Benediction Classics

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Virginia WoolfClarissa Dalloway spends the day preparing for the party she is hosting that evening. Virginia Woolf, in lyri...

Reducere. In the character of Prince Myshkin, Dostoevsky, master of the philosphical novel, set himself the task of depicting "the positively good and beauti...

Reducere. DescriptionThere is much speculation about where and how Jesus spent his twenties. The bible does not tell us anything about his life during this t...

Reducere. DescriptionAbout two millennia ago, the sage Patanjali synthesized and organized the teachings on yoga from older traditions into an intricately co...

Reducere. Booker T. Washington (April 18, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an African American educator, leader, author and orator and was an adviser to several...

Reducere. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE, was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. His first exp...

Reducere. The novel "Between the Acts" and the extended essay "A Room of One's Own" address issues close to the author's heart.

This is a new edition of Frederick Treves book with the text having been editted to remove typographical errors. The story of Merrick's (the Elepha...

Reducere. B. B. Warfield, the last of the "Princeton Theologians", employs his rare exegetical skill to present a concise, compelling and thoroughly readable...

Reducere. Halmos begins, "Every mathematician agrees that every mathematician must know some set theory; the disagreement begins in trying to decide how much...

James Fenimore Cooper places the two beautiful Munro sisters in the midst of the the savagery of life on the frontier, dominated by feuding Indian ...

Reducere. "A gift to humanity" - Giuseppe Verde."The book's real greatness lies in its delineation of character" -- The Penguin Companion to European Literat...

Reducere. DescriptionThis visionary dystopian and apocalyptic novel of 1907 presents a future in which secular humanism has triumphed, with religion suppress...

Reducere. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the world's most famous Gothic novel and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein's monster being a symb...

Reducere. The six-year-old William Borden, secretly, in his childish hand, wrote "I want to be an honest man when I grow up, and true and kind and loving and...

Elnora lives by the Linderlost, a great swamp in Indiana, neglected by her depressed widowed mother. Her high school days are a trial, as the other...

Reducere. DescriptionKarel Čapek's brilliant comic and satirical novel of 1936 deals with the discovery of a sentient race of newts or salamanders, and their...

Reducere. "When you control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will...

Reducere. "When you control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will...

Reducere. The three Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, stand at the pinnacle of Greek tragedy. Even today they hold audiences t...

Reducere. John Galsworthy's celebrated Forsyte Saga, consisting of three novels and two interludes, completely reinvented and revitalised the family saga in ...

Reducere. An attractive new edition of Khalil Gibran's "Sand and Foam" as well as many other poems.

Reducere. DescriptionAn Old-Fashioned Girl, written by Louis May Alcott (author of the famous "Little Women" and "Little Men" novels), tells the story of Pol...

Reducere. Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary was the co-founder of the German Spartacus League, and an important figu...

The Great Plague of London instilled terror in the residents of London; a mysterious unseen enemy striking down a hundred thousand, no less than on...

Reducere. English edition.Das Kapital (Capital) is a truly revolutionary book; it was forged during the political and industrial revolutions of the nineteent...

In Civilization, Kenneth Clarke states "The first man to take full advantage of the printing press was Erasmus. It made him, and unmade him, becaus...

Reducere. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known as the "father of psychoanalysis" and his ideas, however controversial, were fundamental in shaping how the huma...

Reducere. To Richard Sibbes the Gospel was truly good news, and he "sought to allure us to ... Christ's mild, safe, wise, victorious government." He does jus...

Reducere. "I have just read your "Place of the Lion" and it is to me one of the major literary events of my life ... There are layers and layers-first the pl...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. 'Thy Servant a Dog and other Dog stories' brings together a delightful selection of Kipling short stories and poems. The first three tales, Thy Ser...

Reducere. "Throughout his long career, Frederick Douglass cut an imposing figure, renowned as an impassioned abolitionist, a fiery writer and newspaper edito...

Reducere. Jabez Stone seeks help from the lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain he has made with the Devil.

Reducere. Song of my soul, my voice is dead;// Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed// Shall dry and die in// Lost Carcosa.// With this song, taken from the fict...

Reducere. DescriptionJacob Riis, a police reporter and an immigrant himself, was intimately acquainted with the squalid living conditions in New York's tenem...

The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano), describing the behaviour of the ideal courtier (and court lady) was one of the most widely distributed bo...

