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The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete by Dante Alighieri
A long epic descriptive poem by the famous Italian scholar, critic and writer dante Aligheri, ‘The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete’ was composed in early 1300s.
The Doctor’s Dilemma by Bernard Shaw
The renowned dramatist George Bernard Shaw’s play ‘The Doctor’s Dilemma’ is a problem play about the moral dilemmas created by limited medical resources, and the conflicts between the demands of private medicine as a business and a vocation around the Europe in the early twentieth century. This play was first staged in the year 1906.
The Doctorine and Practice of Yoga by A.P. Mukherji
Includes the Practices and Exercises of Concentration, both Objective and Subjective, and Active and Passive Mentation, an Elucidation of Maya, Guru Worship, and the Worship of the Terrible, also the Mystery of Will-Force.
The Dogs and the Fleas by Frederic Scrimshaw
Henry Ward Beecher, in a sermon shortly before his death, said America was going through a period of disgrace. This was true; for there had come to pass, what the prophetic Lincoln had foretold, that, as the result of the war, monopolies had been enthroned, that had filled the land with corruption and imperilled the liberties of the people.
To-day the period of disgrace is worse than then, for the corrupt tree which was then bearing so luxuriant a crop has had several years more in which to develop its fruit-bearing capacity.
The Doings of Raffles Haw by Arthur Conan Doyle
“I’m afraid that he won’t come,” said Laura McIntyre, in a disconsolate voice.
“Why not?”
“Oh, look at the weather; it is something too awful.”
As she spoke a whirl of snow beat with a muffled patter against the cosy red-curtained window, while a long blast of wind shrieked and whistled through the branches of the great white-limbed elms which skirted the garden.
The Dolls on Dress Parade by Effa E. Preston
First published in the year 1922, Effa E. Preston’s play ‘The Dolls on Dress Parade’ is a children’s play focusing on a child’s visit to a shop to purchase doll.
The Dolphin in History by John C. Lilly and Ashley Montagu
Recently the dolphin has become the focus of much scientific interest and investigation which have led to flattering pronouncements about its remarkable intelligence, amiability, and astonishing friendliness towards man. It was in consequence of such activities that a symposium was held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library to consider the background to contemporary studies of the dolphin. The presentations of Dr. Ashley Montagu and Dr. John C. Lilly were received so favorably that it was decided to make them more widely available in the present form.
The Dore Lectures on Mental Science by Thomas Troward
A series of lectures given at the Dore Gallery, Bond Street, London in 1909. Self help subjects such as the creative power of thought, and affirmations, mixed in with some Christian teachings.
The Drama of Love and Death by Edward Carpenter
Love and Death move through this world of ours like things apart—underrunning it truly, and everywhere present, yet seeming to belong to some other mode of existence. When Death comes, breaking into the circle of our friends, words fail us, our mental machinery ceases to operate, all our little stores of wit and wisdom, our maxims, our mottoes, accumulated from daily experience, evaporate and are of no avail. These things do not seem to touch or illuminate in any effective way the strange vast Presence whose wings darken the world for us. And with Love, though in an opposite sense, it is the same. Words are of no use, all our philosophy fails—whether to account for the pain, or to fortify against the glamour, or to describe the glory of the experience.
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
“The Duchess of Malfi” was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611. It is based on a story in Painter’s “Palace of Pleasure,” translated from the Italian novelist, Bandello; and it is entirely possible that it has a foundation in fact. In any case, it portrays with a terrible vividness one side of the court life of the Italian Renaissance; and its picture of the fierce quest of pleasure, the recklessness of crime, and the worldliness of the great princes of the Church finds only too ready corroboration in the annals of the time.
The Duke in the Suburbs by Edgar Wallace
The author, who is merely an inventor of stories, may at little cost impress his readers with the scope of his general knowledge. For he may place the scene of his story in Milan at the Court of the Visconti and throw back the action half a thousand years, drawing across his stage splendid figures slimly silked or sombrely satined, and fill their mouths with such awsome oaths as “By Bacchus!” or “Sapristi!” and the like. He may also, does the fine fancy seize him, take for his villain no less a personage than Monseigneur, for hero a Florentine Count, as bright lady of the piece, a swooning flower of the Renaissance, all pink and white, with a bodice of plum velvet cut square at the breast, and showing the milk-white purity of her strong young throat.
