Revenant: 35 books

Baghdad, Basra, the Tigris, minarets, dust storms... Iraq, or as it was known for so long, Mesopotamia. Here is a Highland regiment, fighting the Turks, decades before Americans would fight their own battles among the dunes and the oases.

The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini was started in the year 1558 at the age of 58 and ended abruptly just before his last trip to Pisa around the year 1563 when Cellini was approximately 63 years old. The memoirs give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as his loves, hatreds, passions,...

An English eighteenth century cookbook loaded with recipes - albeit in sometimes quirky order (by today's standards) - for soups, stews, ragouts, puddings, pies, sausage,creams, wines, brandies and numerous varieties of meat, fowl and fish. With diagrams (towards the end) showing how to lay out tables for different seasonal meals. A classic in cooking literature.

Though a cook to nobility, Fracatelli once remarked that 'he could feed every day a thousand families on the food that was wasted in London'. That principal drove this book which includes a great deal of very English, down-to-earth cooking and very little of the more ornate style he practiced in...

A doctor relives his mysterious encounter with the unexplained as he narrates his ordeal to an inquisitive audience.

** The “Memoirs of Paris Past” collection presents fiction and non-fiction – travelers' guides, journals, histories, etc. - which wholly or in part shows Paris as it was at different points in history. If you love Paris and want to virtually stroll its streets in past times, search for “Memoirs...

This is considered by some to be the first truly American cookbook and by all to be the first regional American cookbook. This work is still in print and still forms the basis of traditional Virginia cooking. It has been praised by many culinary authorities both for its delineation of authentic Virginia...

** The “Memoirs of Paris Past” collection presents fiction and non-fiction – travelers' guides, journals, histories,etc. - which wholly or in part shows Paris as it was at different points in history. If you love Paris and want to virtually stroll its streets in past times, search for “Memoirs...

A parable of a man rejecting his own country and condemned to live without one.

The Spoon River Anthology (1915), a collection of short free-form poems that collectively describe the life of the fictional small town of Spoon River, named after the real Spoon River that ran near Masters' home town. The collection includes two hundred and twelve separate characters, all providing...

The letters of one of the world's greatest writers cover a wide range of subjects in a colorful life, including his visit to a prison colony, the failure of the first performance of "The Seagull", glimpses of the great actor and acting teacher Konstantine Stanislavsky, his increasing struggles with illness and the lives of those in his circle in late nineteenth century Russia.

The Decameròn is a 14th-century medieval allegory, told as a frame story encompassing 100 tales by ten young people. Boccaccio probably began composing the work in 1350, and finished it in 1351 or 1353. The various tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Tales of...

A captivating short story about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison.

** The Memoirs of Paris Past collection presents fiction and non-fiction – travelers' guides, journals, histories, etc. - which wholly or in part shows Paris as it was at different points in history. If you love Paris and want to virtually stroll its streets in past times, search for “Memoirs...