Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a Lewis Carroll, invented a special writing instrument he called the Nyctograph on 24 September 1891, in frustration at the process of getting out of bed at 2 a.m. in a winter night, lighting a candle, and recording some happy thought which would probably be otherwise forgotten. This edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is written entirely in the author's unique night-time alphabet.

El Profeta es un libro de 26 cap tulos, escrito por el poeta y fil sofo leban s-americano Khalil Gibran. Se public por primera vez en 1923, y es la obra mejor conocida del autor. El Profeta se ha traducido en m s de 100 idiomas, as que es uno de los libros m s traducidos en la historia del mundo. Nunca se ha dejado de imprimir.

El narrativo nos presenta al profeta Almustafa, quien hace doce a os ha esperado su nave, la cual lo llevar a por fin a su patria. Antes de irse, algunos habitantes de la ciudad de Orphalese le piden a l que hable de su conocimiento en varios temas por la ultima vez (H blanos de...). El Profeta relata 26 sermones que tratan de cuestiones b sicas de la vida humana como el amor, el matrimonio, hijos, dando, comiendo y bebiendo, el trabajo, casas, ropa, comprando y vendiendo, el crimen y el castigo, las leyes, la libertad, la raz n y la pasi n, el dolor, el conocimiento de s mismo, ense ando, la amistad, hablando, el tiempo, el bueno y el malo, la oraci n, el placer, la belleza, la religi n, y al fin la muerte. En el cap tulo final, Almustafa entreteje un discurso sobre la misma cuesti n del significado en sus palabras de despedida.

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The Prophet is a book of 26 fables written in English prose poetry by the Lebanese-American poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran. It was first published in 1923 and is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history. It has never been out of print.

The narrative introduces us to the Prophet Almustafa, who has waited twelve years for his ship, which will finally take him back to his homeland. Before leaving, some inhabitants of the city of Orphalese ask him to convey to them his insights on various topics for the last time (Speak to us of...). The Prophet relates 26 sermons that deal with basic questions of human life, such as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punish-ment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and finally death. In the final chapter, Almustafa interweaves a discussion about the question of meaning into his parting words.

The Ashtavakra Gita, or the Ashtavakra Samhita as it is sometimes called, is a very ancient Sanskrit text. Nothing seems to be known about the author, though tradition ascribes it to the sage Ashtavakra; hence the name.

There is little doubt though that it is very old, probably dating back to the days of the classic Vedanta period. The Sanskrit style and the doctrine expressed would seem to warrant this assessment.

The work was known, appreciated and quoted by Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda, as well as by Ramana Maharshi, while Radha­krishnan always refers to it with great respect. Apart from that the work speaks for itself. It presents the traditional teachings of Advaita Vedanta with a clarity and power very rarely matched.

The Reverend John Henry Richards, MA, BD, was an Anglican priest born in 1934 who was ordained a deacon in Llandaff in 1977 and a priest there in 1978. He served in Maesteg, Cardiff, Penmark, and Stackpile Elidor until his retirement in 1999, and died in 2017. He is known for his English translations of the Ashtavakra Gita, the Dhammapada, and the Vivekachudamani, which he put in the public domain and distributed on the Internet in 1994. The text used here is the one revised in 1996.