Reducere. The Federalist Papers are a lucid series of initially anonymous political essays exhorting voters to ratify the Constitution of the United States, ...

Reducere. "The late Anna Botsford Comstock was the founder and first head of the Department of Nature Study at Cornell University and the first woman to be a...

Reducere. The Prose Edda, ranking with the world's great mythologies, contains the most extensive account of the Norse universe, from its creation to its des...

Reducere. DescriptionYoung's Literal Translation of the Bible is a strictly literal translation of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. It was written in 189...

Reducere. B. B. Warfield, Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, learned and lucid as ever, presents the reformed unde...

Reducere. This book ambitiously brings together all Longfellow's poems into a single volume. As well as his justly famous works such as 'Hiawatha', 'The Wrec...

Reducere. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter miser, hates Christmas and everything it stands for, but visits from the ghosts of Christmas past, Christmas present and...

Reducere. Mayne Reid's adventure novel, based on a South Texas folk tale, and inspired by Creed Taylor's true story of El Muerto.

Reducere. The Federalist Papers are a lucid series of initially anonymous political essays exhorting voters to ratify the Constitution of the United States, ...

Reducere. "I have just read your "Place of the Lion" and it is to me one of the major literary events of my life ... There are layers and layers-first the pl...

Reducere. Mark Twain's characters are surprising, unforgettable and truly human. The character Huckleberry Finn is based on one of Twain's childhood friends....

Reducere. Mark Twain's characters are surprising, unforgettable and truly human. The character Huckleberry Finn is based on one of Twain's childhood friends....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frederick DouglassDouglass' powerful account of his journey from slave, by way of determined self education, to being one o...

Reducere. A classic collection of Norse mythology, including the stories THE SIR, HOW THOR WENT TO JÖTUNHEIM, FREY, THE WANDERINGS OF FREYJA, IDUNA'S APPLES,...

Published in 1845, this little book was widely read by the public in the North who knew little about the inner workings of slavery. It was favorabl...

Reducere. Professor Franklin Hiram King made important contributions in soil science -- soil physics and soil fertility in particular. This book, perhaps the...

Reducere. DescriptionDue to overwhelming popular demand John Wesley prepared these notes towards the end of his life. He intended them for the devout Christi...

Reducere. H. P. Lovecraft spent his life in obscurity, publishing mostly in the pulp magazine ``Weird Tales, `` and died in poverty. Recognition came only af...

DescriptionThis edition contains a facsimile of each page of Blake's original illustrated mauscript with the text in a clear modern font on the fac...

Reducere. "The Student's Mythology" is an excellent introduction into this area. Its engaging "Question/Answer" format makes it very accessible to anyone int...

Reducere. Young's Literal Translation of the Bible is a strictly literal translation of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. It was written in 1898 by Robert...

Reducere. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter miser, hates Christmas and everything it stands for, but visits from the ghosts of Christmas past, Christmas present and...

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." - Napoleon Hill. "A detailed program for using the mind to attain one's desires .....

Reducere. Communion with God, or in full, "Of communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost each person distinctly, in love, grace, and consolation; or,...

If the trumpet does not sound a clear call, who will prepare for battle? ( I Cor. 14: 8) Here then is J. C Ryle's clear trumpet call presenting the...

Reducere. DescriptionAesop's fables are as fresh today as they have ever been. We have all heard of the hare and the tortoise and the boy who cried wolf - an...

Reducere. Arthur Wesley Dow was an American painter, printmaker, photographer, and influential arts educator. He taught many of America's leading artists and...

This book contains John Milton's poetical works, with line numbers and footnotes. This includes Paradise lost, Paradise Regain'd and Sampson Agonis...

Reducere. Dallas Willard writes "Deeper Experiences is the one book other than the Bible that has most influenced me. ... Readers should take from Lawson's b...

Reducere. The Practical Distiller is a lively and informative guide to the methods and problems of distillation, as practised in early 19th Century America. ...

Reducere. This edition gives a side-by-side parallel translation of Dante's Divine Comedy using Longfellow's translation. The Divine Comedy is an epic poem w...

Reducere. The complete text of Clough's edition of Plutarch's Lives; containing fifty lives and eighteen comparisons.

Reducere. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865), was a Victorian British writer. Her novels are fascinating to historians because they offer detailed portraits of ...