The old men say their fathers told them that soon after the fields were left to themselves a change began to be visible. It became green everywhere in the first…

On May 31, 1921, the Ford Motor Company turned out Car No. 5,000,000. It is out in my museum along with the gasoline buggy that I began work on thirty…

"The Education of Henry Adams", the most famous work of its author, was originally intended only for a small audience; after its posthumous publication in 1918, it promptly won the…

The Theory of the Leisure Class is a book on economics and sociology by Thorstein Veblen, giving a detailed critique of conspicuous consumption (the spending of money on and the…

"This now-famous book was given a hostile reception when it first appeared in 1824. It was not reprinted until the late 1830s, when a heavily bowdlerised version was included in…

Goodwill in the seventeenth century Polish Commonwealth has been stretched thin due to the nobility’s perceived and real oppression of the less well-off members. When the situation reaches its inevitable…

本书通过幻想小说探讨存在与意识的终极命题.战斗场景是远在奥尔特星云的大本星体,探测者几番在吸血鬼的命令下,忍受着死亡射线的威胁深入罗夏内部探求真相;书中所探讨的核心主题,却回归至人类本身—-人类最终的进化方向到底是什么;如果唯有摒弃自我意识才能在茫茫星海中生存下去,这是进化还是灭绝.

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally…

Author: Walter PaterPublisher: Independently PublishedGenre: Christianity and other religions FictionPages: 336ISBN: 9781177509473

One of the most important and impactful works of spiritual fiction ever published in the English language, Kahlil Gibran's masterwork, The Prophet, is rooted in the author's experiences as a…

Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town of Carlisle.

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved…