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Canadian author Stephen Leacock gained popular acclaim as a much-loved humor writer, publishing dozens of books in that vein over the course of his career. However, he was a trained scholar by trade who was also quite active in the realm of academic publishing. This historical chronicle of the life and...

The first few novels by James Owen Hannay, an Irish clergyman who wrote under the name "George A. Birmingham," caused a national controversy and nearly imploded his career in the church when Catholics accused him of bigotry. Perhaps in response to this, Hannay's literary style changed to focus more on...

This work details the dramatic final days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The action opens with Mary's unjust imprisonment and ends with her execution, which is ultimately ordered by Mary's morally conflicted cousin, Queen Elizabeth of England. Schiller's play is widely regarded as one of the finest literary...

Norman Angell's 1910 work The Great Illusion proved to be a major breakthrough in twentieth-century geopolitical thinking, although its central argument that global conflict was increasingly unlikely because of its mutually deleterious consequences was called into question by two world wars. In the sequel...

Educator and noted feminist thinker Alice Moore Hubbard was an important early voice in the fight for equal legal and social rights for women. In The Myth in Marriage, Hubbard takes a look at the large and small ways in which traditional marriage roles tend to subjugate women. The book provides a fascinating...

Renowned American author James Fenimore Cooper had a lifelong fascination with the sea -- and a deep appreciation for the brave men who spent their lives traversing it. In the novel Miles Wallingford, the sequel to Cooper's Afloat and Ashore, Cooper focuses on the life story of one remarkable sailor, the Wallingford of the title, who recounts his exploits on the sea as a young man.

In the early 1880s, anti-European sentiment began to take hold throughout Egypt, with some rioters targeting the sitting government and the French and British business interests in the region. In this thrilling action-adventure tale geared for younger audiences, the British Mediterranean Fleet fights back with a stunning show of force.

This volume contains two short stories from the master of historical action-adventure for younger audiences, G. A. Henty. In the title tale, "The Golden Canyon," long-time chums Tom and Dick leave their native England for a dangerous but potentially lucrative gold-seeking expedition in the desolate badlands of Arizona.

In 1832, amid the rough and tumble chaos of what is now Southern California, a brave sailor named William Harland saves a young man from Mexico from certain death when he is attacked by a roving band of marauders. The two become fast friends -- and soon find themselves caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Action-adventure novelist G. A. Henty was renowned for his ability to craft explosive, unexpected plot twists, and the mystery at the center of A Search for a Secret is a prime example of the author's top-notch narrative skills. When Agnes Ashleigh is unexpectedly bequeathed a fortune, she believes her...

What does the word "wealth" mean to you? If it brings to mind nothing but a fat bank-account balance and a life of leisure, you may be missing the point, according to T.S. Arthur. In this volume, Arthur discusses how changing the way that the think about wealth can put you on the path to unprecedented affluence -- and personal fulfillment.

In the days leading up to the Franco-Prussian War of the late nineteenth century, the political and social climate of Paris shifted dramatically. English teenager Cuthbert Harrington has been stripped of his inheritance due to the malfeasance of his attorney and drifts toward Paris to pursue his education....

In the gripping short novel "Flight From Tomorrow," the eccentric leader Hradzka finds his life turned upside down in an instant when a reversal of fortune sees him ousted from the throne. To escape certain death, he vanishes into the timestream. Will he ever make it back to the future and the civilization over which he once reigned supreme?

Teacher turned writer Ian Hay scored a major bestseller with this moving account of his experiences on the front lines of World War I. Alternating between laugh-out-loud hilarity and heart-rending scenes of tragedy, this richly detailed memoir conveys the complexity of battle.