Klassikot
Ajaton viisaus ja elämää muuttavat tarinat odottavat näissä kestävissä teoksissa, jotka ovat muovanneet ihmiskunnan ajattelua ja kulttuuria sukupolvien ajan. Nämä syvälliset kirjat tutkivat elämän syvimpiä kysymyksiä unohtumattomien hahmojen, filosofisten oivallusten ja yleismaailmallisten totuuksien kautta, jotka puhuttelevat lukijoita yhä tänäkin päivänä.
Klassikot Kirjayhteenvedot
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
A genius who reads men from a bootprint solves London's darkest crimes, his doctor chronicling.
Klassikot
Mysteeri
Novellit
Rikos
Dekkari
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
A genius who reads men from a bootprint solves London's darkest crimes, his doctor chronicling.
Klassikot
Mysteeri
Novellit
Rikos
Dekkari
Avalonin sumut
Morgaine, Avalon's priestess, watches her brother Arthur's reign erase the Goddess she serves.
Fantasia
Historiallinen fiktio
Mytologia
Klassikot
Uudelleenkerronnat
Avalonin sumut
Morgaine, Avalon's priestess, watches her brother Arthur's reign erase the Goddess she serves.
Fantasia
Historiallinen fiktio
Mytologia
Klassikot
Uudelleenkerronnat
The Vendor of Sweets
His son returns from America with a book-making machine, shattering a sweet vendor's Gandhian peace.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Intia
Klassikot
Perhe
Huumori
The Vendor of Sweets
His son returns from America with a book-making machine, shattering a sweet vendor's Gandhian peace.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Intia
Klassikot
Perhe
Huumori
Long-Distance Real Estate Investing
A free Black man is drugged, kidnapped, and sold. Twelve years later, a letter changes everything.
Historia
Elämäkerrat
Muistelmat
Klassikot
Afroamerikkalainen
Long-Distance Real Estate Investing
A free Black man is drugged, kidnapped, and sold. Twelve years later, a letter changes everything.
Historia
Elämäkerrat
Muistelmat
Klassikot
Afroamerikkalainen
Maailma Garpin mukaan
His nurse mother seized motherhood alone. Garp grew into a writer the world fatally misread.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Huumori
Perhe
Maailma Garpin mukaan
His nurse mother seized motherhood alone. Garp grew into a writer the world fatally misread.
Kaunokirjallisuus
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Huumori
Perhe
Nervous Conditions
A Rhodesian farm girl inherits her dead brother's education and learns it demands a new self.
Afrikka
Historiallinen fiktio
Feminismi
Klassikot
Kaunokirjallisuus
Nervous Conditions
A Rhodesian farm girl inherits her dead brother's education and learns it demands a new self.
Afrikka
Historiallinen fiktio
Feminismi
Klassikot
Kaunokirjallisuus
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
A 1927 recording pits Ma Rainey against her ambitious trumpeter, white producers holding the keys.
Näytelmät
Draama
Historiallinen fiktio
Afroamerikkalainen
Klassikot
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
A 1927 recording pits Ma Rainey against her ambitious trumpeter, white producers holding the keys.
Näytelmät
Draama
Historiallinen fiktio
Afroamerikkalainen
Klassikot
Benito Cereno
An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.
Klassikot
Novellit
Amerikkalainen
Kirjallisuus
1800-luku
Benito Cereno
An American captain boards a Spanish slave ship in chaos, sensing danger but misreading every sign.
Klassikot
Novellit
Amerikkalainen
Kirjallisuus
1800-luku
My Religion - What I Believe
Jesus didn't teach about an afterlife. He taught nonresistance, poverty, and building heaven now.
Filosofia
Uskonto
Henkisyys
Kristinusko
Kristillinen
My Religion - What I Believe
Jesus didn't teach about an afterlife. He taught nonresistance, poverty, and building heaven now.
Filosofia
Uskonto
Henkisyys
Kristinusko
Kristillinen
On the Beach
The last humans garden, race Ferraris, and fall in love as a radioactive cloud approaches.