It is indeed a more difficult matter when one is less of an inventor, than a painstaking recorder of facts.
hen our characters are conventionally attired in trousers of the latest fashion, and ransacking mythology the oath-makers can accept no god worthier of witness than High Jove.
The Duke of Chimney Butte by George W. Ogden
The present book ‘The Duke of Chimney Butte’ was written by famous author George W. Ogden. It was first published in the year 1920 and resembles the trend of wetern fiction style.
The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft
First published in the year 1929, H. P. Lovecraft’s book ‘The Dunwich Horror’ is a weird horror story. It published by the Weird Tales : The Unique Magazine.
The Duty of American Women to Their Country by Catharine Esther Beecher
This book is dedicated to the American women’s army, which have been contributing to the warfare as bravely and strongly as that of men.
“My countrywomen, you often hear it said that intelligence and virtue are indispensable to the safety of a democratic government like ours, where the people hold all the power. You hear it said, too, that our country is in great peril from the want of this intelligence and virtue. But these words make a faint impression, and it is the object of what follows to convey these truths more vividly to your minds.” -an excerpt from the book
The Dyer’s Guide by Thomas Packer
To insist on the utility of the present Manual is, assuredly, superfluous. The favourable reception of the first edition, sometime since out of print, has stimulated the author to revise the work throughout, and to render it more deserving the public approbation. The Appendix to the first edition now forms a part of the Introductory Chapter, to which it naturally belongs; to the whole have been added such improvements as the present advanced state of knowledge, and particularly chemical knowledge, has rendered absolutely necessary; and which thepractical dyer will find of considerable importance and much utility.
The following letter from the late SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, the first chemist of the age, appeared in the Preface to the first edition; it is here again reprinted as some proof of the sufficiency of that learned man’s judgment, at least concerning the chemical theory of the art of dyeing.
The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon by Thomas Hardy
“In respect of such plays of poesy and dream a practicable compromise may conceivably result, taking the shape of a monotonic delivery of speeches, with dreamy conventional gestures, something in the manner traditionally maintained by the old Christmas mummers, the curiously hypnotizing impressiveness of whose automatic style—that of persons who spoke by no will of their own—may be remembered by all who ever experienced it. Gauzes or screens to blur outlines might still further shut off the actual, as has, indeed, already been done in exceptional cases. But with this branch of the subject we are not concerned here.” -Preface by Thomas Hardy
The Early History of the Airplane by Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright
A historical book on how Wright Brothers invented aeroplanes. An intersting book by the famous Wright Brothers themselves. Wright Brothers are known as the pioneers of Aeronautical history of the world.
The Earth Trembled by Edward Payson Roe
At the beginning of the Civil War there was a fine old residence on Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, inhabited by a family almost as old as the State. Its inheritor and owner, Orville Burgoyne, was a widower. He had been much saddened in temperament since the death of the wife, and had withdrawn as far as possible from public affairs. His library and the past had secured a stronger hold upon his interest and his thoughts than anything in the present, with one exception, his idolized and only child, Mary, named for her deceased mother. Any book would be laid aside when she entered; all gloom banished from his eyes when she coaxed and caressed him.
The Earth’s Beginning by Robert S. Ball
Since these lectures were delivered in the Royal Institution of Great Britain there has been much advance in our knowledge of astronomy. The simultaneous advance in other sciences allied with astronomy has been, perhaps, even more remarkable. I am glad to avail myself of the opportunity afforded by a new issue of “The Earth’s Beginning” to draw attention to certain recent developments of science which relate in a very striking way to the subject of this volume, namely, the famous Nebular Theory of the origin of the solar system. It appears to me that these recent developments tend to reduce greatly, even if they do not altogether remove, the chief outstanding difficulty which has hitherto retarded the acceptance of the Nebular Theory.
