Reflections by the Lebanese-American poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, pain, and self-knowlege.

Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true. Once I remember walking with a prosperous publisher, who made…

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois This landmark book…

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Massachusetts….

Drawing on the works of Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and other classical authors, as well as an immense trove of stories about the Norse gods and heroes, The Age of Fable…

Written in response to Dickens_ travels in the United States in 1842, American Notes is a fascinating and often highly critical portrait of the young American nation. His obser-vations are…

The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore,…

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the…

When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single…

The Last of the Mohicans A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826.It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and…

These two fascinating sets of stories, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow, make a glorious farewell to the greatest detective of them all and his erstwhile companion,…

Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a…