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Enormously popular when published, Westward Ho! is the saga of Elizabethan sailors from the Devonshire coast who sail off into the unknown to found an empire for their queen. Moving at a breathless pace from start to finish, the story …
Published in 1909, this volume consists of a series of lectures subsequently edited and expanded by the author. Chapter titles include "God and Israel," "The Joy of the Law," "Sin as Rebellion," and "Forgiveness and Reconciliation with God." The book …
The hero of this captivating historical romance is a country youth of whom it has been prophesied that he would love where the king loved and drink of the kings cup. The hero is called to court and placed in …
View book details for The Social and Industrial History of Scotland (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
From the Union to the Present Time
Intended for the general reader as well as students and teachers of Scottish history, this sweeping 1920 history traces the growth of Scotland from the eighteenth century and James Wattss steam engine, through its rise as an industrial power and …
This 1907 volume contains seven short stories characterized by the author as "romances": "A Sleep and a Forgetting," "The Eidolons of Brooks Alford," "A Memory that Worked Overtime," "A Case of Metaphantasmia," "Editha," "Baybridge's Offer," and "The Chick of the …
This 1817 volume of critical essays on Shakespeare's plays brings a fresh psychological perspective to the characters, as well as addressing the dramatic and poetic qualities of the works, placing special value on the great tragedies. The volume is a …
Here is the story of Christy Mahon, hailed as a hero (and an immediate object of romantic attention) for his claim to have killed his cruel father. However, when he finds out his father survived, Mahon attempts to murder him …
Imagine meeting a literary legend. In this whimsical fantasy, William Dean Howells does just that. Here, Howells pretends to meet Shakespeare at the Shakespeare Festival. They are joined by Sir Francis Bacon, leading to jokes about the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. To …
This 1898 volume focuses primarily on what the author terms "the popular and native art of building" rather than borrowings from other countries and cultures. From early underground and round houses to the urban town house, the manor house, the …
A portrait of early twentieth-century English life, Second String tells the engrossing story of Vivian Wellgood and her fiance, Harry Belfield, who is on the threshold of a brilliant political career. A sense of reckoning permeates the novel, as Belfields …
Early 20th century historian and philosopher R.G. Collingwood contends here that religion and philosophy are more closely intertwined than previously assumed. Arguing that the minds workings can be decoded only by self-analysis, and not by scientific methods, Collingwood identifies the …
In the Malay Archipelago, Axel Heyst, a failed European businessman, rescues a young Englishwoman from a rapacious hotel owner. Fleeing to a remote island, Heyst and the woman are pursued by thugs dispatched by the vengeful hotelier. Written late in …
Studies from Court and Cloister surveys various crucial points in the history of religion in Europe at the close of the Middle Agesexamining religions decline, revival, and the causes which led to both. Part One of this intriguing and compelling …
View book details for More Martian Tales (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Thuvia, Maid of Mars / The Chessmen of Mars
Readers who were enticed by The Martian Tales Trilogy will delight even more in the fourth and fifth installments in Edgar Rice Burroughs Martian Tales series, Thuvia, Maid of Mars and Chessmen of Mars. The hero of the first three …
This early work by Tolstoy, published in 1863, is based on his own experiences serving with the army in the Caucasus region in the 1850s. A young Russian, Dimitry Olenin, leaves his cultured life in Moscow in search of authentic …
First published in 1884, and revised substantially in 1900, A Little Tour in France recounts James's six-week tour of provincial Franceas he notes "France may be Paris, but Paris is not France." Urbane, witty, knowledgeable, James is a charming tour …
In As a Man Thinketh, universally acknowledged as a self-help classic, James Allen argues we are what we think. Positive thinking changes our circumstances in constructive ways, as surely as negative thinking brings us down. Each has tangible impact on …
Horror hides behind an attractive face in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's tale of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses. Though Dorian's hedonistic indulgences leave no blemish on his ageless features, the painted portrait …
A collection of eleven essays and lectures by renowned scientist Thomas H. Huxley, Discourses examines a range of subjects, from the formation of coal and the importance of chalk, to yeast and the deep sea. Huxleys work helped popularize science …
Published in 1906, this collection of speeches constitutes a forceful polemic for judging art, and literary art in particular, by a Judeo-Christian moral compass. The author warns against the doctrine of "art for art's sake," finding that its true aim …
View book details for We and Our Neighbors (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
The Records of an Unfashionable Street
The final of Stowes society novels, We and Our Neighbors is the sequel to My Wife and I. In the book, Stowe continues the heartwarming tale of Harry and Eva Henderson and their domestic ups and downs. Lighthearted in tone, …
Published in 1913, this volume applies the latest psychological theories and results to the situations of everyday life with the aim of better explaining both to a lay audience. Chapters, many taken from public addresses or periodicals, are "Play," "Serviceable …
This short biography of John Greenleaf Whittier, published in 1917, was part of the Poetry and Life series, combining biography and poetry to present a fully rounded portrait of its subject. Hudson was of the opinion that Whittier was not …
A review in Outlook magazine of this 1918 biography of the great Prussian statesman and political architect of modern Germany declared: "The present volume, coming when one is viewing the wreck of Bismarck's Empire, has a perspective denied to its …
This charming 1914 novelthe authors firsttells the tale of Mr. William Wrenn, a meek bachelor who works at a tedious job and dreams of traveling to exotic lands. His only escape entails frequent visits to the moving picture shows; but …
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