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The Reluctant Dragon

Illustrated

by Kenneth Grahame
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017

In this delightful tale an unnamed boy discovers that there is a dragon living in the downs above his house. But this is no ordinary dragon, this is an erudite, poetry-loving dragon. The boy and the dragon become friends in short order. Unfortunately, the villagers also discover that there is a dragon...

On the Burning of Books

How flames fail to destroy the written word

by Lord Kenneth Baker
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

In this revealingly illustrated book, the political sage Kenneth Baker records the many times throughout history when books have been burnt for political, religious, or personal reasons. Ranging politically from Ancient China to the Nazis, from Animal Farm to Chairman Mao; religiously, from the Spanish...

Eighteenth-Century Women Artists

Their Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs

by Caroline Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017

The eighteenth century was an age when not only the aristocracy but a burgeoning middle class could enjoy a remarkable flowering of the arts. But it was a man’s world; any woman who wished to succeed as an artist had to overcome numerous obstacles. In a society in which women were required to marry,...
by Thomas Troward
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016

The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science are required reading for anyone wishing to understand and control the power of the mind. Without these lectures the New Thought Movement and The Science of Mind might never have been born. Thomas Troward was an early New Thought writer who had an immense...
by Linda Brent
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016

Here is one of the few slave narratives written by a women. Slavery is a terrible thing, but it is far more terrible and harrowing for women than for men. Harriet Jacobs was owned by a brutal master who beat his slaves regularly and subjected them to indignations that were far worse. Jacobs eventually...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017

Ancient accounts of Aristotle credit him with 170 Constitutions of various states; it is widely assumed that these were research for the Politics, and that many of them were written or drafted by his students. Athens, however, was a particularly important state, and where Aristotle was living at the...

Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt

With Linked Table of Contents

by Theodore Roosevelt
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016

Theodore Roosevelt was the twenty-sixth President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the...
by Frederick Douglass
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016

Today Frederick Douglass is best known for his autobiographies; but while he was alive he was known as a fiery orator who was always in demand. Collected here are ten of Frederick Douglass' addresses. And while it is impossible to hear Frederick Douglass speak today, these addresses still manage to...

Hamel 4th July 1918

The Australian & American Victory

by John Hughes-Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018

The Battle of Hamel is arguably, the most important battle of the First World War yet it is still relatively unknown. It was turning point of the Great War and saw American troops fighting alongside Australian troops in their first taste of war on foreign soil, making the reputation of the man who...
by Olaudah Equiano
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade. He wrote an autobiography that depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act...

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

With Linked Table of Contents

by Emily Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016

Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Although...

Sadhana

The Realisation of Life

by Rabindranath Dr Tagore
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016

All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit--the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history. We get to know the real meaning of Christianity by observing its living aspect at the present moment--however different that may be, even in important...
by Ernest Hemingway
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019

Ernest Hemingway was one of America’s best known and most beloved authors. This was a his first published book. These three stories and ten poems served notice that a major new talent had arrived and the rules of American Literature were about to change.

Leaves of Grass

1855 First Edition Text

by Walt Whitman
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016

From one of America's best loved and most important poets comes a masterpiece. Leaves of Grass is considered by many to be the greatest collection of poetry ever produced by an American. And this, the 1855 First Edition Text, is considered the strongest and most important of the many editions produced...
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