Artisan: 415 books

ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1809-1865) was the 16th President of the United States. With quiet words of wisdom, and a passion for social justice, Abraham Lincoln inspired citizens everywhere with his willingness to moderate—and shift—his views on slavery, and to perform astonishing acts of courage...

  A genuinely fresh take on Freud’s masterful insights, for students and laymen of all ages. Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way we look at ourselves, with his conceptually brilliant theories of sex, dreams, and the forces ever-present in our unconscious minds. Unfortunately,...

SIEGFRIED SASSOON, CBE, MC (1886–1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, Sassoon is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems of the First World War, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality...

WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874–1965) was a British statesman, army officer, and writer, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Named the Greatest Briton of all time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is among the most influential people in British history....

Many readers have long considered Balzac to be perhaps the greatest of all novelists. Eugénie Grandet, his masterful study of a girl whose life is scarred by her father's insane greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. World literature has some memorable cold-hearted...

“He who cherishes an individual beyond his homeland… is nothing…" Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the ill-fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus—are among the most enduring and timeless dramas...

Charles Baudelaire wrote of The Flowers of Evil: “There are in every man at all times two simultaneous impulses: one toward God, the other toward Satan.” Its principal themes of sex and death, created a public scandal. The work was banned for verses then considered obscene and “an insult to...

Trilce, los poemas escritos en la cárcel por delitos políticos por parte de César Vallejo, son marcadamente diferentes de los poemas idílicos de Los Heraldos Negros. Trilce es más intenso, más original que el primer volumen. El poeta reconoce...

Second only to the Bible, the Dao De Jing (or Tao Te Ching) is the most translated work in world literature. Allied to the Bible, the Quran, and the dialogues of Plato, the Dao De Jing is the purest scripture of Daoism. Modern philosophers, such as Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger and...

"La libertad es el derecho de todo hombre a ser honesto, a pensar ya hablar sin hipocresía". Durante más de un siglo, el revolucionario y escritor cubano José Martí (1853-1895) ha sido visto como una figura fundamental, casi sagrada, en el panteón de la historia latinoamericana....

“Thus Man’s most noble Parts describ’d we see; (For such the Parts of Generation be;) And they that carefully survey’t, will find, Each Part is fitted for the Use design’d: The Purest Blood we find, if well we heed, Is in the Testicles turn’d into Seed…” Aristotle's Master-piece...

Original Stories from Real Life is the only complete work of children's literature extant by Mary Wollstonecraft. She wrote it to provide a model for teachers and pupils that would ‘fix principles of truth and humanity on a solid and simple foundation’, as she explains in her preface....

In his brilliant essay How I Write – The Philosophy of Composition, Edgar Allan Poe describes a theory about how good writers write when they write well. In it he concludes that length, "unity of effect" and a logical method are vital considerations for good writing. He also makes...

Une saison en enfer est un long poème écrit et publié en 1873 par Arthur Rimbaud. Il est considéré par beaucoup comme son chef-d'oeuvre. Rimbaud a commencé à écrire le poème en Avril, lors d'une visite à la ferme...