A Word To The Wise imprint: 25 books
by Charles Dickens
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Charles Dickenss Pictures from Italy can be considered as a guide for nineteenth-century travelers of Italy, or travelogue, as it provides narrative pictures of the different corners and aspects of the country. It was in 1844 that the Victorian novelist visited the most picturesque of Italian cities...
by Emile Walter
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Emile Walters reworked the French author Bastiat’s Sophismes Economique to make it more accessible for an American audience. Bastiat’s laid out his ideas clearly and they are certainly translated with Walter’s unique style to make it more palatable for an overseas audience. Written in 1866 it is a remarkable document of trade and wealth creation for the time.
Geography and Plays
“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to get rich. ”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Gertrude Stein was born near Pittsburgh, PA to affluent Jewish parents, Daniel and Amelia Stein on 3rd February 1874. Gertrude attended Harvard and was a student of imminent psychologist William James who declared her his best ever female student and there she began to write in a style very much like...
Tender Buttons
"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Gertrude Stein was born near Pittsburgh, PA to affluent Jewish parents, Daniel and Amelia Stein on 3rd February 1874. Gertrude attended Harvard and was a student of imminent psychologist William James who declared her his best ever female student and there she began to write in a style very much like...
The Yellow Wallpaper
“Through literature we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a...
Leo Tolstoy - Bethink Yourselves
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was born on September 9th 1828 into Russian nobility but abandoned his title and through his interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus became a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist. His writings on non-violence were to have a profound impact on Gandhi and Martin...
The Poetic Principle
“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th 1809 and was orphaned at an early age. Taken in by the Allan family his education was cut short by lack of money and he went to the military academy, West Point where he failed to become an officer. His early literary...
An Essay Upon Projects
"It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions."
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Daniel Defoe is most well-known for his classic novels Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders. Born circa 1659, he was also a journalist, a pamphleteer, a businessman, a spy ... and a writer of short stories. His life was long and colourful, and the breadth of his work, still highly regarded, is infused...
by Ayn Rand
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Anthem (1938) is basically a dystopia whereby the Russian-American novelist, Ayn Rand, indirectly defends the values of individualism, ambition and creativity. The narrative imagines humanity in an age of irrationality and totalitarian obscurantism where human beings are no longer allowed to be different...
by Elizabeth Gaskell
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The story of Elizabeth Gaskells novella The Moorland Cottage takes place in a modest cottage near the town of Combehurst where Mrs. Browne lives with her two children, Edward and Maggie, along with their servant, Nancy. In her description of their daily life, Gaskell mainly insists on showing how the...
Spirits Rebellious
“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Khalil Gibran was one of a number of Arab intellectuals and writers who lived in the United States in the beginning of the twentieth century and who had a great influence on the development of modern Arabic literature through the exploration of Western literary movements. The group was presided by Khalil...
Studies And Essays
“the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done”
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
John Galsworthy first published in 1897 with a collection of short stories entitled “The Four Winds”. For the next 7 years he published these and all works under his pen name John Sinjohn. It was only upon the death of his father and the publication of “The Island Pharisees” in 1904 that he...
Hopes and Fears for Art
"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 he is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian. Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed...
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created."
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William Morris was born in Walthamstow, London on 24th March 1834 he is regarded today as a foremost poet, writer, textile designer, artist and libertarian. Morris began to publish poetry and short stories in 1856 through the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine which he founded with his friends and financed...
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