Mar
28
Secrets Of The Da Vinci Code
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Secrets Of The Da Vinci Code
A special issue by U.S. News & World Report
Secrets of the Da Vinci Code brings this unique mystery alive with in-depth commentary by experts - - archaeologists, theologians, art historians, philosophers, and scientists, in combination with beautiful photography and rich illustrations.
An American professor, a beautiful French cryptographer, a respected British Royal and the true origins of Christianity are the essential characters in the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code. It has become a world-wide phenomenon, with over 40 million copies sold, based on its intriguing assertions.
But this 24 hour thrill ride through “pseudo-history” has also ignited a firestorm of questions about religion, sex, the Church, Renaissance art, and even the history of the Western World. Plus, the new Tom Hanks movie has created even more controversy.
So U.S. News & World Report has updated our fascinating in-depth report that answers many of the questions and controversies presented in the original book.
Here are just a few of the stories you’ll find:
Behind the Code. Follow the trail from the Louvre in Paris to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland
All About Mary. Find out if Mary Magdalene was a saint, a sinner, or the wife of Jesus
History’s Greatest Coverup? Discover the Gospels that were hidden for 1,600 years
And much more!
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Mar
28
Great Expectations
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Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.I give Pirrip as my father’s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister - Mrs. Joe Gargery, who married the blacksmith. As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.
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Mar
28
Aesop’s Fables
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Aesop’s Fables
By Aesop
The Cock and the Pearl
A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw. ‘Ho! ho!’ quoth he, ‘that’s for me,’ and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? ‘You may be a treasure,’ quoth Master Cock, ‘to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls.’
Precious things are for those that can prize them.
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Mar
28
Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina
By Leo Tolstoy
From Amazon.com
Some people say Anna Karenina is the single greatest novel ever written, which makes about as much sense to me as trying to determine the world’s greatest color. But there is no doubt that Anna Karenina, generally considered Tolstoy’s best book, is definitely one ripping great read. Anna, miserable in her loveless marriage, does the barely thinkable and succumbs to her desires for the dashing Vronsky. I don’t want to give away the ending, but I will say that 19th-century Russia doesn’t take well to that sort of thing.
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Mar
28
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children’s literature by the English mathematician and author, Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures.
The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson’s friends and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The Wonderland described in the tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children.
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Mar
28
Around the World in 80 Days
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Around the World in 80 Days
By Jules Verne
The story begins at England. We are introduced to Fogg, a very precise man who regularly goes to the Reform Club every evening. At one such visit to the club to play cards, he gets into a conversation with his fellow card players as to whether it is possible to go around the world in eighty days. He believes that it is and is challenged to complete the adventure. This is the beginning of the entire plot and from then on we see how Fogg goes around the world and we witness the amazing adventures that he has with his companions.
The main plot is based on Fogg’s travels, while other such plots merely support the central theme Fix, the detective follows Fogg all over. He believes that Fogg is the bank robber who has robbed a great sum from the bank of England. He puts obstacles in Fogg’s path just so that he can arrest him whenever he gets the warrant from England. The suspicion that Fogg might be a clever gentleman robber is the sub-theme of the book and the author makes the reader also suspicious. Passepartout too wonders whether his master might be a robber though in his heart he has ample trust in Fogg’s integrity.
The plot moves ahead with Fogg striving through various obstacles to reach London in time. He goes through Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York and finally Liverpool. Fix arrests Fogg at Liverpool and this delays our hero. He thinks that he has missed the deadline and hasn’t reached London in time when in reality he reached a full day earlier. Thus Fogg wins the wager and in the course of his travels, finds himself a worthy charming, beautiful wife too.
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Mar
28
Crime and Punishment
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Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment is a novel written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. First published in a journal named The Russian Messenger, it appeared in twelve monthly installments in 1866,[1] and was later published as a novel. Along with Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, the novel is considered one of the best-known and most influential Russian novels of all time.
Crime and Punishment focuses on Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who formulates a plan to kill and rob a hated pawnbroker, thereby solving his money problems and at the same time ridding the world of her evil. Exhibiting some symptoms of megalomania, Raskolnikov thinks himself a gifted man, similar to Napoleon.
As an extraordinary man, he feels justified in his decision to murder, since he exists outside the moral constraints that affect “ordinary” people. However, immediately after the crime, Raskolnikov becomes ill, and is troubled by the memory of his actions. Crime and Punishment portrays Raskolnikov’s gradual realisation of his crime and his growing desire to confess. Moreover, Raskolnikov’s attempts to protect his sister Dunya from unappealing suitors, and also his unexpected love for a destitute prostitute demonstrate Raskolnikov’s longing for redemption.
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Mar
28
Three Ghost Stories
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Three Ghost Stories
by Charles Dickens
Includes: The Signal-Man, The Haunted-House, The Trial For Murder.
This is just one of hundreds of classic, inspirational, and reference works publishing by Packard Technologies. We are publishing dozens of new ebooks for the Mobipocket Reader every week. So, check back often to see what’s new.
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Mar
28
Emma by Jane Austen
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Emma by Jane Austen
“I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like.”
Emma (1816) is Jane Austen’s comic masterpiece in which Emma Woodhouse finds her match-making skills sadly misdirected as she learns humility and self-knowledge at the same time as she discovers love. This edition features a new Introduction by Penelope Fitzgerald which examines the pleasure given by Emma’s reassuringly stable world as well as by its comedy, and examines the relationships, imagery, and continuing power of Austen’s last and perhaps greatest novel.
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Mar
28
Andersen’s Fairy Tales
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales
by Hans Christian Andersen
Many years ago, there was an Emperor, who was so excessively fond of new clothes, that he spent all his money in dress. He did not trouble himself in the least about his soldiers; nor did he care to go either to the theatre or the chase, except for the opportunities then afforded him for displaying his new clothes. He had a different suit for each hour of the day; and as of any other king or emperor, one is accustomed to say, ‘he is sitting in council,’ it was always said of him, ‘The Emperor is sitting in his wardrobe.’
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