Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

From the foreword by Philip Dossick: “The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution was proposed on January 31, 1865. In part, it reads as follows: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall...

How do you conquer the problem of scaling software development to hundreds or thousands of simultaneous workers using thousands or hundreds of thousands of project artifacts during the course of development of a software product? In A Virtual Environment Framework for Software Engineering,...

In one of the most significant of Dostoyevsky’s existential classics, White Nights, his unnamed protagonist is a sensitive resident of a very Westernized St. Petersburg of the mid-nineteenth century. He describes himself as a "dreamer" and a loner. Indeed he is a young recluse...

In 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin sailed to the island of Tahiti, to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise. He kept a journal chronicling his thoughts and impressions of that time. Noa Noa—the most widely known of Gauguin's writings—is reproduced here from a rare early...

In Sir Walter Scott’s classic tale, The Black Dwarf (Sir Edward Mauley, a hermit regarded by the locals as being in league with the Devil) becomes entangled in an intricate tale of love, revenge, betrayal, and a threatened forced marriage. Set in the immediate aftermath of the Union between...

Three Novellas by Philip Dossick BOOK ONE The Deposition BOOK TWO Mark Twain in Seattle BOOK THREE Gina and Frank: A Brief Conversation With Strangers PHILIP DOSSICK is the New York Times critically acclaimed writer and director of the motion picture The P.O.W. He...

FRANK L. PACKARD (1877-1942), a Canadian Novelist and railway engineer, wrote the Jimmie Dale mysteries and other works, including The Miracle Man The Beloved Traitor, The Sin That Was His, The Wire Devils, Coogan's Last Run, The Night Operator and Pawned. Doors of the Night is quite possibly his...

  If you’ve ever been curious about where the term masochism comes from, you will find it in the pages of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s masterwork, Venus in Furs His protagonist, Severin, is so infatuated with the object of his desire, Wanda, that he asks to become her slave....

ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK (1873-1935) was a best-selling American author. Her novels often explored the clash of values between Americans and Europeans. Her best-selling novel Tante was made into a 1919 film, The Impossible Woman. In 1908, she married the famed British essayist and journalist,...

”Ligeia,” which Edgar Allan Poe considered his consummate tale, predates The Raven by seven years, although they go hand-in-hand, both detailing the insanity brought on by the grief and loss of a dearly beloved wife. It is widely considered to be one of the top 100 romances of all time. EDGAR...

Émile Zola’s The Death of Olivier Becaille is irresistible. Like the best of Poe, it tells its story with supreme suspense. Considered one of Zola's masterworks, The Death was a huge commercial success and helped establish Zola's fame and reputation throughout France and the world....

ANATOLE FRANCE (1844-1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. He became famous with the novel Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [1881]. The novel was praised...

For over 150 years, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Birth-Mark has captivated critics and readers alike. Dr. Aylmer, the protagonist, undertakes to remove a blemish from his wife Georgiana’s cheek to satisfy his own spiritual strivings and to redeem what he sees as a failed career. Since the mark...

Im Jahr 1919 sagte Thomas Mann, dass Effi Briest einer der "sechs wichtigsten Romane war, die jemals geschrieben wurden". In Bismarcks Deutschland ist Fontane's brillante Geschichte eines sozialen, aber emotional katastrophalen Spiels zwischen dem bezaubernden siebzehnjährigen Effi...