Artisan: 415 books

Mark Twain's 1906 Diaries of Adam and Eve written on and off in Twain’s last years, are combined here as a powerful and tender narrative exploring what it might have been like to be the first humans on the planet. Twain captures the concept with ease and broadens the story with the pair’s...

“Has he dared to set his wits against mine, to play the double traitor? If even a suspicion of this should come to you, there must be an end of Mr. Francis Norgate." The Double Traitor is one of the earliest spy novels set in the years prior to the outbreak of World War I, a time when...

    The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow is the now timeless tale of a New England schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, undone by his fears of a fabled headless horseman. Or was he? On the basis of this one classic tale, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving is now...

"I am a Sauk...I am a Warrior…" Chief Black Hawk is best known for the war that bears his name. The Black Hawk War of 1832 was the last Indian war fought east of the Mississippi River. The Indians' defeat spelled the end of 200 years of armed resistance to European-American encroachment...

FRANZ BOAS (1858-1942) has long been considered the father of modern American anthropology. He introduced the relativistic, culture-centered principles and methods of investigation that continue to dominate the field today. By attempting to fuse anthropology with political and social activism, he...

Primitive Man by Louis Figuier has become one of the most widely read and influential books ever written. Published in numerous editions and translated into virtually every modern language, Figuier’s Primitive Man has not been out of print since 1871. It presents the evidence of actual...

“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.” Fidel Castro was perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. Castro took power on New Year’s Day in 1959 serenaded by the Western media for toppling dictator Fulgencio...

“A thoroughly refined and harmonious house, in short; such a house as could only belong to cultivated and enlightened people...” According to Susan Lever and Elizabeth Morrison, The Perversity of Human Nature by Ada Cambridge records a precise moment in Melbourne’s urban history before...

Could a computer be made to think? Alan Turing's groundbreaking 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” has become one of the most cited in philosophical literature. Turing was a founding father of artificial intelligence and of modern cognitive science, and was a leading early...

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. One of his earliest works, begun before he was nineteen and published when he was twenty-seven, Burke examines the intriguing questions of just what it...

“We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?” In ‘Goblin Market’, Christina Rossetti, an important and oft-quoted literary master, experiments with language, form and imagery to create a beautiful and voluptuous...

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...

Ms. Found In A Bottle is a small prototypical story by the master, whose extravagantly macabre tales have inspired such latter-day disciples as H.P. Lovecraft, and Stephen King. We follow an unnamed sailor at sea who finds himself in a series of traumatic circumstances. First, his vessel...

Nightmare Abbey concerns the unhappy love interests of one Scythrop Glowry, as those interests take shape at various times in the persons of Miss Marionetta O’Carroll and Miss Celinda Toobad. Do these characters represent deliberate portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his first wife, Harriet,...