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Klassikot
Postapokalyptinen
Apokalyptinen
Dystopia
On the Beach
The last humans garden, race Ferraris, and fall in love as a radioactive cloud approaches.
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Klassikot
Postapokalyptinen
Apokalyptinen
Dystopia
Keskiyön lapset
Born at the stroke of India's independence, Saleem Sinai finds his fate chained to the nation's.
Maaginen realismi
Historiallinen fiktio
Intia
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Keskiyön lapset
Born at the stroke of India's independence, Saleem Sinai finds his fate chained to the nation's.
Maaginen realismi
Historiallinen fiktio
Intia
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
We the Living
An engineer in Soviet Russia guards a forbidden love, defying the state that would crush her.
Klassikot
Historiallinen fiktio
Filosofia
Kirjallisuus
Kaunokirjallisuus
We the Living
An engineer in Soviet Russia guards a forbidden love, defying the state that would crush her.
Klassikot
Historiallinen fiktio
Filosofia
Kirjallisuus
Kaunokirjallisuus
Villette
A lonely English teacher in Belgium finds love and a ghost haunting her boarding school.
Klassikot
Goottilaisuus
Viktoriaaninen
1800-luku
Kirjallisuus
Villette
A lonely English teacher in Belgium finds love and a ghost haunting her boarding school.
Klassikot
Goottilaisuus
Viktoriaaninen
1800-luku
Kirjallisuus
A Man Without a Country
America as failed empire, Earth as casualty, laughter as survival: Vonnegut's final dispatch.
Esseet
Muistelmat
Huumori
Politiikka
Filosofia
A Man Without a Country
America as failed empire, Earth as casualty, laughter as survival: Vonnegut's final dispatch.
Esseet
Muistelmat
Huumori
Politiikka
Filosofia
Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy
A wrong number draws a crime novelist into a fake detective case that erases his self.
Sarjakuvaromaanit
Sarjakuvat
Mysteeri
Kaunokirjallisuus
Klassikot
Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy
A wrong number draws a crime novelist into a fake detective case that erases his self.
Sarjakuvaromaanit
Sarjakuvat
Mysteeri
Kaunokirjallisuus
Klassikot
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Doubt all you know, arrive at the one truth you cannot deny, and build reality from there.
Filosofia
Klassikot
Tiede
Psykologia
Uskonto
Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Doubt all you know, arrive at the one truth you cannot deny, and build reality from there.
Filosofia
Klassikot
Tiede
Psykologia
Uskonto
The Arabian Nights
A bride delays her execution by spinning stories a murderous sultan cannot bear to leave unfinished.
Klassikot
Fantasia
Novellit
Folklore
Mytologia
The Arabian Nights
A bride delays her execution by spinning stories a murderous sultan cannot bear to leave unfinished.
Klassikot
Fantasia
Novellit
Folklore
Mytologia
The Counterfeiters
Learning he's a bastard, a student flees his bourgeois life and stumbles into a novelist's fiction.
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Romaanit
Ranska
1900-luku
The Counterfeiters
Learning he's a bastard, a student flees his bourgeois life and stumbles into a novelist's fiction.
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Romaanit
Ranska
1900-luku
I Capture the Castle
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra's journal of castle life is upended when two wealthy brothers arrive.
Kasvutarina
Klassikot
Nuortenkirjallisuus
Historiallinen fiktio
Romantiikka
I Capture the Castle
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra's journal of castle life is upended when two wealthy brothers arrive.
Kasvutarina
Klassikot
Nuortenkirjallisuus
Historiallinen fiktio
Romantiikka
How We Think
One grid, thirteen virtues, a lifetime of revisions: the system that built a founding father.
Klassikot
Omaelämäkerta
Filosofia
Itseapu
Elämäkerrat
How We Think
One grid, thirteen virtues, a lifetime of revisions: the system that built a founding father.
Klassikot
Omaelämäkerta
Filosofia
Itseapu
Elämäkerrat
The War of the End of the World
A prophet's city rises in the Brazilian desert. The Republic sends four armies to destroy it.
Historiallinen fiktio
Kirjallisuus
Kaunokirjallisuus
Klassikot
Sota
The War of the End of the World
A prophet's city rises in the Brazilian desert. The Republic sends four armies to destroy it.
