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The third and final volume of Louisa May Alcott’s stories for her niece, Lulu, contains more realistic moral fables than the previous two. Her inspiring fantasy stories and fairy tales are also included.

The author of The Thirty-Nine Steps knew more than one way to chill a reader. His early forays into fantasy and the supernatural drew on Scotland’s rich legend and myth and carried into the rest of the world. Stories include “No Man’s Land,” “The Far Islands,” “The Outgoing of the Tide,” “Basilissa,” “The King of Ypres,” among others.

In 1915, the popular commentator was enlisted by the British War Propaganda Bureau. Here Chesterton explores the morality of war, and when it is justified. This collection includes “The War on the Word,” “The Refusal of Reciprocity,” “The Appetite of Tyranny,” “The Escape of Folly,” and “Letters to an Old Garibaldian.”

First published in 1897, this is Davis’s personal account of the guerilla warfare that played a part in the Cuban War of Independence. With his singular journalistic style that made him one of the best-known war correspondents of his day, Davis delivers a graphic, dramatic account of this turbulent time in history.

Published in 1917, this is the third volume of Richardson's masterful Pilgrimage sequence, tracing the life and interior consciousness of heroine Miriam Henderson by means of the then-revolutionary stream-of-consciousness technique (though Richardson herself preferred the term "interior monologue"). ...

Here is another of Surtees’s comic novels—this one sure to delight with its captivating portrait of Victorian absurdity. Renowned for his entertaining insight into the foibles of English hunting society, Surtees’s novels continue to delight readers today.

Deeply interested in the development of mankind, Wells wrote Mankind in the Making to present his general theory of social development and of social and political conduct. In the mind of the British public, this novel established Wells as a leading advocate for social progress.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "Your articles on the Plains are by far the best I have ever read," - William T. Sherman to George Armstrong CusterTwo years before he became a legend at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer penned...

In this carefully constructed critical essay, written in 1894, Tolstoy admonishes a government that wages war by arousing patriotic fervor and a Church that supports such a government’s policies. His argument—that war and patriotism have nothing in common with the Christian principles of nonviolence and nonresistance—continues to resound today.

A seminal work of philosophy and an invaluable resource for students of aesthetics, this volume deeply influenced a generation of art historians. Author Benedetto Croce’s theory that art is expression—his signature contribution to aesthetics—allowed art historians to accept many artifacts previously deemed unworthy of study as valuable contributions to the history of art.

This pioneering 1893 work of psychic research examines hypnotism and telepathy, suggesting conversations with “spirits” were really encounters with the subconscious. The author discusses the power of suggestion, his interpretation of the teachings of Jesus, and argues that all psychic phenomena are...

Rejecting appeals to authority as well as “shallow and jaunty skepticism,” the author, a noted law enforcement officer and theologian, considers the Bible as a human document. With a point of view that is at once open-minded and devout, he considers questions of miracles, divine inspiration, and criticism, seeking a modern vision of faith.

In As a Man Thinketh, universally acknowledged as a self-help classic, James Allen argues we are what we think.  Positive thinking changes our circumstances in constructive ways, as surely as negative thinking brings us down.  Each has tangible impact on health, well-being, and achievement. Readers...

Winston S. Churchill's A History of the English Speaking Peoples is the literary masterwork of the twentieth century's greatest historical figure. Beginning with Marlborough's victory at Blenheim in 1704 and ending with Wellington's defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815, Churchill recounts Britain's...