Library

All About Coffee

William H. Ukers (1922)

The classic coffee encyclopedia: history, growing, trade, brewing and café culture worldwide.

Coffee: Its History, Classification and Description

Joseph M. Walsh (1894)

A 19th-century coffee merchant’s guide to origins, varieties and judging quality.

Coffee and Chicory

P. L. Simmonds (1864)

Cultivation, chemistry, preparation and trade of coffee as documented in the 1860s.

Coffee Merchandising

William H. Ukers (1924)

A practical handbook to the coffee business, from farm and roast to selling the cup.

Tales of Katkout Café

حكايات قهوة كتكوت

محمود السعدني

Satirical tales set in a popular Cairo café, a gem of Arabic café literature.

Kalila and Dimna

كليلة ودِمنة

عبد الله بن المقفع

Timeless fables of wisdom told by animals, a masterpiece of Arabic prose.

One Thousand and One Nights (Part 1)

ألف ليلة وليلة (الجزء الأول)

تراث عالمي

Scheherazade’s tales that enchanted the world, in a complete free Arabic edition.

Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales

حكايات هانس أندرسن الخيالية

هانس كريستيان أندرسن

The world’s best-loved fairy tales, translated into Arabic.

A Scandal in Bohemia

فضيحة في بوهيميا

آرثر كونان دويل

Sherlock Holmes’s first short adventure and his famous duel of wits with Irene Adler.

The Sign of the Four

علامة الأربعة

آرثر كونان دويل

A full-length Sherlock Holmes mystery of treasure and an old secret.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

القضية الغريبة للدكتور جيكل ومستر هايد

روبرت لويس ستيفنسون

The classic tale of good and evil in one man, translated by Mohamed Enani.

A Drama in the Air

رحلة على متن منطاد

جول فيرن

A short adventure from the pioneer of science fiction.

War and Peace (Book 1)

الحرب والسلم (الكتاب الأول)

ليو تولستوي

The great Russian epic of love, war and fate.

David Copperfield (for children)

ديفيد كوبرفيلد (للأطفال)

تشارلز ديكنز

A young readers’ edition of Dickens’s famous novel.

The Man in a Case

الرجل المعلَّب

أنطون تشيخوف

Short stories by the master of the modern short story.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

The famous fantasy of a girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a curious world.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Twelve cases of literature’s most famous detective.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne

A daring wager sends Phileas Fogg racing around the globe.

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Pirates, a treasure map and an unforgettable sea adventure.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Andrew Lang (ed.)

A classic English selection of the Thousand and One Nights.

Grimms’ Fairy Tales

Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm

Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel and other timeless folk tales.

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

The tales of Mowgli and his friends in the Indian jungle.

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

The famous survival story of a castaway on a remote island.

Aesop’s Fables

Aesop

Short fables with timeless morals for all ages.