Historiallinen fiktio
Kirjallisuus
Kaunokirjallisuus
Klassikot
Sota
Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters
The screenwriting manual hiding inside a 2,300-year-old Greek text, decoded for your next draft.
Elokuva
Kirjoittaminen
Filosofia
Tietokirjat
Taide
Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters
The screenwriting manual hiding inside a 2,300-year-old Greek text, decoded for your next draft.
Elokuva
Kirjoittaminen
Filosofia
Tietokirjat
Taide
Planet of the Apes
A journalist stranded among intelligent apes must outwit his captors before he becomes a specimen.
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Dystopia
Klassikot
Spekulatiivinen fiktio
Satiiri
Planet of the Apes
A journalist stranded among intelligent apes must outwit his captors before he becomes a specimen.
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Dystopia
Klassikot
Spekulatiivinen fiktio
Satiiri
The Story of Philosophy
Philosophy's greatest minds, from Plato to Dewey, on the one question science cannot answer.
Filosofia
Historia
Elämäkerrat
Klassikot
Tietokirjat
The Story of Philosophy
Philosophy's greatest minds, from Plato to Dewey, on the one question science cannot answer.
Filosofia
Historia
Elämäkerrat
Klassikot
Tietokirjat
Counterinsurgency Warfare
The guerrilla blends into the population. This book showed armies how to separate the two.
Historia
Sota
Politiikka
International
Hallinto
Counterinsurgency Warfare
The guerrilla blends into the population. This book showed armies how to separate the two.
Historia
Sota
Politiikka
International
Hallinto
Pimeyden sydän
A captain up the Congo finds a rogue ivory trader ruling as a native god.
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Historiallinen fiktio
Afrikka
Kaunokirjallisuus
Pimeyden sydän
A captain up the Congo finds a rogue ivory trader ruling as a native god.
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Historiallinen fiktio
Afrikka
Kaunokirjallisuus
Olemme aina asuneet linnassa
After arsenic killed their family, two sisters guard their decaying mansion with spells and silence.
Kauhu
Klassikot
Goottilaisuus
Kaunokirjallisuus
Mysteeri
Olemme aina asuneet linnassa
After arsenic killed their family, two sisters guard their decaying mansion with spells and silence.
Kauhu
Klassikot
Goottilaisuus
Kaunokirjallisuus
Mysteeri
Girl, Interrupted
One interview. A locked ward. Two years of asking who gets to define a woman's sanity.
Muistelmat
Mielenterveys
Mielenterveys
Psykologia
Klassikot
Girl, Interrupted
One interview. A locked ward. Two years of asking who gets to define a woman's sanity.
Muistelmat
Mielenterveys
Mielenterveys
Psykologia
Klassikot
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Firemen don't put out fires. They burn books. And the public gave them the matches willingly.
Klassikot
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Dystopia
Kirjallisuus
Filosofia
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Firemen don't put out fires. They burn books. And the public gave them the matches willingly.
Klassikot
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Dystopia
Kirjallisuus
Filosofia
Kaksi tornia
Frodo and Sam trust Gollum to reach Mordor. Aragorn defends a kingdom against a corrupted wizard.
Fantasia
Klassikot
High Fantasy
Eeppinen fantasia
Seikkailu
Kaksi tornia
Frodo and Sam trust Gollum to reach Mordor. Aragorn defends a kingdom against a corrupted wizard.
Fantasia
Klassikot
High Fantasy
Eeppinen fantasia
Seikkailu
Heidän silmänsä katsoivat Jumalaa
She returned to town in overalls, the story of three husbands and a hurricane inside her.
Klassikot
Historiallinen fiktio
Kirjallisuus
Kaunokirjallisuus
Afroamerikkalainen
Heidän silmänsä katsoivat Jumalaa
She returned to town in overalls, the story of three husbands and a hurricane inside her.
Klassikot
Historiallinen fiktio
Kirjallisuus
Kaunokirjallisuus
Afroamerikkalainen
Chariots of the Gods
Ancient gods were alien visitors. Evidence sits in pyramids, the Bible, and giant desert runways.