The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (Part II) by William Morris
O Love, this morn when the sweet nightingale
Had so long finished all he had to say,
That thou hadst slept, and sleep had told his tale;
And midst a peaceful dream had stolen away
In fragrant dawning of the first of May,
Didst thou see aught? didst thou hear voices sing
Ere to the risen sun the bells ‘gan ring?
The Edinburgh Lectures On Mental Science by Troward, Thomas
The Unity of The Spirit – Subjective and Objective Mind – Further Considerations Regarding Subjective and Objective Mind – The Law of Growth – Receptivity – Reciprocal Action of The Universal and Individual Minds – Causes and Conditions – Intuition – Healing – The Will – In Touch With Subconscious Mind – The Body – The Soul – The Spirit – Entering Into The Spirit of It – Individuality – The New Thought and The New Order – The Life of The Spirit – Alpha and Omega – The Creative Power of Thought – The Great Affirmative – Christ The Fulfilling of The Law – The Story of Eden – The Worship of Ishi – The Shepherd and The Stone – Salvation Is of The Jews
The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
One of the few masterpieces to issue directly from a raging inferiority complex.
The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Famous American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs’s present fictional novel ‘The Efficiency Expert’ was first published in the year 1921. Set in the contemporary America, this novel follows the adventures of Jimmy Torrance as he attempts to make a career for himself in 1921 Chicago.
The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner
Stirner’s The Ego and its Own is striking in both style and content, attacking Feuerbach, Moses Hess and others to sound the death-knell of Left Hegelianism. The work also constitutes an enduring critique of liberalism and socialism from the perspective of an extreme eccentric individualism. Stirner has latterly been portrayed variously as a precursor of Nietzsche, a forerunner of existentialism, an individualist anarchist, and as manifestly insane. This edition includes an Introduction placing Stirner in his historical context.
The Elements of Agriculture by George E. Waring
This book is presented to you, not as a work of science, nor as a dry, chemical treatise, but as a plain statement of the more simple operations by which nature produces many results, so common to our observation, that we are thoughtless of their origin. On these results depend the existence of man and the lower animals. No man should be ignorant of their production.
The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin
The present book ‘The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners’ is a 1857 art manual by famous English artist and writer John Ruskin to instruct and guide young and aspiring artists on the techniques of drawing.
The Elements of Style by William Strunk
The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions, originally composed by William Strunk Jr. in 1918. It comprises elementary rules of usage, elementary principles of composition, a few matters of form, a list of words and expressions commonly misused, and a list of words often misspelled.
The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Frederick Treves
When I first became aware of this phenomenon the exhibition was closed, but a well-informed boy sought the proprietor in a public house and I was granted a private view on payment of a shilling.
The Eleven Comedies by Aristophanes
Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it.
The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
“Many things in this book will greatly shock, and even give heartfelt pain to, numerous persons whom I greatly respect. I have a large share of the love of approbation, and naturally desire the good opinion of those with whom I have been associated in a long life. There is no pleasure in the fact that I have to stand quite alone in the eyes of nearly all Christendom. There is no satisfaction in being deemed a disturber of the peace of the great majority of those “professing and calling themselves Christians.” But, at the same time, I must not be indifferent in matters where I believe truth is concerned.” -Preface
The Elves of Mount Fern by Katherine Creighton
The Elves are the dearest and most mischievous little people in all the wide world.
They live in Elfland, and Elfland can be found in every corner of the globe. They take up their abode on wooded hillsides, beside murmuring streams, or in deep, leafy forests. In the dead of night, when all the world is still, they steal forth from their dwellings and start on their merry midnight rounds. They dance in the moonlight on soft dewy lawns under wide-spreading trees. They visit their neighbors and friends among elves, and their neighbors and friends among men.
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim
A 1922 women’s adventure and travel novel by British-American novelist Elizabeth von Arnim. It is said to be the author’s lightest and most refreshing novel. The novel follows four dissimilar women in 1920s England who leave their rainy, grey environments to go on holiday in Italy. Mrs Arbuthnot and Mrs Wilkins, who belong to the same ladies’ club but have never spoken, become acquainted after reading a newspaper advertisement for a small medieval castle on the Mediterranean to be let furnished for April. They find some common ground in that both are struggling to make the best of unhappy marriages. The four women come together at the castle and find rejuvenation in the tranquil beauty of their surroundings, rediscovering hope and love.
