True North: 481 books

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which has given them so widely-extended a fame.  

This is Maude L. Radford's retelling of the classic tale of King Arthur.

This is the Thomas Bulfinch version of the King Arthur myth, published just as the first studies of mythography were appearing in Germany, and it presents the myths in their literary versions, without unnecessary violence, sex, psychology or ethnographic information.

"Miss Brill," the bittersweet story of a fragile woman living an ephemeral life of observation and simple pleasures in Paris, established Mansfield as one of the preeminent writers of the Modernist period. The title story, which involved a similar character facing her husband's infidelity, also found critical acclaim. -Wikipedia

I. ABRAHAM'S FOUR SURRENDERS    II. THE CALL OF MOSES    III. NAAMAN THE SYRIAN    IV. THE PROPHET NEHEMIAH    V. HEROD AND JOHN THE BAPTIST    VI. THE MAN BORN BLIND AND JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA    VII. THE PENITENT THIEF

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog),[Note 1] published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.  

The name of Daniel Boone is a conspicuous one in the annals of our country. And yet there are but few who are familiar with the events of his wonderful career, or who have formed a correct estimate of the character of the man. Many suppose that he was a rough, coarse backwoodsman, almost as savage...

You've heard the music and read the biographies. Now gain insight to the greats of popular music through their own words. This book is a collection of some of the most memorable quotes from the premier artists of pop, rock, jazz, and the blues. Comments on the business of making music are found here as well as many fascinating and often surprising observations on life in general.

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. Wells is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively.     The term "time machine", coined...

The following brief sketches are presented in fear and in hope--in fear lest they prove in no wise adequate for so glorious a subject; in the hope that they may encourage not only the pupil, but the teacher, to study the lives and the works of the great artists and to make every possible effort to have copies of masterpieces ever before them to study and to love.

On the whole, an artist in England gains something by being attacked. His individuality is intensified. He becomes more completely himself. Of course, the attacks are very gross, very impertinent, and very contemptible. But then no artist expects grace from the vulgar mind, or style from the suburban intellect.

Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home:  Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.  Long through thy weary crowds I roam;  A river-ark on the ocean brine,  Long I've been tossed like the driven foam:  But now, proud world! I'm going home.

Both of these texts, The ABCs of Science by Charles Oliver and Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson, are among the most popular and acclaimed titles ever produced in the science/nature genre. Now both volumes are available together in this single book.

This two-volume book serves a guide to the best popular music ever recorded and the artists who created and recorded it. The book covers a number of genres that comprise popular music including pop, rock, blues, jazz, country, reggae, hip hop, ragtime, folk, and others. The premier performers of these...