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Cover of Mrs. Warren's Profession
by George Bernard Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

"Mrs. Warren's Profession" is George Bernard Shaw's classic play that centers on the relationship between Mrs. Warren, a prostitute, and her prudish Cambridge-educated daughter Vivie, who is horrified to discover that her mother's wealth was acquired through the operation of whore-houses. Shaw offers...
Cover of Stories of Red Hanrahan, The Secret Rose, and Rosa Alchemica
by W. B. Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. Later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, Yeats produced a vast collection of stories, songs, and poetry of Ireland's historical...
Cover of The Black Sheep
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Listed by the British newspaper "The Guardian" as number 12 on a list of the 100 greatest novels of all-time, Honore de Balzac's "The Black Sheep" is another installment in his magnum opus "The Human Comedy." Agathe Rouget, who is born in Issoudun, is sent to be raised by her maternal relatives, the...
Cover of The Battle with the Slum
by Jacob A. Riis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Jacob A. Riis (1849-1941), pioneer of social documentary photography and journalism, occupies a singular position in the history of social journalism. Jacob A. Riis spent his life bringing to light the societal effects of urban decay and poverty in 19th century America. Here is presented his 1901 book...
Cover of The God of His Fathers and Other Stories
by Jack London
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Jack London was born into abject poverty in the slums of San Francisco during the winter of 1876. His writing was to reflect the hard life he lived, perpetually chronicling men facing the wild as he did throughout his life. After his eighth grade year, poverty forced London to leave school. This did...
Cover of The Science of Right
by Immanuel Kant
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

From the introduction: "The Science of Right has for its object the principles of all the laws which it is possible to promulgate by external legislation. Where there is such a legislation, it becomes, in actual application to it, a system of positive right and law; and he who is versed in the knowledge...
Cover of Hadji Murad
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

"Hadji Murad" was Tolstoy's last novel. It is a narrative based on actual events that occurred during the Russian war with the Chechens in 1850s Russia. Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and saw first hand the brutality of this war. "Hadji Murad" is the story of its central character. A soldier...
Cover of An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope
by Anthony Trollope
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born into little means. His difficult youth and early academic failure stacked the cards against him. Yet he became one of the 19th century's most revered and influential novelists, helping, along with Dickens and Thackeray, to define an era of Victorian literature. During...
Cover of The Downfall
by Emile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

"The Downfall (La Débâcle)" is Émile Zola’s 1892 novel, the penultimate in the Rougon-Macquart series, which is a story set against the background of the Franco-Prussian War, the Battle of Sedan and the Paris Commune, events that led to the end of the reign of Napoléon III and the Second French...
Cover of King Solomon's Mines
by H. R. Haggard
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

H. R. Haggard's "King Solomon's Mines" is quite simply one of the greatest adventure novels ever written. Originally published in 1885, "King Solomon's Mines" quickly became one of the best selling and most popular novels of the late 19th century. "King Solomon's Mines" is the story of elephant-hunter Allan Quatermain and his quest for a fabled treasure in the wilds of Africa.
Cover of The Book of Mormon
by Joseph Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This sacred text of the Later Day Saint movement was first published by Joseph Smith in 1830. "The Book of Mormon" was purportedly the result of divine revelation. According to the legend, Joseph Smith was visited by the Angel Moroni, who revealed to him the location of a secret collection of ancient...
Cover of Enchiridion and Selections from the Discourses of Epictetus
by Epictetus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Epictetus was an ancient Greek philosopher who lived between 55 and 135 AD and taught the philosophy of stoicism. Stoicism is the school of philosophy that teaches one to detach oneself from ones emotions so that truth may be derived from ones reason. To the stoic this detachment allows the natural law...
Cover of When We Dead Awaken
by Henrik Ibsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

"When We Dead Awaken" was Henrik Ibsen's final drama, which was first published in 1899. It is the story of a married couple, Arnold and Maia Rubek who while traveling find themselves romantically drawn to others, in the case of Maia it is Ulfheim, a brutal hunter, who is the object of her desire, for...
Cover of Anna Christie
by Eugene O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Eugene O'Neill's 1922 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Anna Christie," is the story of a young woman who following an illness decides to visit and spend some time with her father, a coal barge captain who she hardly knows. During this time she meets a sailor, Mat, who is looking to settle down, and the...
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