This collection contains adventure novels from various authors, recognized masters who have become classics in this genre. None of the works included in the collection will leave an inquisitive and demanding reader indifferent. Contents: Jack London: The Call of the Wild  Jack London: White Fang  Jack London: To build a fire  Jules Verne: Around The World in 80 Days  Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea Joseph Conrad: Heart Of Darkness Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island  Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels  Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe  Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World O. Henry: The Ransom Of Red Chief 

In Still Life with a Bridle, poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert takes an intriguing look at the cultural, artisitic, and aesthetic legacy of 17th-century Holland. These sixteen essays reveal Hervert's discriminating artistic eye and poetic sensibility, one that revels in irony, humor, and a satirist's appreciation of the absurd. An inveterate museum-goer, he focuses on the art of the Dutch masters, using it as a stepping-off point for a thoroughly individual and entertaining examination of the foibles, genius, and character of the Dutch people as a whole. The result is an unorthodox and revealing glimpse into the past that gives us a keener understanding not only of a distant people, but of ourselves as well.