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This edition is illustrated with abstract paintings of Abraham McDonald, originally designed for this book.''''The 1001 Beloved Books Collection'''' is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of literature (including fiction and non-fiction), that you can find on Internet. It literally contains 1001 most popular and influential works of world literature, philosophy, psychology, science and other fields of human knowledge, (mainly) sorted alphabetically. This (1/100) Volume includes Abrahamian sacred texts: The Bible, Al Qur''an and some translations from Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala. The Abrahamic religions are monotheistic religions that have their roots in the prophet Abraham - the central religions are Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

This edition is illustrated with abstract paintings of Abraham McDonald, especially designed for this edition.Marcus Aurelius has been lauded for his capacity "to write down what was in his heart just as it was, not obscured by any consciousness of the presence of listeners or any striving after effect". Gilbert Murray compares the work to Jean-Jacques Rousseau''s Confessions and St. Augustine''s Confessions. Though Murray criticizes Marcus for the "harshness and plainness of his literary style", he finds in his Meditations "as much intensity of feeling...as in most of the nobler modern books of religion, only with a sterner power controlling it". "People fail to understand Marcus", he writes, "not because of his lack of self-expression, but because it is hard for most men to breathe at that intense height of spiritual life, or, at least, to breathe soberly".

This edition is illustrated with abstract paintings of Abraham McDonald, specially designed for this book.The main frame story concerns a Persian king and his new bride. He is shocked to discover that his brother''s wife is unfaithful; discovering his own wife''s infidelity has been even more flagrant, he has her executed: but in his bitterness and grief decides that all women are the same. The king, Shahryar, begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the next morning, before she has a chance to dishonour him. Eventually the vizier, whose duty it is to provide them, cannot find any more virgins. Scheherazade, the vizier''s daughter, offers herself as the next bride and her father reluctantly agrees. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade begins to tell the king a tale, but does not end it. The king is thus forced to postpone her execution in order to hear the conclusion. The next night, as soon as she finishes the tale, she begins (and only begins) a new one, and the king, eager to hear the conclusion, postpones her execution once again. So it goes on for 1,001 nights.

This edition of Baum''s classic work is illustrated with abstract paintings of Abraham McDonald, originally designed for this book.Lyman Frank Baum was an American author of children''s books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane''s Nieces at Work). In 1900, Baum and Denslow (with whom he shared the copyright) published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to much critical acclaim and financial success. The book was the best-selling children''s book for two years after its initial publication. Baum went on to write thirteen more novels based on the places and people of the Land of Oz.

This edition of Lang''s classic is illustrated with abstract paintings of Abraham McDonald, originaly designed for this book.Andrew Lang''s Fairy Books — also known as Andrew Lang''s "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang''s Fairy Books of Many Colors — are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally — with the notable exception of Madame d''Aulnoy — made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories.According to Anita Silvey, "The irony of Lang''s life and work is that although he wrote for a profession—literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write...