Category: Top 100 Books

Rank: 2 – 2

A Doll’s House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen’s plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities. The play was highly controversial when first published, as it is sharply critical of 19th Century marriage norms. It follows the formula of well-made play up until the final act, when it breaks convention by ending with a discussion, not an unravelling. It is often called the first true feminist play, although Ibsen denied this.

Book Overview:

• Original title: A Doll’s House
• Author: Henrik Ibsen
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1482796902
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2013-03-18
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013-03-18
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 66
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2013-03-18
• Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Rank: 3 – 3

Set amid the revolution of 1848, Flaubert’s masterpiece combines political and social upheaval with scrutiny of individual motives in a compelling blend of romance, history, and satire.

Book Overview:

• Original title: Sentimental Education (Penguin Classics)
• Author: Gustave Flaubert
• Creator: Robert Baldick
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 140441417
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 1974-01-31
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1974-01-31
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Pages: 432
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 1974-01-31
• Studio: Penguin Classics

Rank: 4 – 4

Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner’s mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land, marriage, children. But in after the chaos of Civil War, secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for.

Book Overview:

• Original title: Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage Classics)
• Author: William Faulkner
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 99475111
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Mass Market Paperback
• Release date: 1995-01-19
• Manufacturer: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 1995-01-19
• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Pages: 384
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 1995-01-19
• Studio: Vintage Classics

Rank: 5 – 5

Huckleberry Finn has just been adopted by the Widow Douglass and her sister, and both are committed to changing Huck’s “uncivilized” ways. Clean clothes, good manners, and steady church and school attendance are more than Huck can take. But when he is kidnapped by his drunken father, Huck’s return to life without rules doesn’t seem much better. He escapes and meets Jim, a runaway slave, and together the two travel the Mississippi River on a raft, heading toward Jim’s freedom. This unabridged version of Mark Twain’s classic American tale—a follow-up to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer—is taken from the 1885 copyright edition and includes original illustrations by Edward W. Kemble.

Book Overview:

• Original title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Young Reading)
• Author: Rob Lloyd Jones
• Creator: Andy Elkerton
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1409564401
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Hardcover
• Release date: 2015-04-01
• Manufacturer: Usborne Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2015-04-01
• Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
• Pages: 64
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2015-04-01
• Studio: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Rank: 6 – 6

A guide to reading “The Aeneid” with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author’s life, and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

Book Overview:

• Original title: The Aeneid (Wordsworth Classics)
• Author: Virgil
• Creator: Michael J. Oakley
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1853262633
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 1995-08-05
• Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1995-08-05
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Pages: 416
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 1995-08-05
• Studio: Wordsworth Editions

Rank: 8 – 8

THE CLASSIC NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING TONI MORRISON It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece. Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction

Book Overview:

• Original title: Beloved (Vintage Classics)
• Author: Toni Morrison
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 99511657
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2007-12-06
• Manufacturer: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2007-12-06
• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Pages: 352
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2007-12-06
• Studio: Vintage Classics

Rank: 9 – 9

Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in the treatment of nervous diseases. Along with his experiences as a psychiatrist in the workers’ quarter of Berlin, his writing was inspired by the work of Holderlin, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and was first published in the literary magazine, Der Sturm. Associated with the Expressionist literary movement in Germany, he is now recognized as on of the most important modern European novelists. Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of the masterpieces of modern European literature and the first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf, who, on being released from prison, is confronted with the poverty, unemployment, crime and burgeoning Nazism of 1920s Germany. As Franz struggles to survive in this world, fate teases him with a little pleasure before cruelly turning on him. Foreword by Alexander Stephan Translated by Eugene Jolas>

Book Overview:

• Original title: Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Author: Alfred Doblin
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1681371995
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2018-03-06
• Manufacturer: New York Review of Books
• Publication date: 2018-03-06
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Pages: 502
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2018-03-06
• Studio: New York Review of Books

Rank: 10 – 10

This book presents a selection of papers from the 2017 World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST’17), held between the 11st and 13th of April 2017 at Porto Santo Island, Madeira, Portugal. WorldCIST is a global forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss recent results and innovations, current trends, professional experiences and challenges involved in modern Information Systems and Technologies research, together with technological developments and applications. The main topics covered are: Information and Knowledge Management; Organizational Models and Information Systems; Software and Systems Modeling; Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools; Multimedia Systems and Applications; Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems; Intelligent and Decision Support Systems; Big Data Analytics and Applications; Human–Computer Interaction; Ethics, Computers & Security; Health Informatics; Information Technologies in Education; and Information Technologies in Radiocommunications.

Book Overview:

• Original title: Blindness (Vintage Classics)
• Author: José Saramago
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 009957358X
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2013-04-04
• Manufacturer: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2013-04-04
• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Pages: 320
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2013-04-04
• Studio: Vintage Classics

Rank: 11 – 11

A prize-winning international classic, first published in English in 1993, now with a new foreword by William Boyd.

