William Morris was highly eclectic: novelist, thinker, artist, politician, trend-setter in various subjects such as architecture, design, graphic and interior design. In this...
The New Organon
The New Organum, full original title "Novum Organum Scientiarum" (‘new instrument of science’), is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin...
Human Bullets. A Soldier's Story Of Port Arthur
The first victory by an Asian power over a European one since the Mongol invasions of the 13th Century: that's why the impact of the Russo-Japanese War, dated 1904-05, was so...
Ulysses
"Ulysses" is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature. Joyce divided Ulysses...
Behind The Scenes Or, Thirty Years A Slave, And Four Years In The White House: Premium Ebook
*** Premium Ebook ***Former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author, Elizabeth Keckley was the personal dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln. She was also...
The Story Of Atlantis
The destruction of Atlantis was accomplished by a series of catastrophes varying in character from great cataclysms in which whole territories and populations perished, to...
The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
INTRODUCTORY LETTERMY DEAR MR. FIELDS,—I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction,—what is it?—a sort of pilaster, put...
Under The Greenwood Tree, Or, The Mellstock Quire; A Rural Painting Of The Dutch School
PREFACEThis story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted...
The Meaning Of Masonry
"THE papers here collected are written solely for members of the Masonic Order, constituted under the United Grand Lodge of England. (...) They have been written with a view to...
The Book Of Tea
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and...
