Star Lamp: 152 books

Among the Brigands by James De Mille,a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canadian popular writer who published numerous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s.

Rollo in Naples by the American writer of children's books,Jacob Abbott.His Rollo Books are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier.

A Foregone Conclusion by the American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright,William Dean Howells.In 1856, Howells was elected as a clerk in the State House of Representatives. In 1858 he began to work at the Ohio State Journal where he wrote poetry, short stories, and also translated pieces...

Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga by Giovanni Carmelo Verga simple known as Giovanni Verga.He was an Italian realist (Verismo) writer, best known for his depictions of life in his native Sicily, and especially for the short story (and later play) Cavalleria Rusticana and the novel I Malavoglia (The House by the Medlar Tree).

The Spirit of the Ghetto: Studies of the Jewish Quarter in New York by Hutchins Hapgood,an American journalist, author and anarchist.He obtained his first employment with the New York Commercial Advertiser (later known as the New York Globe). His mentor there was Lincoln Steffens, the muckraking reporter....

India What can it teach us? by the Germany philogist and Orientalist,F. Max Muller.This book will tell you about an epitome of virtuosity and morality which glory is equal.

The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 by the American poet born in New York City, Emma Lazarus.She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty installed in 1903, a decade and a half after Lazarus's...

The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 by Popular Mechanics Company.Many projects are of contemporary interest—magic, kites and boomerangs for example. Try a "Querl" for starters.There are many projects of purely historical interest, such as chemical photography, phonographs, and devices for coal furnaces.

Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries by Albrecht Durer,a painter, printmaker and theorist of the German Renaissance.He was in communication with the major Italian artists of his time, including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and Leonardo da Vinci, and from 1512 he was patronized by emperor...

The Jewish Manual by Lady Judith Cohen Montefiore.This book will tell you how to cook food and this book is useful for the cook.

Theaetetus by Plato.This book is one of Plato's dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge.In the dialogue,Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions on knowledge:knowledge as nothing but perception,knowledge as true judgment,and finally knowledge as a true with an account.Each definations is shown to be unsatisfactory.

The Elephant God by Gordon Casserly.The Elephant God also known as Ganesha,this is one of the best-known and most worshipped god in the Hindu pantheon.This book will tell you about derivation of Ganesha.

The liberation of Italy, 1815-1870 by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by the English editor, novelist and sporting writer, Robert Smith Surtees.He widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family.