Smk Books imprint: 112 books
Four Arthurian Romances
"Yvain"
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
In the poem, Yvain seeks to avenge his cousin Calogrenant who had been defeated by an otherworldly knight Esclados beside a magical storm-making stone in the forest of Brocéliande. Yvain defeats Esclados and falls in love with his widow Laudine. Chrétien's works include five major poems in rhyming...
Oedipus at Colonos
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Oedipus was the son of King Laius and Queen Jocasta. Before he was born, his parents consulted the Oracle at Delphi. The Oracle prophesied that Oedipus would murder his father and marry his mother. In an attempt to prevent this prophecy's fulfillment, Laius ordered Oedipus's feet to be bound together,...
A First Book in American History
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
See the times as they were: the people, the places, the food, the importance of events as they happened. From Columbus' boyhood to his discovery voyage; John Cabot; Henry Hudson; William Penn; Ben Franklin; Washington; Jefferson; Daniel Boone; Fulton; Morse and the telegraph; Lincoln; Civil War; Spanish...
Jataka Tales
I & II
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Ellen C. Babbitt has collected, and retold the best thirty-nine of the 547 Jataka Tales. These charming fables originated in India sometime around the fifth century, and have been teaching children valuable lessons ever since.
Among the Night People
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
'Among the Night People' includes fifteen charming tales about the everyday life of the night creatures. The tales are told in such a manner that they seem realistic, and are not only entertaining, but educational.
by M. B. Synge
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
"The Awakening of Europe" covers the reformation in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and England, as well as the settlement of colonies in America. The rise of England and the Netherlands as sea powers, and the corresponding fall of Spain, as well as the rise of Russia, Austria, and the German states are also presented.
by Selma Lagerloef
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Nils is a young lad who likes nothing more than eating and sleeping. He is also a very mean little boy who likes to torment animals. One day he catches a tomte who turns Nils into a tomte, which leaves him shrunken and able to talk with animals, who are thrilled to see the boy reduced to their size and are angry and hungry for revenge.
by Johnny Gruelle
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
When my mother made Raggedy Ann for me, Bessie's mother made a rag doll for her, for we two always played together. Bessie's doll was given the name of Raggedy Andy, and one of the two dolls was named after the other, so that their names would sound alike. They had faces just alike, I do not remember...
by Edward Gibbon
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.
Aias
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Sophocles' play is a famous retelling of Aias's (Ajax's) demise. After the armor is awarded to Odysseus, Aias feels so insulted that he wants to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus. Athena intervenes and clouds his mind and vision, and he goes to a flock of sheep and slaughters them, imagining they are the...
An Enemy of the People
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
'An Enemy of the People' addresses the irrational tendencies of the masses, and the hypocritical and corrupt nature of the political system that they support. It is the story of one brave man's struggle to do the right thing and speak the truth in the face of extreme social intolerance.
by Plutarch
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving Parallel Lives, contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair...
The Essential Rudolf Steiner
Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man; An Esoteric Cosmology; Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path; An Introduction to Waldorf Education; How to Know Higher Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of Rudolf Steiner's most important works: 'Theosophy: An Introduction to the Supersensible Knowledge of the World and the Destination of Man,' 'An Esoteric Cosmology,' 'Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path,' 'An Introduction to Waldorf Education,'...
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Compiled here are some of Chaucer's shorter poems. These poems are all written using the Dream Vision. To name a few of these poems: The Book of Duchesse, The Parliament of Fowls, The Legend of Good Women, The House of Fame and other short poems.