The International Phonetic Alphabet is a system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin alphabet. It was devised by the International Phonetic Association as a standardized representation of the sounds of spoken language. The IPA is used by lexicographers, foreign language students and teachers, linguists, speech-language pathologists, singers, actors, constructed language creators, and translators. This edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is written entirely in that same alphabet, with fonts specially designed by Michael Everson. The transcription reflects the standard, regionally-neutral form of spoken British English known as Received Pronunciation. Granted that most linguists agree that not much more than 4% of the population of Britain speak it today, RP was nevertheless traditionally based on educated speech in southern England; it is still widely taught and dictionaries for native speakers and learners of English still make use of it in their transcriptions. Because this is a novel, and meant to be read, it was decided to retain some orthographic features which are not normally kept in phonetic transcription: punctuation, italicization, and capitaliza-tion. Carroll's punctuation has been retained with the exception of the apostrophe marking the genitive (because Duchess's voice just looked wrong as ˈDʌtʃɪs'ɪz vɔɪs). ---- iː ˌꞮntəˈn ʃənl Fəʊˈnetɪk ˈ lfəbɪt ɪz ə ˈsɪstɪm ɒv fəʊˈnetɪk nəʊˈteɪʃən beɪst ˈpraɪmərɪlɪ ɒn ə ˈL tɪn ˈ lfəbɪt. Ɪt wɒz dɪˈvaɪzd baɪ iː ˌꞮntəˈn ʃənl Fəʊˈnetɪk Əˌsəʊsɪˈeɪʃən z ə ˈst ndədaɪzd ˌreprɪzenˈteɪʃən ɒv ə saʊndz ɒv ˈspəʊkən ˈl ŋɡwɪdʒ. ə ˈAɪ ˈPiː ˈEɪ ɪz juːzd baɪ ˌleksɪˈkɒɡrəfəz, ˈfɒrɪn ˈl ŋɡwɪdʒ ˈstjuːdənts, ənd ˈtiːtʃəz, ˈlɪŋɡwɪsts, spiːtʃ ǝn ˈl ŋɡwɪdʒ pəˈθɒlədʒɪsts, ˈsɪŋəz, ˈ ktəz, kənˈstrʌktɪd ˈl ŋɡwɪdʒ kriːˈeɪtəz, ənd tr nsˈleɪtəz. ɪs ɪˈdɪʃən əv ˈ lɪsɪz Ədˈventʃəz ɪn ˈWʌndəˌl nd prɪˈzents ə tekst ɪn ən ˌꞮntəˈn ʃənl Fəʊˈnetɪk ˈ lfəbɪt tr nsˈkrɪpʃən. ə tr ns-ˈkrɪpʃən rɪˈflekts ə ˈst ndəd ˈriːdʒənli ˈnjuːtrəl fɔːm əv ˈspəʊkən ˈBrɪtɪʃ ˈꞮŋɡlɪʃ nəʊn z Rɪˈsiːvd Prəˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃən. Ɡrɑːntɪd t məʊst ˈlɪŋɡwɪsts əˈɡriː t nɒt mʌtʃ mɔː n 4% əv ə ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən əv ˈBrɪtən spiːk ɪt təˈdeɪ, ˈⱭː ˈPiː wɒz ˌnevə əˈles trəˈdɪʃnəlɪ beɪst ɒn ˈedjuːkeɪtɪd spiːtʃ ɪn ˈsʌ ən ˈꞮŋɡlənd; ɪt ɪz stɪl ˈwaɪdli tɔːt ənd ˈdɪkʃənrɪz fə ˈneɪtɪv ˈspiːkəz ənd ˈlɜːnəz əv ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ stɪl meɪk juːs əv ɪt ɪn eə tr nsˈkrɪpʃənz. Bɪˈkɒz ɪs ɪz ə ˈnɒvəl, ənd ment tə biː red, ɪt wɒz dɪˈsaɪdɪd tə rɪˈteɪn sʌm ˌɔːθəˈɡr fɪk ˈfiːtʃəz wɪtʃ ɑː nɒt ˈnɔːməli kept ɪn fəʊˈnetɪk tr nsˈkrɪpʃən: ˌpʌŋktjʊˈeɪʃən, ɪˈt lɪsaɪˈzeɪʃən, ənd kəˌpɪtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən. ˈK rəlz ˌpʌŋktjʊˈeɪʃən h z beːn rɪˈteɪnd wɪ iː ɪkˈsepʃən əv iː əˈpɒstrəfɪ ˈmɑːkɪŋ ə ˈdʒenɪtɪv (bɪˈkɒz Duchess's voice dʒʌst lʊkt rɒŋ z ˈDʌtʃɪs'ɪz vɔɪs).

The story of Iohannes Scottus Eriugena (c. 800-870), Ireland's greatest philosopher, is told here for the newcomer. Educated in Ireland, Eriugena emigrated to France where he became a close friend of the Emperor, Charles the Bald, serving him as court poet and master of the palace school. He also became a trans­lator and admirer of the theology of the Greek Church, leading eventually to his condemna­tion as a heretic. In recent times, however, he has become one of the most studied of all mediaeval intellectuals. A great book for two reasons, the clear account of Eriugena's philosophy and theology, and the fine prose style, particularly in the translations of Eriugena's own words. --Donnchadh Corr in

This textual commentary looks at how The Hunting of the Snark is structured, and comments on the poetic elements. It also discusses the history of the poem and of Henry Holiday's illustrations for it. A fascinating look at a poem which has been universally acknowledged as the greatest of all epic nonsense poems. Selwyn Goodacre has a large Lewis Carroll collection includ-ing over 2000 copies of the Alice books. He is a past chair-man of the Lewis Carroll Society, and edited the Society journal from 1974-1997. For years he has pursued a special interest in the text of the Alice books, which has led to his current com-mentary on, and analysis of, the way they were written.

