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The Art of Wise Investing by John F. Hume
The art of wise investing; a series of short articles on investment values, pointing out the essential characteristics of safe investment securities, with a review of the financial pitfalls into which superficial examination inevitably leads.
While the popular impression is probably the reverse, yet it is an undeniable fact that a far vaster sum of money is annually lost in this country through unwise investment, than through pure speculation.
The Art of Writing & Speaking English by Sherwin Cody
The classic manual on writing and speaking – learn how to communicate clearly and effectively and discover how you may be holding yourself back.
The Articles of Faith A Series of Lectures on the Principal Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by James E. Talmage
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The Arya Samaj by Lala Lajpat Rai
The Arya Samaj’ is a book by Lala Lajpat Rai, aimed to state the position of Arya Samaj in the words of its leaders, who are the best exponents of its doctrine and its views.
‘The Arya Samaj is undoubtedly a potent spiritual ferment in Punjab, combining what may be called a Protestant reformation of the secular abuses and legendary accretions of orthodox Hinduism with a Puritan simplification of life and a Roundhead insistence on the development of Indian intellectual life and thought. Of this movement and in this social service, Mr. Lajpat Rai has been long a leader. He adds a new service to us all by bringing its history, its aims and its achievement to the notice of the ever-growing English-reading public, not only in the United Kingdom and America, but also in India and Japan.’
(from Introduction of the book)
The Aspern Papers by Henry James
I had taken Mrs. Prest into my confidence; in truth without her I should have made but little advance, for the fruitful idea in the whole business dropped from her friendly lips. It was she who invented the short cut, who severed the Gordian knot. It is not supposed to be the nature of women to rise as a general thing to the largest and most liberal view—I mean of a practical scheme; but it has struck me that they sometimes throw off a bold conception—such as a man would not have risen to—with singular serenity. “Simply ask them to take you in on the footing of a lodger”—I don’t think that unaided I should have risen to that. I was beating about the bush, trying to be ingenious, wondering by what combination of arts I might become an acquaintance, when she offered this happy suggestion that the way to become an acquaintance was first to become an inmate. Her actual knowledge of the Misses Bordereau was scarcely larger than mine, and indeed I had brought with me from England some definite facts which were new to her.
The Atheist’s Mass by Honore de Balzac
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle
The Athenian Constitution’ by Aristotle was first found preserved on two leaves off papyrus codex at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt in 1879. It describes the political system of ancient Athens.
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District
The present book is originally a document of detailed expert investigation of the atomic bombing that took place at Hiroshima, Japan, during the final stage of the World War II by the United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District.
The Atonement and the Modern Mind by James Denney
The three chapters which follow have already appeared in The Expositor, and may be regarded as a supplement to the writer’s work on The Death of Christ: its place and interpretation in the New Testament. It was no part of his intention in that study to ask or to answer all the questions raised by New Testament teaching on the subject; but, partly from reviews of The Death of Christ, and still more from a considerable private correspondence to which the book gave rise, he became convinced that something further should be attempted to commend the truth to the mind and conscience of the time.
The Author’s Craft by Arnold Bennett
A collection of four literary essays written by the famous writer Arnold Bennett. These essays accounts what he has learned and experience as a writer – emerging, progressing and established with fame.
The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian by Paul Radin
A truly fascinating ethno-biography of an Indian man from the Winnebago tribe. Split into two parts and heavily footnoted. Part One deals with the life of the man as he is growing up in his tribe. He recalls the trouble he got into, his experiences with peyote, his conversion, his time in prison and much more. Part Two contain the teachings of his father and include advice on things like medicine, fasting, marriage and relatives. Originally published in 1920, this is an extraordinarily interesting and honest read.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
First published in the year 1912, ‘The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man’ by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the “Ex-Colored Man”, living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Autobiography of an Indian Princess by Sunity Devee
I was born in 1864 at the old house known as “Sen’s House” which my great-grandfather built at Coolootola, a part of Calcutta where many of our family lived. My birth was always remembered in connection with a storm which occurred when I was six days old, a most important time to a Hindu baby, for then the Creator is supposed to visit the home, and write upon its forehead the little one’s fate. Perhaps people will think the stormy weather in the beginning signified a stormy future for me.
