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Manga adaptation of Iliad and Odyssey by Homer.
64A deeply moving and tragic drama from the father of animal fiction writing! The 19th century America, it was the pioneering era where a wave of change in civilization struck and animals were overhunted. Seton, a hunter and an artist who is researching animal ecology befalls a request to exterminate a pack of wolf. The wolves are relentless by all means and do not yield to the hands of man, but for Seton this encounter would mark a great turning point in his life. Within the 55 compilations in “Seton’s Wild Animals,” the masterpiece “King of Wolves” and two other compilations have been transformed into comics!
In eighteenth century Europe, in the midst of misery and oppression promoted by absolute monarchies, a philosopher dared to ask: what would be the most legitimate system of government and socially just? Analyzing the nature of man and human relations, Rousseau (1712-1778) proposed in his treatise not only a model of social organization but a new world view, that was one of the fuses for the liberal uprisings that, from French Revolution onwards, shook the entire European continent.
Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101...Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime. (Source: Penguin Books)
Inventor of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) forever changed the way of understanding the human mind. In this volume, based on The Interpretation of Dreams (1899), in the series of lectures that make up the Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1917) and Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), are brought together some of the main author of the ideas on the exploitation the unconscious and life in society, in addition to basic biographical passages to understand one of the most influential and original thinkers of the last century.
Considered by Freud one of the greatest novels ever written, and having influenced writers like Kafka and Nietzsche, The Brothers Karamazov (1880) is the magisterial outcome of Dostoevsky's (1821-1881) works. Here we have the story of wanton Fyodor Karamazov and his sons: Alyosha, the youngest, who lives in a monastery; Ivan, the intellectual and atheist; and Dimitri, military and impulsive. Through this dysfunctional and troubled family, Dostoevsky expresses some of the biggest anxieties of the human soul and the relationship between parents and children.
Manga version of Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche.