The Vivekachudamani (Sanskrit Vivekacūḍāmaṇi) is an introductory treatise within the Advaita Vedanta tradition of Hinduism, traditionally attributed to Adi Shankara of the eighth century CE. It is in the form of a poem in the Shardula Vikridita metre, and for many centuries has been celebrated as a prakaraṇa grantha ('teaching manual') of Advaita. Vivekachudamani literally means 'the crest-jewel of discrimination'. The text discusses key concepts and the viveka or discrimination or discernment between real (unchanging, eternal) and unreal (changing, temporal), Prakriti and Atman, the oneness of Atman and Brahman, and self-knowledge as the central task of the spiritual life and for Moksha. It expounds the Advaita Vedanta philosophy in the form of a self-teaching manual, with many verses in the form of a dialogue between a student and a spiritual teacher.

The Reverend John Henry Richards, MA, BD, was an Anglican priest born in 1934 who was ordained a deacon in Llandaff in 1977 and a priest there in 1978. He served in Maesteg, Cardiff, Penmark, and Stackpile Elidor until his retirement in 1999, and died in 2017. He is known for his English translations of the Sanskrit Ashtavakra Gita and Vivekachudamani, of the Pali Dhammapada, and of the medieval Latin De Adhaerendo Deo, all of which he put in the public domain and distributed on the Internet in the late 1990s.

In his will, George Bernard Shaw left instructions (and some funds) for the development of a new regular alphabet for the English language. A design by Ronald Kingsley Read was chosen. In 1962, Shaw's play Androcles and the Lion was printed in what became known as the Shaw Alphabet, or Shavian. This edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is written entirely in that same alphabet, with fonts specially designed by Michael Everson.

The Samaritan community's culture and religion is unique in the world. The Samaritans share an origin with Jews, but the two peoples diverged thousands of years ago, already in Biblical times. The Samaritans consider only the Pentateuch to be a holy book; the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures are no more a part of the Samaritan Bible than the Christian New Testament is a part of the Jewish Bible. The Samaritan version of the Torah differs in several ways from the Jewish Masoretic version, and those differences are the purpose of this book. Both texts are given, in modern Square Hebrew script, on facing pages. Minor variations between the two texts are printed in boldface type slightly larger than the ordinary text, while major variations are printed not only in boldface but also slightly larger than the minor variations. Readers will find this text to be an intriguing window on ancient Israelite society, from which came both the Jews and the Samaritans.

This book is for the most part a straightforward translation of the ninth edition of Roparz Hemon's Grammaire bretonne. In preparing this edition, a number of sections in the grammar had to be changed for the benefit of the English-speaking reader. Many, but not all, of these additions may be found in the notes to the various sections.

Cette dition de Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles pr sente la premi re traduction en fran ais de 1869 pour le lecteur moderne. La traduction d'Henri Bu fut la deuxi me traduction d'Alice dans une autre langue. Bu demanda l'avis de Lewis Carroll pour cette traduction, que l'on qualifia de traduction autoris e . Un petit nombre de modifications ont t apport es au texte, de mani re rendre le livre plus accessible au lecteur moderne. -- This edition presents the first French translation of 1869 for the modern reader. The translation by Henri Bu was the second translation of Alice into any language. Bu consulted with Lewis Carroll on the translation, which was described as authorized. A small number of changes have been made to the text, in order to make the book a bit more accessible to the modern reader.