Historia
Alienit
Paranormaali
Tiede
Mytologia
Chariots of the Gods
Ancient gods were alien visitors. Evidence sits in pyramids, the Bible, and giant desert runways.
Historia
Alienit
Paranormaali
Tiede
Mytologia
Uljas uusi maailma ja Paluu uljaaseen uuteen maailmaan
Nietzsche needed a doctor for his body. The doctor needed Nietzsche for his soul.
Filosofia
Psykologia
Mielenterveys
Itseapu
Klassikot
Uljas uusi maailma ja Paluu uljaaseen uuteen maailmaan
Nietzsche needed a doctor for his body. The doctor needed Nietzsche for his soul.
Filosofia
Psykologia
Mielenterveys
Itseapu
Klassikot
Vathek
An impious caliph sells his soul for a demon's promise of a subterranean palace of fire.
Goottilaisuus
Kauhu
Synkkä fantasia
Fantasia
Yliluonnollinen
Vathek
An impious caliph sells his soul for a demon's promise of a subterranean palace of fire.
Goottilaisuus
Kauhu
Synkkä fantasia
Fantasia
Yliluonnollinen
The Bell
A lay community beside a convent buries its desires in prayer until an old bell sounds.
Klassikot
Kaunokirjallisuus
Romaanit
Uskonto
Kirjallisuus
The Bell
A lay community beside a convent buries its desires in prayer until an old bell sounds.
Klassikot
Kaunokirjallisuus
Romaanit
Uskonto
Kirjallisuus
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
School's hidden curriculum is obedience. The real subject: learning what to disbelieve.
Kasvatus
Opetus
Filosofia
Sosiologia
Psykologia
Teaching as a Subversive Activity
School's hidden curriculum is obedience. The real subject: learning what to disbelieve.
Kasvatus
Opetus
Filosofia
Sosiologia
Psykologia
Twelve Years a Slave
Drugged and chained, a free New York violinist begins twelve years as a Louisiana slave.
Historia
Klassikot
Muistelmat
Elämäkerrat
Rotu
Twelve Years a Slave
Drugged and chained, a free New York violinist begins twelve years as a Louisiana slave.
Historia
Klassikot
Muistelmat
Elämäkerrat
Rotu
El hombre que calculaba
A calculating prodigy arrives in medieval Baghdad and solves puzzles of camels, bread, and love.
Matematiikka
Klassikot
Historiallinen fiktio
Romaanit
Novellit
El hombre que calculaba
A calculating prodigy arrives in medieval Baghdad and solves puzzles of camels, bread, and love.
Matematiikka
Klassikot
Historiallinen fiktio
Romaanit
Novellit
The House of the Scorpion
A clone raised in a drug empire must escape before the patriarch harvests his heart.
Nuortenkirjallisuus
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Dystopia
Nuoret
Seikkailu
The House of the Scorpion
A clone raised in a drug empire must escape before the patriarch harvests his heart.
Nuortenkirjallisuus
Tieteiskirjallisuus
Dystopia
Nuoret
Seikkailu
Lord Jim
A young seaman abandons a pilgrim ship in panic. It survives; his shame defines his life.
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Kaunokirjallisuus
Seikkailu
Romaanit
Lord Jim
A young seaman abandons a pilgrim ship in panic. It survives; his shame defines his life.
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Kaunokirjallisuus
Seikkailu
Romaanit
The Custom of the Country
A small-town beauty carries herself into old New York, where acceptance only sharpens her appetite.
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Historiallinen fiktio
Amerikkalainen
1900-luku
The Custom of the Country
A small-town beauty carries herself into old New York, where acceptance only sharpens her appetite.
Klassikot
Kirjallisuus
Historiallinen fiktio
Amerikkalainen
1900-luku
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
History's engine is not ideas but the struggle over who controls the tools of survival.
Filosofia
Politiikka
Teoria
Historia
Sosiologia
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
History's engine is not ideas but the struggle over who controls the tools of survival.
Filosofia
Politiikka
Teoria
Historia
Sosiologia
