"The Wisdom of Father Brown" (1914) is a collection of twelve stories by G.K. Chesterton, featuring his empathetic detective Father Brown. Sherlock Holmes might be...
“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the...
**** PREMIUM EBOOK WITH BEAUTIFUL LAYOUT ****ZOROASTRIANISM is a religion much commented upon by a few enthusiastic oriental scholars, and less understood by the general public....
INTRODUCTIONMARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa,...
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 Organum, full original title "Novum Organum Scientiarum" (‘new instrument of science’), is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin...
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" 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...
*** 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 destruction of Atlantis was accomplished by a series of catastrophes varying in character from great cataclysms in which whole territories and populations perished, to...