Book Overview:

• Original title: The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
• Author: Fernando Pessoa
• Creator: Margaret Jull Costa
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1781255695
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Hardcover
• Release date: 2017-08-17
• Manufacturer: Serpent’s Tail
• Publication date: 2017-08-17
• Publisher: Serpent’s Tail
• Pages: 432
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2017-08-17
• Studio: Serpent’s Tail

Rank: 12 – 12

The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in the United States represent a much smaller proportion of the workforce than they do in countries such as Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, these immigrants have an important role in spurring innovation and economic growth in all countries and filling shortages in the domestic labor supply. This report summarizes the proceedings of a Fall 2014 workshop that focused on how immigration policy can be used to attract and retain foreign talent. Participants compared policies on encouraging migration and retention of skilled workers, attracting qualified foreign students and retaining them post-graduation, and input by states or provinces in immigration policies to add flexibility in countries with regional employment differences, among other topics. They also discussed how immigration policies have changed over time in response to undesired labor market outcomes and whether there was sufficient data to measure those outcomes.

Book Overview:

• Original title: Improvisation Audition Secrets for Actors: Learn 4 Lost Principles from Master Improvisers to Book More Jobs (Audition Monologues, Confidence, Acting Books, Acting Career, Acting Agent)
• Author: Israel Savage
• Creator: Scotty Watson
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: B01GWAT87C
• Product type: ABIS_EBOOKS
• Type: Kindle Edition
• Release date: 2016-06-09
• Manufacturer: IN Studios
• Publication date: 2016-06-09
• Publisher: IN Studios
• Pages: 44
• Product group: eBooks
• Release date: 2016-06-09
• Studio: IN Studios

Rank: 13 – 13

Clear and compelling new readings of Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel.

Book Overview:

• Original title: The Brothers Karamazov
• Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Creator: Larissa Volokhonsky
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 99922800
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 1992-01-16
• Manufacturer: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 1992-01-16
• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Pages: 816
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 1992-01-16
• Studio: Vintage Classics

Rank: 14 – 14

Thomas Mann’s first novel, Buddenbrooks, is drawn from his own life and experience. Subtitled The Decline of a Family, his story of a prosperous Hanseatic merchant family and their gradual disintegration is also an extraordinary portrayal of the transition from the stable bourgeois life of the nineteenth century to a modern uncertainty.

Book Overview:

• Original title: Buddenbrooks
• Author: Thomas Mann
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 3596294312
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 1991-04-01
• Manufacturer: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
• Publication date: 1991-04-01
• Publisher: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH
• Pages: 768
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 1991-04-01
• Studio: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

Rank: 15 – 15

Each book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to students’ understanding, comments to explain literacy and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.

Book Overview:

• Original title: The Canterbury Tales
• Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1534671064
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2016-06-13
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016-06-13
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 374
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2016-06-13
• Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Rank: 16 – 16

Explains how to take advantage of Google’s user interface, discussing how to filter results, use Google’s special services, integrate Google applications into a Web site or Weblog, write information retrieval programs, and play games.

Book Overview:

• Original title: The Castle
• Author: Skye Warren
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: B01N148JTY
• Product type: ABIS_EBOOKS
• Type: Kindle Edition
• Release date: 2017-04-04
• Manufacturer: NA
• Publication date: 2017-04-04
• Publisher: NA
• Pages: 300
• Product group: eBooks
• Release date: 2017-04-04
• Studio: NA

Rank: 17 – 17

In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change. It is also a book on self-confidence and presents different ways to self-knowledge and cultural individuality. Published in print for the first time, these studies and penetrating observations on topical issues, written by leading authors and intellectuals from many distant countries, make up one of the most intriguing and engaging avowals of our time. The Nobel Laureates are: Sir V S Naipaul (United Kingdom, born in Trinidad) Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) Derek Walcott (St Lucia) Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) Patrick White (Australia) Ernest Hemingway (USA) Grazia Deledda (Sardinia, Italy) Amartya Sen (United Kingdom and the USA, born in India) Rabindranath Tagore (India) Nelson Mandela (South Africa) Contents:Two Worlds (V S Naipaul)The Enigma of Arrival (V S Naipaul)Writing and Being (N Gordimer)Nadine Gordimer and the South African Experience (P Wästberg)A Single, Homeless, Circling Satellite — Derek Walcott (J Mjöberg)The Antilles — Fragments of Epic Memory (D Walcott)Naguib Mahfouz — The Son of Two Civilizations (A Hallengren)Autobiography (P White)Patrick White — Existential Explorer (K Hansson)A Case of Identity: Ernest Hemingway (A Hallengren)Voice of Sardegna — Grazia Deledda (A Hallengren)Autobiography (A Sen)Tagore and His India (A Sen)Nelson Mandela and the Rainbow of Culture (A Hallengren) Readership: General. Keywords:Nobel Laureates;Nobel Essays;Biographies;Cultures

Book Overview:

• Original title: Children of Gebelawi
• Author: Naguib Mahfouz
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 894106546
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: NA
• Manufacturer: Three Continents Press
• Publication date: 1988-01-01
• Publisher: Three Continents Press
• Pages: 355
• Product group: Book
• Release date: NA
• Studio: Three Continents Press

Rank: 18 – 18

A collection of short stories by a poet, critic and writer, translated into a single volume. Includes THE UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INIQUITY, FICCIONES, THE ALEPH and SHAKESPEARE’S MEMORY.

