Artisan: 415 books

Ivan Turgenev gave his generation a literary legacy that dealt with the extraordinary moral complexities of his age. A novel of haunting beauty, Torrents of Spring is a fascinating account of one of Turgenev's favorite themes: man's inability to love without becoming a slave to the destructive...

Voltaire – A Sketch of His Life and Works is a compilation of some of Voltaire’s greatest themes, quotes and sketches. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays and historical and scientific works....

“He gave the taste vogue, teaching the courtiers to smoke their pipes  with silver bowls, and supplying them with the leaf.” -Stebbing’s description of Raleigh introducing pipes and tobacco to England. William Stebbing crafts a deft portrait of one of the most notable figures...

Feel like someone’s watching? You’re probably right. Your anonymity is an illusion. The trend toward constant surveillance is disturbing. Supporters often argue, "If you're obeying the law, you have nothing to fear." But is that true? While many refuse to acknowledge...

The Mighty Magician, Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s Faustian story of religious conversion is his sublime musing on the human condition and one of the greatest works of the Spanish golden age. It looks forward to such modern dramatic themes as our ever-changing perceptions of reality and the...

Praise for this edition of the timeless classic, The Right To Privacy by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren: Feel like someone’s watching? You’re probably right. Your anonymity is an illusion. The trend toward constant surveillance is disturbing. Supporters...

In Invasion of the Super-Ants a new strain of super-intelligent, venomous ants invade Fleet Street, devouring all in their path including a bus-load of passengers. Watching horrified, Henry Mayence, Mr. Vidal douse themselves in gasoline as a deterrent—but how long can they hold out against...

Speke’s Journal is the classic travelogue by the British Army officer John Hanning Speke, that describes the daily trials and tribulations of his safari in search of the source of Africa’s Nile River. Despite being temporarily blinded and deafened, he returned with a memoir that describes...

First published in Top-Notch Magazine, December 1919, When Super-Apes Plot may just have been the very first, the original, of the humanoid ape tale to appear in media, decades before King Kong was a twinkle in Merian C. Cooper’s eye. The dystopian fantasy of apes taking on the status and...

The Untamed is the pioneering novel set in the Wild West by American author Max Brand, as he joined the ranks of the legendary Zane Grey, Owen Wister, and Louis L'Amour. First published in 1919, The Untamed helped create the familiar archetypes of character, setting, and action that dominate...

Alcestis is the oldest surviving play of Euripides and the closest thing we have to an extant example of a satyr play. It is the story of a woman who agrees to save her husband's life by dying in his place. Though the story appears relatively simple it too has been the object of study and...

Often described as "the lost book" of the Bible, The Book of Enoch is one of the most well-known apocalyptic works in existence. Biblical scholars believe it to have been written in Palestine by Enoch the Patriarch and several different authors in the first and second centuries B.C. For...

ALEXANDER KUPRIN (1870-1938) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the last exponents of the great tradition of Russian social realism. His best-known novel, The Pit (Yama), is an overwhelming indictment of the timeless evil of prostitution. It is not without cause that YAMA...

"You wish to be called righteous rather than act right…" Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, The Eumenides, one of Aeschylus’ earliest surviving tragedies, is one of the most enduring dramas ever written. After the murder of his mother, Orestes wanders as an outcast....