No girl could have been more fortunate in her parents than I. My father, the great Keshub Chunder Sen, is considered one of the most remarkable men India has ever produced, and my dear mother belonged to the best type of Hindu woman. Gentle, loving, and self-denying, her whole life was beautiful in its goodness and its simplicity.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Charles W. Elist Lld
This Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is an unfinished biographical record in his own words ranging from 1771 to year 1790.
He was blessed with variety of talents and great stamina to achieve desired results Franklin was an author, scientist, printer, inventor and a superb statesman. He was part of creating document to achieve freedom.
Franklin’s account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. There are actual breaks in the narrative between the first three parts, but Part Three’s narrative continues into Part Four without an authorial break.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin by Ed. Francis Darwin
One little event during this year has fixed itself very firmly in my mind, and I hope that it has done so from my conscience having been afterwards sorely troubled by it; it is curious as showing that apparently I was interested at this early age in the variability of plants!
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With respect to science, I continued collecting minerals with much zeal. I must have observed insects with some little care. I almost made up my mind to begin collecting all the insects which I could find dead, for on consulting my sister I concluded that it was not right to kill insects for the sake of making a collection.
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Life there was perfectly free; the country was very pleasant for walking or riding; and in the evening there was much very agreeable conversation, not so personal as it generally is in large family parties, together with music. Nothing has left a more vivid picture on my mind than these evenings at Maer.
— from this book
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Autobiography of Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors.
This has been edited by his son Francis Darwin.
The Autobiography of the Taj by Vandita Sharma
God is the Creator of everything around us. He also created humans who have embellished this world with monuments. Some of these are known as ‘THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD.’
The Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography is a 1913 autobiography written by former President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.
The Awakening by Leo Tolstoy
The Awakening, first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the popular weekly magazine Niva in an effort to raise funds for the resettlement of the Dukhobors. The story is about a nobleman named Dmitri Ivanovich Nekhlyudov, who seeks redemption for a sin committed years earlier. His brief affair with a maid had resulted in her being fired and ending up in prostitution. The book treats his attempts to help her out of her current misery, but also focuses on his personal mental and moral struggle. Framed for murder, the maid, Maslova, is convicted by mistake and sent to Siberia. Nekhlyudov goes to visit her in prison, meets other prisoners, hears their stories, and slowly comes to realize that all around his charmed and golden aristocratic world, yet invisible to it, is a much larger world of oppression, misery and barbarism. Story after story he hears and even sees people chained without cause, beaten without cause, immured in dungeons for life without cause, and a twelve-year-old boy sleeping in a lake of human dung from an overflowing latrine because there is no other place on the prison floor, but clinging in a vain search for love to the leg of the man next to him, until the book achieves the bizarre intensity of a horrific fever dream.
The Awakening of Faith by Ashvagosha
The Soul or Mind of the True Model is the great essence of the invisible and the visible worlds. As to the nature of this One Soul, it is the same in all forms. To think it is different in different forms is only a false notion of the world. Once we penetrate beyond forms, it is discovered that all the different forms of the universe are not real differences of soul at an, but different manifestations of one real power, hence it has always been impossible to speak adequately, to name correctly, or to think correctly of this One Soul, the real essence of things, which is unchangeable and indestructible. We therefore name it the TRUE ESSENCE OR THE TRUE LIKENESS OR THE TRUE REALITY OR MODEL.
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin
A novel that scandalized America because of its sexual frankness, and because of the unconventional behavior of its female protagonist, ‘The Awakening’ has enjoyed vast popularity in the 20th century. It was first published in the year 1899.
The Babees’ Book by Frederick James Furnivall
These two volumes, with their introductions and illustrative matter, to my mind present the most vivid picture of home life in medieval England that we have. Aside from their general human interest, they are valuable to the student of social history, and almost essential to an understanding of the literature of their time. The whole fabric of the romances was based upon the intricate system of “courtesy” as here set forth, and John Russell furnishes an interesting comment xiion Chaucer and his school, as do Rhodes and Seager and Weste on the writers of the sixteenth century. Finally, among these treatises, there is many a plum by the way for the seeker of proverbs, curious lore, superstitions, literary oddities. And as comparatively few people have time or inclination to worry through antiquated English, Dr. Furnivall has long wished that the substance of his collections might be presented in modern form. Therefore this little volume has been undertaken.
The Babes in the Basket by Sarah S. Baker
The evening air stole gently into a quiet room in a southern island, more than sixty years ago.
There were no casements in the wide windows; the heavy shutters were thrown back, and the moonlight poured, in long, unbroken streams, across the polished, un-carpeted floor.
The Backwash of War by Ellen N. La Motte
First published in the year 1916, the present book ‘The Backwash of War’ was written by the famous writer Ellen N. La Motte. This book is a collection of the author’s memoirs which sheds light on the events that took place during the World War 1.
The Ball and the Cross by G. K. Chesterton
First published in the year 1909, the present novel ‘The Ball and the Cross’ by famous fiction writer G. K. Chesterton involves debates about rationalism and religion between a Professor Lucifer and a monk named Michael. Its title refers to a more worldly and rationalist worldview, represented by a ball or sphere, and the cross representing Christianity.
The Ball at Sceaux by Honoré de Balzac
Emilie de Fontaine is a spoiled and pround brat. She rejects all suitors her father proposes. She will only marry a peer of France – or not at all! At a ball, she meets the handsome Maximilian. They fall in love. But one day, Emily discovers that Maximilian has a secret.
The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance
The present novel ‘The Bandbox’ was written by famous American novelist, short story writer and scholar Louis Joseph Vance. It was first published in the year 1912.
The Barbarism of Berlin by G K Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
The Baron’s Gloves; or, Amy’s Romance by Louisa May Alcott
Two rather young women, Amy and Helen, traveling with an older uncle, are doing the “tour” of Europe, and are supposedly soaking up education but secretly yearning for adventures and romance.
The Basis of Social Relations: A Study in Ethnic Psychology by Daniel G. Brinton
It is strange that not in any language has there been published a systematic treatise on Ethnic Psychology; strange, because the theme is in nowise a new one but has been the subject of many papers and discussions for a generation; indeed, had a journal dedicated to its service for a score of years; strange, also, because its students claim that it is the key to ethnology, the sure interpreter of history, and the only solid basis for constructive sociology.
Why this apparent failure to establish for itself a position in the temple of the Science of Man? This inquiry must be answered on the threshold of a treatise which undertakes to vindicate for this study an independent position and a permanent value.
The Battle and the Breeze by R.M. Ballantyne
When Bill was a baby—a round-faced, large-eyed, fat-legged baby, as unlike to the bronzed, whiskered, strapping seaman who went by the name of “Fighting Bill” as a jackdaw is to a marlinespike—when Bill was a baby, his father used to say he was just cut out for a sailor; and he was right, for the urchin was overflowing with vigour and muscular energy. He was utterly reckless, and very earnest—we might almost say desperately earnest. Whatever he undertook to do he did “with a will.” He spoke with a will, listened with a will, laughed, yelled, ate, slept, wrought, and fought with a will. In short, he was a splendid little fellow, and therefore, as his father wisely said, was just cut out for a sailor.
The Battle of Life: A Love Story by Charles Dickens
Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for the dew, felt its enamelled cup fill high with blood that day, and shrinking dropped.
The Battle of Principles by Newell Dwight Hillis
First published in 1912, the present book titled ‘The Battle of Principles’ by Newell Dwight Hillis presents a study of heroism and eloquence of the anti-lavery conflict in north and south America.
The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift
The present book ‘The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces’ is a collection of short stories written by the noted writer Jonathan Swift. The first story in this collection – The Battle of the Books, is a humorous story, a satire portraying a literal battle between books in the St. James library.
The Battle of The Press by Theophila Carlile Campbell
“In presenting to the present generation of England and America the comprehensive though necessarily condensed history of the life and work of the great pioneer in the cause of mental freedom, I am actuated by two principal motives, the foremost of which is the desirable duty of presenting to the people of to-day a faithful account of the work done by Carlile and the enormous sacrifices he made, as well as the terrible imprisonments he endured in the accomplishment of the task he set himself to do, namely, to establish for his countrymen a really Free Press, and the right of free oral discussion, as, up to his time, neither right had ever been accorded to any of the peoples of Europe by either Church or State.” -Preface
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete by Gilbert Parker
First published in the year 1898, the present longish novel ‘The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Complete’ was written by Canadian novelist and British politician Gilbert Parker. The book is set in the Channel Islands, primarily during the period 1781-95, and opens with attempted invasion of Jersey by France in the Battle of Jersey.
The Battle of Wavre and Grouchy’s Retreat by William Hyde Kelly
So much has been written on the Waterloo Campaign that, even in the smallest details, nothing new can be revealed; but the dazzling magnitude of the great battle itself has obscured a part of the campaign which is seldom studied—the battle against Thielemann, and Grouchy’s skilful retreat from Wavre.
The Bear by Anton Chekhov
The Bear: A Joke in One Act, or The Boor, is a one-act comedic play written by Russian author Anton Chekhov.
The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention—spoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. He had been conveyed by friends an hour or two before to the house at which she was staying; the party of visitors at the other house, of whom he was one, and thanks to whom it was his theory, as always, that he was lost in the crowd, had been invited over to luncheon. There had been after luncheon much dispersal, all in the interest of the original motive, a view of Weatherend itself and the fine things, intrinsic features, pictures, heirlooms, treasures of all the arts, that made the place almost famous; and the great rooms were so numerous that guests could wander at their will, hang back from the principal group and in cases where they took such matters with the last seriousness give themselves up to mysterious appreciations and measurements.
The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
“The entire affair is shrouded in mystery,” said D’Arnot. “I have it on the best of authority that neither the police nor the special agents of the general staff have the faintest conception of how it was accomplished. All they know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas Rokoff has escaped.”
The Beautiful and Damned by F Scott Fitzgerald
One of the most celebrated English novelist F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel ‘The Beautiful and Damned’ was first published in the year 1922. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after “the Great War” and in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald’s characters in this novel are complex, especially with respect to marriage and intimacy. The work is generally considered to have drawn upon and be based on Fitzgerald’s relationship and marriage with his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.
The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay
Through all the Employments of Life
Each Neighbour abuses his Brother;
Whore and Rogue they call Husband and Wife:
All Professions be-rogue one another:
The Priest calls the Lawyer a Cheat,
The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine:
And the Statesman, because he’s so great,
Thinks his Trade as honest as mine.
The Behavior of the Honey Bee in Pollen Collection by Dana Brackenridge Casteel
While working upon the problem of wax-scale manipulation during the summer of 1911 the writer became convinced that the so-called wax shears or pinchers of the worker honey bee have nothing whatever to do with the extraction of the wax scales from their pockets, but rather that they are organs used in loading the pollen from the pollen combs of the hind legs into the corbiculæ or pollen baskets (Cast eel, 1912). Further observations made at that time disclosed the exact method by which the hind legs are instrumental in the pollen-loading process and also the way in which the middle legs aid the hind legs in patting down the pollen masses. During the summer of 1912 additional information was secured, more particularly that relating to the manner in which pollen is collected upon the body and legs of the bee, how it is transferred to the hind legs, how it is moistened, and finally the method by which it is stored in the hive for future use.
The Beliefs of Arya Samaj by Mahendra Arya
The prime object of Arya Samaj is to do good to the whole world, i.e. to achieve physical, spiritual and social prosperity for all.
—Swami Dayanand Sarswati
What is Arya Samaj?
May be a different kind of cult! They don’t
believe in God! I heard—they worship only fire! They talk negative about others! They are not Hindus! So on! And so forth!
So many misconceptions about Arya Samaj!
This book is written to address all the queries pertaining to beliefs of Arya Samaj. The book gives point to point information about principles and practices of Arya Samaj.
This book will be a handbook for all those
readers who want to have a feel of Arya Samaj.
It has all the answers—in short bullet points—
as people want them in today’s life!
The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
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The Best American Humorous Short Stories by H. C. Bunner et al.
The Nice People, by Henry Cuyler Bunner, is republished from his volume, Short Sixes, by permission of its publishers, Charles Scribner’s Sons. The Buller-Podington Compact, by Frank Richard Stockton, is from his volume, Afield and Afloat, and is republished by permission of Charles Scribner’s Sons. Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff, by Bret Harte, is from the collection of his stories entitled Openings in the Old Trail, and is republished by permission of the Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of Bret Harte’s complete works.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922 by Stacy Aumonier et al.
When Edward J. O’Brien asked me to cooperate with him in choosing each year’s best English short stories, to be published as a companion volume to his annual selection of the best American short stories, I had not realized that at the end of my arduous task, which has involved the reading of many hundreds of stories in the English magazines of an entire year, I should find myself asking the simple question: What is a short story?
The Best Ghost Stories by Arthur B. Reeve and Joseph Lewis French
The present book ‘The Best Ghost Stories’ consists of ghost stories written and compiled by famous writer Arthur B. Reeve and Joseph Lewis French. This anthology was first published in the year 1919.
The Best of Gulliver’s Travels by Swift, Jonathan
Jonathan Swift’s satirical novel was first published in 1726, yet it is still valid today. Gulliver’s Travels describes the four fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a kindly ship’s surgeon. Swift portrays him as an observer, a reporter, and a victim of circumstance. His travels take him to Lilliput where he is a giant observing tiny people. In Brobdingnag, the tables are reversed and he is the tiny person in a land of giants where he is exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. The flying island of Laputa is the scene of his next voyage. The people plan and plot as their country lies in ruins. It is a world of illusion and distorted values. The fourth and final voyage takes him to the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses who rule the land.
The Best Psychic Stories by Joseph Lewis French
First published in the year 1920, the present book ‘The Best Psychic Stories’ was written by Joseph Lewis French. This book is a collection of fictional psychological short stories.
The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Various
I should like to take the text for my remarks this year on the American Short Story from that notable volume of criticism, “Our America” by Waldo Frank. For the past year, it has been a source of much questioning to me to determine why American fiction, as well as the other arts, fails so conspicuously in presenting a national soul, why it fails to measure sincerely the heights and depths of our aspirations and failures as a nation, and why it lacks the vital élan which is so characteristic of other literatures. We know, of course, that we are present at the birth of a new national consciousness in our people, but why is it that this national consciousness seems so tangled in evasion of reality and in deep inhibitions that stultify it? Mr. Frank suggests for the first time the root of the cancer, and like a skilful surgeon points out how it may be healed. His book is the first courageous diagnosis of our weakness, and I think that the attentive and honest reader will not feel that he is unduly harsh or spiritually alienated from us. Briefly put, he finds that our failure lies in not distinguishing between idealism in itself and idealization of ourselves. We regard a man who challenges our self righteousness and self admiration as an enemy of the people. What we call our idealism is rooted in materialism and the goal we set ourselves virtuously is a goal of material comfort for ourselves, and, that once attained, perhaps also for others.