Classic Books

First published in the year 1904, the present book ‘Disraeli’ is a biography of renowned British politician and writer Benjamin Disraeli, who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In attempting the cure of inflammation, or its consequences, we must naturally be directed to the means of removal, by the nature of the action itself, and the object which we have in view. The treatment of the inflammatory action may be considered in two points of view; first, as this action consists in peculiar changes of the natural action, which changes we wish to remove; and, secondly, as this action naturally tends to disappear, and produce other actions, which require a peculiar treatment.

Malinda Elliott Cramer was a founder of the Church of Divine Science, a healer, and an important figure in the early New Thought movement. This book was originally published as Lessons in the Science of Infinite Spirit, and the Christ Method of Healing in 1890. Chapters include: Spiritual Experience In Works; The Effect of Thought; Law of Expression; Denial and Affirmation; Baptism By the Spirit; Expression of Consciousness; The Spoken Word, The Purpose of God; Heal the Sick; Facts About Healing; Faith and Belief A Unit; Overcoming Poverty; Immortality; Questions by Beginners; Theological Questions, and more.

They were both men. The one on the right of the nurse was middle-aged; the one on the left somewhat older. Both were gaunt, both were hollow-eyed, both had been given up by the doctors and attendants. Yet there was one point of difference between them. He on the left, the older of the two, had an incurable complaint for which no remedy was possible, while he on the right, though seemingly as ill as his fellow, was less seriously affected, and stood some chance of being saved if only he would arouse from his apathy and exert his will toward living. But nothing had as yet been found to interest him, and he seemed likely to die from sheer inanition. It is through this man’s eyes that we must observe the scene which presently took place in this quiet room.

First published in the year 1858, the present historical novel ‘Doctor Thorne’ is the third novel in Anthony Trollope’s series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. It is mainly concerned with the romantic problems of Mary Thorne, niece of Doctor Thomas Thorne, and Frank Gresham, the only son of the local squire, although Trollope as the omniscient narrator assures the reader at the beginning that the hero is really the doctor.

Dodsworth’ is a satirical novel by American writer Sinclair Lewis. It was first published by Harcourt Brace & Company in March 1929. Its subject, the differences between US and European intellect, manners, and morals, is one that frequently appears in the works of Henry James.

Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.

Dombey was about eight-and-forty years of age. Son about eight-and-forty minutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made man, too stern and pompous in appearance, to be prepossessing. Son was very bald, and very red, and though (of course) an undeniably fine infant, somewhat crushed and spotty in his general effect, as yet. On the brow of Dombey, Time and his brother Care had set some marks, as on a tree that was to come down in good time—remorseless twins they are for striding through their human forests, notching as they go—while the countenance of Son was crossed with a thousand little creases, which the same deceitful Time would take delight in smoothing out and wearing away with the flat part of his scythe, as a preparation of the surface for his deeper operations.

Why, my dear Martial, where have you dropped from? If you are ever sent with an embassy, I have small hopes of your success. Do not you see a triple rank of the most undaunted coquettes of Paris between her and the swarm of dancing men that buzz under the chandelier? and was it not only by the help of your eyeglass that you were able to discover her at all in the corner by that pillar.

Lord Byron’s satirical poem ‘Don Juan’ is based on the legend of Don Juan, which Byron reverses, portraying Juan not as a womaniser but as someone easily seduced by women. It is a variation on the epic form. Byron himself called it an Epic Satire. Byron completed 16 cantos, leaving an unfinished 17th canto before his death in 1824. Byron claimed he had no ideas in his mind as to what would happen in subsequent cantos as he wrote his work.

After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however slight an extent, there must always be some element of mystery, arising partly out of ignorance and partly from the compulsion of those oaths by which magic protects its precincts from the tiptoe of curiosity.

The artist hopes that beneath their whimsicalities and exaggerations there will be found an appeal to that touch of nature that makes us all kin.

A 1927 romantic novel by Warwick Deeping, ‘Doomsday’ revolves around a girl with aspirations to leave her small town as well as her relationship with a man living on a local acreage, known as the Doomsday Farm.

First published in the year 1897, the present gothic novel ‘Dracula’ by Irish author Bram Stoker introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. It tells the story of Dracula’s attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.

First published in the year 1914, the present book ‘Dracula’s Guest’ is a fictional horror short story by Bram Stoker. It is widely believed that “Dracula’s Guest” is actually the deleted first chapter from the original Dracula manuscript, which the publisher felt was superfluous to the story.

First published in the year 1896, the present book ‘Dream Days’ by Kenneth Grahame is a sequal to the author’s 1895 work ‘The Golden Age’. This volume to has reminiscences of childhood written by him.

This remarkable novel by the founder of the legendary “Life” humor magazine combines romance, humor, adventure and science fiction in the story of a mysterious inventor and his claim to have discovered diamonds on the Moon.

First published in the year 1914, the present book ‘Dubliners’ is a collection of fifteen short stories written by James Joyce. These stories form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

The present book titled ‘Dust of New York’ is a collection of short stories written by the famous writer

The essence of Hamblin’s mystical experience and philosophy was of the omnipresence, omnipotence and all-goodness of God. He believed that abounding health, sufficiency of supply, achievement, accomplishment and joy indescribable are the normal state for man., and that, to achieve this state, man needed to come into harmony with Cosmic Law.

This book is a marriage of the Ancient Occult Teachings to the latest and most advanced conception of Modern Science. Partial Contents: Things as They Are; The Universality of Life and Mind; Life and Mind Among the Atoms; The Paradox of Science; Forces of Nature; Law of Attraction; Theory of Dynamic Thought; Law of Vibrant Energy; Riddle of the Sphinx; Mystery of Mind; Finer Forces of the Mind; Thought in Action.

Examining sources and case studies, this fascinating book explores early Christianity, how it was studied, how it is studied now, and
how Judaeo-Christian values came to form the ideological bedrock of modern western culture.
Also including a comprehensive guide for students that lists major collections of literary and non-literary sources, the chief journals
and series, and important textbooks, Early Christianity is an excellent aid to the study of Christianity in history.

The present book ‘Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior’s Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans’ is a collection of some of the early works of the renowned Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. This volume is a part of the Scandinavian Classics series.

When, at a period comparatively recent in the world’s history, the discovery was made that, on the face of the as yet unmeasured ocean, there existed a western continent which rivalled in extent the world already known, it became a subject of natural enquiry whether a fact of such momentous importance could for so many thousands of years have remained a secret. Nor was the enquiry entirely without response. Amid the obscurity of the past some faint foreshadowings of the great reality appeared to be traceable. The poet with his prophecy, the sage with his mythic lore, and the unlettered seaman who, with curious eye, had peered into the mysteries of the far-stretching Atlantic, had each, as it now appeared, enunciated a problem which at length had met with its solution.

One side of the ravine was in darkness. The darkness was soft and rich, suggesting thick foliage. Along the crest of the slope tree-tops came into view—great pines and hemlocks of the ancient unviolated forest—revealed against the orange disk of a full moon just rising. The low rays slanting through the moveless tops lit strangely the upper portion of the opposite steep,—the western wall of the ravine, barren, unlike its fellow, bossed with great rocky projections, and harsh with stunted junipers. Out of the sluggish dark that lay along the ravine as in a trough, rose the brawl of a swollen, obstructed stream.