Smk Books imprint: 112 books
by Francis Bacon
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Francis Bacon is considered the father of modern science. He proposed, at his time, a great reformation of all process of knowledge for the advancement of learning divine and human. He called it Instauratio Magna (The Great Instauration). Bacon planned his Great Instauration in imitation of the Divine...
Parallel Lives
Volume 2
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...
by Samuel Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
'Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady' tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is one of the longest novels in the English language. Clarissa Harlowe is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently...
Clarissa Harlowe -Vol. 9-
The History of a Young Lady
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
'Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady' tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is one of the longest novels in the English language. Clarissa Harlowe is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently...
Among the Meadow People
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
'Among the Meadow People' includes twenty-eight charming tales about the everyday life of the meadow creatures. The tales are told in such a manner that they seem realistic, and are not only entertaining, but educational.
Clarissa Harlowe -Vol. 8-
The History of a Young Lady
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
'Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady' tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is one of the longest novels in the English language. Clarissa Harlowe is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently...
D. Octavius Caesar Augustus
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars Vol. II
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
The Twelve Caesars', is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary,...
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.
by Samuel Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
'Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady' tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is one of the longest novels in the English language. Clarissa Harlowe is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become wealthy only recently...
The Light Princess
and Other Fairy Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2015
A king and queen have a daughter and invite everyone to the christening except the king's sister Princess Makemnoit, a spiteful and sour woman. She arrives without an invitation and curses the princess to have no gravity. Whenever the princess accidentally moves up in the air, she has to be brought...
Among the Forest People
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
'Among the Forest People' includes twenty charming tales about the everyday life of the forest creatures. The tales are told in such a manner that they seem realistic, and are not only entertaining, but educational.
Cautionary Tales for Children
Also including: A Moral Alphabet; A Bad Child's Book of Beasts; More Beasts for Worse Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2015
Cautionary tales are traditional folklore stories used to teach children of dangers. Hilaire Belloc's 'Cautionary Tales' have been warning children from danger for over a hundred years. This book also includes three more of Belloc's works, 'A Moral Alphabet,' 'A Bad Child's Book of Beasts' and 'More Beasts for Worse Children.'
Army Life in a Black Regiment
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South...
The Sorceress of Rome
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The third rebellion of Johannes Crescentius, Senator of Rome, enacted after the death of the pontiff and the election of Sylvester II, forms but the prelude to the great drama whose final curtain was to fall upon the doom of the third Otto, of whose love for Stephania, the beautiful wife of Crescentius,...