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This volume deals with the myths and legends of the Teutonic peoples--Norsemen, Goths, Vandals, Burgundians, Franks, Angles, Saxons, and all the other Germanic tribes whose descendants now occupy England, Northern France, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland....

The History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina is an account by William Byrd II of the surveying of the border between the U.S. states of North Carolina and Virginia in 1728. Byrd's account of the journey to survey the contentious border with his chief surveyor William Mayo included...

Posdnyschew, Mörder seiner Frau, wegen Handelns aus Eifersucht freigesprochen, frühzeitig ergraut, mit blitzenden Augen und nervösem Gebaren, hört auf einer längeren Zugfahrt, wie die Reisenden über Liebe als Grundbedingung für eine glückliche Ehe diskutieren - eine Ansicht, die vor allem...

Edgar Allan Poe gehört auch heute noch zu den meist gelesenen Autoren überhaupt. Seine Horror- und Kriminalgeschichten gehören zum Besten was Literatur zu bieten hat. Dieser Band umfasst eine Biographie des Autors, über 20 Gedichte, seinen Roman "Arthur Pym", über 50 Erzählungen und seinen Essay "Heureka".

Mardi is Melville's first pure fiction work (while featuring fictional narrators, his previous novels were heavily autobiographical). It details (much like Typee and Omoo) the travelings of an American sailor who abandons his whaling vessel to explore the South Pacific. Unlike the first two, however,...

Timoleon is a rare collection of Melville's best poems and contains more than 40 of his lyrical writings.

This essay was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge for the year 1785 and was influential for Clarkson's further career. Thomas Clarkson was an English abolitionist, and a leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire. He was not only instrmuental in achieving...

It is now more than one hundred years since Lane gave to the world his admirable work on the Egyptians. It has become a classic, and no writer has given us such unsurpassed descriptions of the manners and customs of the people. Lane went to Egypt in 1825, and adopting the native customs, and with...

Both books contained in this beautiful edition belong to the classics in Canadian literature. Written by the author of the Anne of Green Gables bestsellers they feature an abundance of short stories all set in the fictional village of Avonlea. Contents: Chronicles Of Avonlea I. The Hurrying Of Ludovic...

This book is accompanying Atkinson's main work entitled "The Secret of Mental Magic," and being in the nature of a sequel, supplement, or "side-light" thereto. It is designed to bring out the details, and special features of several of the "lessons" of which "The...

William Walker Atkinson was not only a pioneer of the New Thought movement but also the author of many occult and spiritual works which he published under the pseudonym of Yogi Ramacharaka. When writing under this alias he claimed to be a Hindu. Indeed, he was not, but he was imperative to make Eastern...

An Interpretation of Life In its Relation to Health and Happiness. "It is singularly free from anything of a visionary nature, and will appeal to men and women of conviction who have hitherto taken small interest in metaphysical thought." - —B. O. Flower, in The Arena. This volume has...

James M. Barrie was not only the creator of Peter Pan and the other famous characters of that story. He was also a brilliant dramatist and the best of his theatre works are represented in this edition. Contents: The Admirable Crichton Quality Street What Every Woman Knows Dear Brutus Alice Sit-By-The-Fire

"The Evil Eye" was published in January of 1829 by Mary Shelley for The Keepsake. The story is set in Albania and takes on a much different feel to the other short stories that Shelley published. The story is centered on its namesake, Dmitri of the Evil Eye, who was a distinguished Albanian...