Enhanced E Books: 167 books

A book that caused a huge sensation when it was first published, this is a vivid account of German preparations to invade England, released at a time when tensions between the countries were rising. Named by The Guardian newspaper as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time, The Riddle of the Sands...

Rudolf Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published philosophical works including 'The Philosophy of Freedom.' At the beginning of the twentieth century, he founded a spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist...

Volume 5 of The Aleister Crowley Collection presents six Crowley classics: three complete early poetry collections, two famous plays and one major work from Crowley’s middle period. The first section contains poetry that Crowley himself would have been inclined to class as juvenilia.  Included...

"I am the Alpha and the Omega .. the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come … the Almighty. " The Book of Revelation, often known simply as Revelation or The Apocalypse, is the final book of the Bible and is the only purely apocalyptic book in the New Testament. The...

"Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is...

“The future isn’t what it used to be.” The term steampunk describes the use of Victorian (steam-powered) technology in a futuristic setting. The aesthetic appears in contemporary imaginary fiction to suggest what might have been, extrapolating nineteenth-century ideas into far-flung alternative...

“But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground. Soviet Six Pack presents six of the finest examples of classic Russian...

The Dostoyevsky Collection presents the four masterworks for which Russian literary giant Fyodor Dostoyevsky is best known, his two novellas The Gambler and Notes from Underground, and his two lengthier masterpieces Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. The Dostoyevsky Collection...

“Over the sea there dwelt a queen whose like was never known, for she was of vast strength and surpassing beauty. With her love as the prize, she vied with brave warriors at throwing the javelin, and the noble lady also hurled the weight to a great distance and followed with a long leap; and whoever...

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.” -Epicurus Founded in the fourth century BC, Epicureanism was the main alternative philosophy to its popular rival Stoicism. Based upon the teachings of Greek philosopher Epicurus, the...

In his brilliant dialogue, Symposium, Plato presents an imaginary dinner-party set in Athens in 416 BC where the guests include Aristophanes, Socrates and the most popular Athenian of his day, golden boy Alcibiades. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the...

Palace intrigue, high seas piracy, the first war in Afghanistan, Elizabethan politics and TR’s take on the War of 1812 – it’s all here and more in Strategy Six Pack Six, another awesome military multi-manual for historians and tacticians. In this six-pack: The Suppression of Piracy by Henry...

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” ― Abraham Lincoln. Recollections of life on a plantation pre-Civil War, a thrilling slave escape story, Fifty Years in Chains by Charles Ball, a famous essay on Slavery and...

George Eliot fans are in for a treat! Included in this six pack:  Middlemarch Virginia Woolf described Eliot’s Middlemarch as "the magnificent book that, with all its imperfections, is one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." Martin Amis and Julian Barnes have cited...