Fall River Press: 140 books

Like England’s Charles II, the Ottoman Empire took “an unconscionable time dying.” Since the seventeenth century, observers had been predicting the collapse of this so-called Sick Man of Europe, yet it survived all its rivals. As late as 1910, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents. Unlike...

Most history-minded Americans have discussed the Vietnam War, becoming familiar, at the very least, with the names of such pivotal events as the Siege of Khe Sanh, the Tet Offensive, and the Fall of Saigon. But to grasp the full impact of this agonizing conflict, the human costs of an infernal war that...

A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories is a gift box full of Dickens’s writings and reflections on the Yuletide season. It includes the full text of A Christmas Carol, featuring all eight illustrations from the first edition by John Leech, the artist who gave fanciful form to Dickens’ vision...

In his poetry, Robert Frost made plainspoken men and women eloquent philosophers on the human condition. Robert Frost: Selected Poems is a unique collection of more than 100 poems by this well-known twentieth-century American poet. It includes the full contents of his first three volumes of poetry--A...

As millions of people know, becoming an American citizen isn’t as easy as just showing up. The process of applying for citizenship is a lengthy one, involving questions of residency, basic proficiency in English, and promising to uphold the provisions of the United States Constitution. And, just...

You Don't Say! Discover the mother lode of trivia with this quirky collection of crap! Trivia for the Toilet: Double Duty offers up more than 250 odd-but-true facts and strange happenings, including: • The Green Bay Packers' season ticket waiting list is so long that if you joined today, it would...

*"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." -Henri Matisse Make Every Day Beautiful* is a stunning compendium of inspiring thoughts, heartfelt truths, and, of course, beauty. Hundreds of rousing, comforting, and profound quotes and truisms have been carefully compiled...

Horror rides astride a shadowy steed and fantastic beings haunt daylit settings in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Macabre Tales, a collection of the best weird fiction of Washington Irving. Blending sly humor with supernatural thrills, these tales are among the best loved of all American literature....

Mark Twain left his indelible imprint on American fiction with his humorous tales of rogues and rustics who live along the Mississippi River--among them The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, regarded by many literary enthusiasts as the great American novel. But in his satirical appraisals of personal...

“Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.” —Alexander Hamilton   An illegitimate child, born in the Caribbean, who arrived in America as a near-penniless teenager, Alexander Hamilton did not seem to have much in common with the rest of the Founding Fathers. But the audacious young immigrant...

You do not lead by hitting people over the head—that’s assault, not leadership. —Dwight D. Eisenhower   What would George Washington think of today’s 24-hour news cycle? While the Founding Fathers were strong proponents of a free press, they may have been unnerved at seeing their every gaffe...

America’s Founding Fathers were men of words as well as deeds. Keenly intelligent and deeply committed to their ideals and to the cause for American independence, they left us a legacy of addresses and documents whose profound ideas still speak with authority. The Essential Wisdom of the Founding...

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I am with my country from this day on. You may depend on it. —John Adams   When the American colonies launched their unprecedented revolution that not only defeated the British Empire, but also founded the world’s first modern democracy,...

Adam Smith is often considered the first modern economist. His magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations (1776), is widely credited with laying the theoretical and philosophical foundations for capitalism. The work had an immediate impact on economic thinking, in light of its arguments for the freedom...