The Hunting of the Snark was first published in 1876, eleven years after Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and four years after Through the Looking-Glass. It is a master-piece of nonsense and is connected to Through the Looking-Glass by its use of vocabulary from the poem Jabberwocky. The Hunting of the Snark is a strangely dark poem, and some critics believe that its themes-insanity and death-are rather too adult in nature for children's literature. We know, nonetheless, that Lewis Carroll intended the poem to be enjoyed by children: he dedicated the book in acrostic verse to his young friend Gertrude Chataway, and signed some 80 presentation copies to other young readers. Many of those inscriptions were in the form of an acrostic based upon the name of the child to whom the book was presented. Part of the pleasure of reading this book is in the inevitable musing about what it means. Its author, often asked to explain his work, invariably replies that he does not know. It is therefore open to readers of the poem to decide the question for themselves... The Deseret alphabet was developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was intended to help make learning to write English easier. This wasn't very successful, though the alphabet does have interesting phonemic features, as well as being a fascinating part of Mormon history. This edition of The Hunting of the Snark is written entirely in that same alphabet, with fonts specially designed by John H. Jenkins and Michael Everson.

Lewis Carroll's stories of Alice have entranced children - and grown-ups - for nearly 150 years. And more than one reader, turning the last page of Through the Looking-Glass, must have been saddened by the thought that her adventures had well and truly come to an end. Not so Setting himself the daily task of believing as many as six impossible things before breakfast (or at least before lunch), Gilbert Adair has written a delightful successor to Carroll's two immortal fantasies. Here, with the aid of Jenny Thorne's Tenniel-inspired illustrations, you will find characters as nonsensical as any ever encountered by Alice. The Siamese-Twin Cats joined at the tail, the kindly old Grampus and its Auto-Biography, the Welsh Rabbit with its toasted cheese and Worcestershire Sauce and many, many, more. And perhaps you too will gradually discover, as Alice does, the mysterious pattern which shapes the destiny of her dream. Alice Through the Needle's Eye is both a literary tour de force and an enchantingly funny tail for children of, as they say, all ages.

Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into over a hundred languages, from French to Japanese to Esperanto. In this translation into the rich dialect of the Appalachian Mountains, the translators have treated the story as a folktale, in order to create the sense that the reader is listening as an adult tells the story to a child. The story has been transported from Victorian English to post-Civil-War West Virginia, into an Appalachian setting appropriate for the dialect. The spelling used aims towards a literary ortho-graphy, rather than towards a phonemic respelling of the language entirely, and so it avoids unnecessary eye-dialect (funkshun instead of function, and so forth). The sounds of the language used in Alice's Adventures in an Appalachian Wonderland will certainly be familiar to most readers, but a short glossary has also been included.

George T. Hartley has the distinction of having been the first of the many authors to write and publish a sequel or continuation of any of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland books. Prior to this, a few rather short child-into-otherworld pastiches had been released, but A Few More Chapters of Alice Through the Looking Glass was the earliest of its kind. There are only three copies of this book known, one in the National Art Library (Victoria and Albert Museum, London), one the in the Morgan Library and Museum (New York), and one in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville).

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland regnes som en av de viktigste barne-b kene i verden, kanskje den aller viktigste. I Norge har fortellingen v rt kjent som enten Else i Eventyrland eller som Alice i Eventyrland. Vi har gode grunner til å anta at det var s strene Augusta og Emma Hagerup (kalt E. A. Hagerup) som f rste gang formidlet Lewis Carroll's fortelling til norsk i B rnenes Blad 1. oktober 1870. Her presenterer vi denne oversettelsen både på norsk og engelsk. Boken inneholder også en bibliografi over norske Alice-oversettelser.

Alice's Adventures in Won-der-land is re-garded as one of the most important chil-dren's books in the world, perhaps the most important one. In Norway, the story has been known as either Else i Eventyr-land or Alice i Eventyr-land. We have reason to believe that it was the sisters Augusta and Emma Hagerup (called E. A. Hagerup) who presented Lewis Carroll's story in Norwegian for the first time, in the magazine called B rnenes Blad ('Chil-dren's Magazine') on 1 October, 1870. This book chronicles this story, and presents the text in Norwegian and English translation, as well as a bibliography of Norwegian Alices.

Le Proph te est un livre constitu de 26 fables crites dans une prose po tique en anglais par le po te et philosophe libano-am ricain Kahlil Gibran. Il a t publi pour la premi re fois en 1923 et est l'oeuvre la plus c l bre de Khalil Gibran. Le Proph te a t traduit dans plus de 100 langues, en faisant un des livres les plus traduits dans l'histoire. Ses r ditions n'ont jamais cess .