Book Overview:

• Original title: Collected Fictions
• Author: Jorge Luis Borges
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 140286802
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 1999-09-30
• Manufacturer: Penguin
• Publication date: 1999-09-30
• Publisher: Penguin
• Pages: 576
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 1999-09-30
• Studio: Penguin

Rank: 19 – 19

From the prize-winning poet: “A stunning volume . . . A master of the understatement, Matthews is wryly philosophical and self-deprecating.” —Booklist When William Matthews died, the day after his fifty-fifth birthday, America lost one of its most important poets, one whose humor and wit were balanced by deep emotion, whose off-the-cuff inventiveness belied the acuity of his verse. Drawing from his eleven collections and including twenty-three previously unpublished poems, Search Party is the essential compilation of this beloved poet’s work. Edited by his son, Sebastian Matthews, and William Matthews’s friend and fellow poet Stanley Plumly (who also introduces the book), Search Party is an excellent introduction to the poet and his glistening riffs on twentieth-century topics from basketball to food to jazz.

Book Overview:

• Original title: Complete Poems
• Author: Emily Dickinson
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1546394281
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2017-11-17
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017-11-17
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 56
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2017-11-17
• Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Rank: 20 – 20

Douglas Pike, an eminent authority on Southeast Asia and particularly on Vietnam, wrote: “Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan is a highly respected economist and political thinker. Even perhaps for our purpose here, he is a man of great breadth of view, a philosopher in the true meaning of the word…” In America Coming to Terms, Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan addresses himself to the central issue of the Vietnam War. This ambitious study seeks to place the U.S. involvement in Vietnam into the broader context of American and world history. The legacy of the Vietnam War remains a critical topic, particularly with the war in Iraq generating the specter of conflicting partisan politics in a deeply divided country. America’s involvement in Vietnam was misunderstood at the time and is still misrepresented now. As the Iraq War often invites comparisons with the Vietnam War, a full understanding of the U.S. experience in Vietnam is essential. More importantly, lessons learned from Vietnam can be applied to Iraq at present as well as to any U.S. conflict in the future. America Coming to Terms will help the American public to better understand the real legacy of the Vietnam War. It will provide Americans – liberal as well as conservative, Democrat as well as Republican – with substantive reasons to be united and to be proud of America. Most importantly, it will meaningfully impact the writing of American history for future generations and change for the better the world’s perception of the American people and of America. Steven Hayward, a most distinguished scholar wrote: “Revisionist historians two or three generations from now are likely to begin making the argument that the United States won the ultimate victory in the Vietnam War, and that it should be seen as the turning point in the Cold War…” In America Coming to Terms, Dr. Tuan set the record straight that – notwithstanding a number of mistakes that were committed – not only America won the Cold War but, ultimately, also won the Vietnam War.

Book Overview:

• Original title: Complete Stories
• Author: Flannery O’Connor
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 571245781
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2009-04-02
• Manufacturer: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2009-04-02
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Pages: 576
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2009-04-02
• Studio: Faber & Faber

Rank: 21 – 21

Responding to the newly-emerging trend of organisations hiring journalists to create content on their behalf, Brand Journalism is the first comprehensive, practical guide to this hybrid form of traditional journalism, marketing and public relations. This textbook takes a direct and practical approach to the subject, showing journalists and journalism students how they can apply their skills to working for a brand, and showing those who work for non-media organisations how their organisation can acquire the skills necessary to become a multimedia publisher. Areas covered include: • Establishing the audience your brand wants to engage with • Identifying your organisation’s business goals • Developing a brand journalism strategy to help deliver those business goals • Measuring the results of your brand journalism strategy The book also features a wealth of case studies on the subject and offers an invaluable companion website – www.brand-journalism.co.uk.

Book Overview:

• Original title: The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
• Author: Edgar Allan Poe
• Creator: NA
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1937994430
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Hardcover
• Release date: 2014-02-15
• Manufacturer: Race Point Publishing
• Publication date: 2014-02-15
• Publisher: Race Point Publishing
• Pages: 888
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2014-02-15
• Studio: Race Point Publishing

Rank: 22 – 22

Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in question belongs to Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who is writing his confessions at the behest of his psychiatrist. Here are Zeno’s interminable attempts to quit smoking, his courtship of the beautiful yet unresponsive Ada, his unexpected–and unexpectedly happy–marriage to Ada’s homely sister Augusta, and his affair with a shrill-voiced aspiring singer. Relating these misadventures with wry wit and a perspicacity at once unblinking and compassionate, Zeno’s Conscience is a miracle of psychological realism.

Book Overview:

• Original title: Confessions of Zeno
• Author: Italo Svevo
• Creator: MaryMarc Translations
• Salesrank:
• ASIN: 1494988356
• Product type: ABIS_BOOK
• Type: Paperback
• Release date: 2014-01-12
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014-01-12
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Pages: 412
• Product group: Book
• Release date: 2014-01-12
• Studio: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform