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Laxdaela saga is a 13th century Icelandic saga, telling the story of the people in the Breiðafjörður area from the late 9th century to the early 11th century. The saga tells of a love triangle between Guðrún Ósvífrsdóttir, Kjartan Ólafsson and Bolli Þorleiksson. Kjartan and Bolli are two lads who are close friends but they both love Guðrún which causes hatred between them and results in tragedy. Numerous ancient manuscripts contain this saga, dating back to the fourteenth century and it is second only to the Njáls saga in the number of medieval manuscripts preserved. Laxd¿la saga is a popular story because of its poetic beauty and pathetic sentiment.This version contains an illustration and the original marginal sub-headings interweaved in the text.

"He is strikingly original, and in the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time hasalmost invented a form of his own." - Edmund Wilson."The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's first and best novel." - Robert McCrum, The Guardian."The delightful entertainment of The Torrents of Spring... is full-blooded comedy, with a sting of satire." - The New York Times."Hemingway remodelled American short fiction." - Michael Reynolds (Hemingway biographer) Ernest Hemingway: Selected Works is a brilliantly varied collection. Three Stories and Ten Poems was Hemingway's first book; critic Edmund Wilson describes the writing as of "the first distinction;" biographer James Mellow considers it one of Hemingway's early masterpieces. Hemingway remodelled American short fiction; In Our Time is one of the most important twentieth-century collections of short stories. The Sun Also Rises, perhaps Hemingway's best novel, perfectly captures the period between World War I and the Great Depression. It made Hemingway a celebrity. Young women began to emulate Brett, the heroine, while male students at Ivy League universities wanted to become "Hemingway heroes." The Torrents of Spring, a comedy, sets out to amuse, and this it does. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and hunter. He was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his mastery of the art of narrative ... and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style." His economical and understated style-using what he termed "the iceberg theory" or "the theory of omission"-has had a strong influence on twentieth-century fiction. Many of his novels are considered classics of American literature. Writer Richard Ford calls Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner "the Three Kings who set the measure for every writer since."

"He is strikingly original, and in the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time hasalmost invented a form of his own." - Edmund Wilson."The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's first and best novel." - Robert McCrum, The Guardian."The delightful entertainment of The Torrents of Spring... is full-blooded comedy, with a sting of satire." - The New York Times."Hemingway remodelled American short fiction." - Michael Reynolds (Hemingway biographer) Ernest Hemingway: Selected Works is a brilliantly varied collection. Three Stories and Ten Poems was Hemingway's first book; critic Edmund Wilson describes the writing as of "the first distinction;" biographer James Mellow considers it one of Hemingway's early masterpieces. Hemingway remodelled American short fiction; In Our Time is one of the most important twentieth-century collections of short stories. The Sun Also Rises, perhaps Hemingway's best novel, perfectly captures the period between World War I and the Great Depression. It made Hemingway a celebrity. Young women began to emulate Brett, the heroine, while male students at Ivy League universities wanted to become "Hemingway heroes." The Torrents of Spring, a comedy, sets out to amuse, and this it does. Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American journalist, novelist, short-story writer, and hunter. He was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature for "his mastery of the art of narrative ... and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style." His economical and understated style-using what he termed "the iceberg theory" or "the theory of omission"-has had a strong influence on twentieth-century fiction. Many of his novels are considered classics of American literature. Writer Richard Ford calls Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner "the Three Kings who set the measure for every writer since."

Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India is a lyrical account of Anita Mathias's turbulent Roman Catholic childhood in India.Mathias grew up in Jamshedpur, North India, "The Steel City," a company town benevolently run by the Zoroastrians of Tata Steel. The Catholic church, run by American Jesuits, provided an all-encompassing world. In a pre-TV world, visiting friends was entertainment, juicy gossip flowed with homemade wine, and children sang, danced, and recited for guests.Reading was a way of escaping volatile fights with her mother-fairy tales, Greek myths, Norse myths, Indian epics in children's editions and British children's classics. Libraries were a refuge.Mathias, irrepressible and rebellious, known as "the naughtiest girl in the school," was expelled from school, aged nine, for disrupting classes with mischief and attempts at running away, and went to a boarding school, St. Mary's Convent, Nainital, run by German nuns in the Himalayas. The virtual end of childhood-and a new adventure.A beautifully written account of a childhood. The textures, colours and, above all, the tastes of a particular world are lyrically but also precisely evoked. But, although Mathias rightly celebrates the richness of that world, she weaves through this magical remembrance of things past a skein of sadness that makes it haunting. It's lovely! Francesca Kay, An Equal StillnessA dazzling, vibrant tale of "the naughtiest girl in school," whose sweet tooth is exceeded only by her insatiable appetite for language and stories. Mathias conjures India and her extended family in uproarious and heart-breaking detail. Erin Hart, Haunted GroundMathias invites us into a totally absorbing world of past and present marvels, generously laced with poetic and literary references and Dickensian levels of observation and detail. A beautifully written, important, and addictive book. Jenny Lewis, Gilgamesh RetoldIn Mathias's beautiful childhood memoir, one of her childhood tortures is family rosary-saying, and whenever there is trouble with her parents, she plunges into her hugely wide-ranging reading. Tormented, passionate and often sad, this book is immensely readable. Trevor Mostyn, Coming of Age in The Middle EastA remarkable account of a Catholic childhood in India. A treasure chest of sights, sounds and scents, it is full of food (always food), books (always books), and a family with all its alliances and divisions. A feat of memory and remembrance. Philip Gooden, The Story of EnglishJoining intelligent winsomeness with an engaging style, Anita Mathias writes with keen observation, lively insight and hard-earned wisdom about navigating the life of thoughtful faith in a world of cultural complexities. Her words sing of a spirit strong in courage, compassion and a pervasive dedication to the adventure of life. A beautifully told and powerful story. Carolyn Weber, Surprised by OxfordWith glorious detail, precision and humour. Mathias reveals her evolution from naughty girl to writer-the independent spirit and artist of language so deliciously demonstrated here. Professor Jane Spiro, Testimony of FlightMathias's pluck and charm shine through every page of this beautifully crafted, comprehensive, and erudite memoir. Ray Foulk, Picasso's RevengeMathias's prose is lively and evocative. An enjoyable and accessible book. Sylvia Vetta, Sculpting the ElephantA fascinating description of Mathias's parents, education, and religious bringing. She is an accomplished writer. Merryn Willi

"We are trembling on the verge of one of the great ages of English literature." - Virginia Woolf."Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. ... It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." (Michael Cunningham, The Hours.)"It is absolutely unafraid... Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path." (E. M. Forster, on The Journey Out.)"No plainer manifestation of the modernist trend in contemporary English fiction may be found than in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room." - The New York Times."Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call 'consciousness'." - The GuardianThe Early Novels.: The Voyage Out, Night and Day, Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway"Mrs Dalloway ... a book for a lifetime" -- Christine Dwyer Hickey.Virginia Woolf was one of the most influential modernist writers. This volume collects four of her novels and displays her developing genius. The Voyage Out, her first novel, "captures so brilliantly the excitement of youth," and first introduces the character, Clarissa Dalloway. In Night and Day, a traditional novel with two intersecting love triangles, Woolf innovatively portrays marriage as a partnership between equals. Jacob's Room is Woolf's first experimental novel, while the semi-autobiographical Mrs Dalloway is probably Woolf's most popular novel.Virginia Woolf was a luminous novelist, a prolific essayist and book reviewer, and a diarist. With her husband Leonard, Woolf established and ran the Hogarth Press which published works by influential modernist writers. In their first five years, they published Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Clive Bell, Roger Fry and Sigmund Freud. Woolf's haunting writing, her feminism, and her revolutionary experiments with points of view and stream of consciousness altered the course of literature.

The foundational text on the philosophy of yoga. A wonderful book to be read over and over again.About two millennia ago, the sage Patanjali synthesized and organized the teachings on yoga from older traditions into an intricately connected sequence of aphorisms. Hindu tradition regards The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as the foundational text of yoga philosophy. The work fell into obscurity from the 12th to the 19th century, returning to prominence only in the late 19th century due to the efforts of the Theosophical Society, and then Swami Vivekananda, and others. This edition, translated by the Sanskrit scholar and Theosophist Charles Johnston, contains the original sutras without the addition of later commentaries. It allows the reader to directly engage with the essence of the philosophy of yoga in English.An edition containing Johnston's commentary is available in paperback (978-1-78943-001-1) and hardback (978-1-78943-003-5).

Antonio de Morga's History of the Philippines is one of the most important works ever written on the Spanish colonization of the Philippines in the sixteenth century and describes in fascinating detail the climate and peoples of the islands. The history also includes accounts of exploration in the Philippines by the English privateer Thomas Candish as well as those of Dutch explorers.