Le r cit nous pr sente le proph te Almustafa, qui a attendu douze ann es qu'un navire vienne finalement le chercher, pour le ramener dans sa terre natale. Avant son d part, des habitants de la cit d'Orphalese lui demandent une derni re fois de partager ses r flexions sur diff rent sujets ( Parle nous de... ). Le proph te prononce alors 26 sermons qui traitent de questions quotidiennes de la vie humaine, savoir l'amour, le mariage, les enfants, le don, la nourriture, le travail, la joie et la tristesse, la maison, les v tements, le commerce, le crime et le ch timent, les lois, la libert , la raison et la passion, la souffrance, la connaissance de soi, l'enseignement, l'amiti , la parole, le temps, le bien et le mal, la pri re, le plaisir, la beaut , la religion, et enfin la mort. Dans le chapitre final, Almustafa entrem le son discours de d part une r flexion sur le sens.

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The Prophet is a book of 26 fables written in English prose poetry by the Lebanese-American poet and philosopher Kahlil Gibran. It was first published in 1923 and is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history. It has never been out of print.

The narrative introduces us to the Prophet Almustafa, who has waited twelve years for his ship, which will finally take him back to his homeland. Before leaving, some inhabitants of the city of Orphalese ask him to convey to them his insights on various topics for the last time (Speak to us of...). The Prophet relates 26 sermons that deal with basic questions of human life, such as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punish-ment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and finally death. In the final chapter, Almustafa interweaves a discussion about the question of meaning into his parting words.

Snarkmaster is a unique, gripping tale of a power struggle between good and evil, concluding with the development of an unusual intermediate state. Most of the story takes place prior to the traditional Snark voyage (described in verse in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark), but becomes inextricably linked with it-unless it isn't... The literary structure of Snarkmaster reveals some influence of Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno tales, as the characters (including the great Charles Dodgson himself) experience dream states and the appearance of at least one fairy. The comprehensive glossary and painstakingly hand-detailed maps of each of the islands in the archipelago may not be essential to follow the story, but they certainly enhance it. The meticulously hand-inked illustrations emphasize some of the important aspects of the story and provide a tropical ambiance for the text. While not necessarily a prerequisite, knowledge of Carroll's original poem is likely to make Snarkmaster more enjoyable for most readers.

In the novella Atchafalya Boojum, four teenagers and two alligator hunters encounter a terrifying Boojum deep in the Atchafalaya Swamp near Morgan City, Louisiana.

Murder by Boojum is the tale of a brutal serial killer stalks members of the Southern California branch of The American Lewis Carroll Society, targeting members of a mysterious and highly secretive Snark Club within the Society that meets once a year in San Diego's fabled Hotel del Coronado to celebrate and appreciate Carroll's epic nonsense poem, The Hunting of the Snark. After the first few murders, the killer, who intentionally leaves Snarkian clues, is tagged by the media as The Boojum, since the monster's victims, collectors of rare editions of Carroll's classic nonsense work, figuratively vanish when the killer strikes. Who is the Boojum? What is the Boojum's motive? Will all ten hapless members of this strange group die before the police can stop this Snarkian reign of terror? Is it even safe for anyone in the Society to own more than one copy of Carroll's darkest work?

These Essays are a response to an intensive study of the Gospel of Thomas that extended over many years. The study covered every possible aspect of the Gospel and its origins. Thus the Essays help you to become informed about this ground-breaking record of the sayings of Jesus. You learn about the ancient document itself, how it came into existence, the r le of Thomas the disciple of Jesus, and the relation of this Gospel to those in the New Testament. Later Essays in the book expound crucial Teachings of Jesus. They make many references to the sayings recorded in the Gospel, and show how they link together into a woven whole. All these Essays are related to, or derived from, the Gospel of Thomas itself. They give a fresh view of that Gospel, just as the Gospel gives a fresh view of Jesus and his Teachings.

It was in 1880 and 1881 that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, which was begun at Braemar, Scotland, where his father aided him with suggestions from his own seafaring experiences. It was finished in the course of his second visit to Davos in the winter of 1881-1882. Treasure Island, which appeared when the author was thirty-one, was his first long romance, and it brought to him his first taste of popular success, when the story was published in book form. It was in October 1881, that this story began to appear as a serial in an English magazine called Young Folks. The title then was The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island, but when published in book form in May 1883, the name was simply Treasure Island, a name which has taken its place among the titles of far older classics. This edition contains the superb illustrations of Louis Rhead, which were first published in 1915.