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Meditations in Verse – The Sonnets of Marcus Aurelius presents thirty-one key passages of Meditations in prose and parallel verse. Poet James Blake has set the philosophy classic to music, bringing the deeply spiritual text to life in a moving and dynamic way. The poetry illuminates, commentates and ultimately celebrates Meditations. *Includes Marcus Aurelius image gallery.

First published in 1903, James Allen’s As a Man Thinketh has never been out of print and continues to find new legions of fans in the digital age. Described by Allen as "A book that will help you to help yourself,"  it is in many ways the first self-help book. This new digital edition...

“The truth is hypothetical.” Scepticism (or skepticism), the belief that requires all information to be well supported by evidence, originated in the Skeptikoi, a first century BC Greek school who “asserted nothing.” The school was founded by Aenesidemus; our main source of the school’s...

“No man was ever wise by chance.” ― Seneca Seneca's Dialogues—as his epistolary essays have traditionally been known— capture the full range of the Roman thinker’s philosophical interests, in particular Stoicism and his unique interpretation of it. Students of Stoicism...

Volume 3 presents three Penny Dreadful classics for Kobo: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Mysteries of Paris Vols.1-3 and The Compensation House, a rare short story by Charles Collins, brother of Wilkie.  *Beautifully illustrated with original art.  *Over 1,000 pages...

A retired insurance investigator with an itch, an adventurer from China, a curious lawyer, an opera buff and a Sherlock Holmes emulator are the stars of British Mystery Multipack Volume 10 – British Super Sleuths: Hunted Down by Charles Dickens       Lady Alicia’s Diamonds...

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.” - Seneca. Seneca Six Pack represents the full range of Lucius Annaeus Seneca’s philosophy. Included are five of his original works and a full-length biography by Francis Caldwell Holland. On the Happy Life....

Core blimey, mate! It’s British Mystery Multipacks Volume 11, a crackling cornucopia of classic cozy mysteries from across the pond: The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe, and its sequel The Mystery of Marie Roget Edgar Allan Poe invented the detective genre with these...

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.” ― Winston S. Churchill. An eyewitness account of life in ancient Egypt from the Father of History, legendary Greek historian Herodotus; a concise biography of Marie Antoinette...

“With law shall our land be settled, and with lawlessness wasted.” - The Saga of Njal, chapter 69. Saga Six Pack 7 is a sizzling smorgasbord of sagas for fans of Viking literature and history. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Saga...

Saga Six Pack 4 presents a sizzling sextet of Scandinavian super-sagas: In The Days of Giants - A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell Brown. Saga of Halfdan the Black by Snorri Sturluson True and Untrue by George Webbe Dasent Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and his Brothers Eystein and Olaf by Snorri...

"My head expanded wider and wider, revolving with inconceivable rapidity, and enlarging in space with every revolution. It filled the room - the house - the city; it became a world, peopled with the shapes of men and monsters. I spun away into its great vortex, and wandered about its expanses...

British Mystery Multipack Vol. 15 presents four brilliant mysteries from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction: The Paradise Mystery by J. S. Fletcher. In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis. The Wooden Hand - A Detective Story by Fergus Hume. The Maxwell Mystery by Carolyn Wells.

The classic Danish thriller dubbed 'The First Crime Novel.'  The trial of Pastor Søren Jensen Quist of Vejlby took place at Aarhus in 1626. The trial centered around the unexplained disappearance in 1607 of a farm laborer named Jesper Hovgaard who was employed at Pastor Quist's rectory. Fifteen...