The Enchiridion by Epictetus
The Enchiridion’ is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus.
The English at the North Pole by Jules Verne
“Yes,” said the quartermaster, “and it is furnished with a steel cutter as sharp as a razor and capable of cutting a three-decker in two if the Forward were thrown across her at top speed.”
The English Lakes by W. T. Palmer
The present book, it must be understood, treats the English Lakes rather apart from various other elements comprised in what is known as the Lake District. There is so much to say of the waters and their immediate surroundings that no space has remained to describe mountain, pass, and tarn in the manner their beauties merit. Other limits to the book are due to the writer’s promiscuity of taste. I am interested in most things—antiquities, fauna, flora, sports, geology, entomology, and the like; but in not one of these subjects have I that erudite knowledge which might render my work of profit. This book is written to interest those who love out-of-doors without claiming any particular study there. Of the paintings—I can only commend them to notice. In my humblest manner I assert that only an artist who feels the beauty of his environment thoroughly could produce work so stamped with the innate character of our Lakeland.
The Enormous Room by Horace Leonard Gold
First published in the year 1953, the present book ‘The Enormous Room’ is co-written by Horace Leonard Gold and Robert Wilson Krepps. This science fiction story was first serialized in a magazine named the Amazing stories.
The Escapist by Manoj Das
“Chance is the pseudonym of God which He uses when He does not wish to put down His signature” could probably be described as the theme of this absorbing novel. But “everything about The Escapist has the irony of a magician who hides his true face behind a mask and drowns everything in a peal of laughter”, observed Dr. H.P. Shukla in his deep study of this work in the ‘Visva Bharati Quarterly’. By the time one completes reading the novel, one would have felt the title revealing a sense quite different from its ordinary meaning—something akin to the escapism of Francis Thompson in The Hound of Heaven. This not-too-long novel stirs a reader’s sensibility at various planes—from the one that shows the play of unexpected forces in our normal life to the plane where we reflect on the very purpose of life. A saga of soul’s journey through life’s darkness into the infinity of the blue… Why do our dreams get shattered? Why are we confronted by the unexpected and the inscrutable? The turbulence of our passion—the pangs of their frustration—do they play and role in our life’s journey – and journey towards what? How distant is that goal?The Escapist is not just an absorbing novel—but a voyage and an exploration.
The Esperanto Teacher: A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians by Helen Fryer
This little book has been prepared in the hope of helping those who, having forgotten the lessons in grammar which they received at school, find some difficulty in learning Esperanto from the existing textbooks. It is hoped it will be found useful not only for solitary students, but also for class work.
—from this book
The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral by Francis Bacon
First published in the year 1597, renowned philosopher, social thinker and writer Francis Bacon’s present book ‘The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral’ is a compandium of his various essays that are written in wide range of styles, from the plain and unadorned to the epigrammatic.
The Essence of Buddhism by E. Haldeman-Julius
The present compilation is aimed at turning Buddhism to account as a moral force by bringing together a selection of its beautiful sentiments, and lofty maxims, and particularly including some of those which inculcate mercy to the lower animals.
The Eternal Geets of Bhagavad Gita by Akhilesh Gumashta
“One should not fail to thoroughly understand the Bhagavad Gita as ancient Science of worldly life.”—These were the words of Lokmanya Tilak.
Truly, this is a true scripture of the human race as a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every civilisation.
As the days pass on, it’s becoming more relevant for ages to come.
Adi Shankaracharya brought it out from Epic Mahabharat as a clear knowledge to fulfil all the goals of human existence.
From ancient to the modern brains it became source of inspiration. For Albert Einstein Bhagavad Gita was the main source of inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of his theories.
Purpose of bringing this book is not just to increase the readability and quotability of Bhagavad Gita through verses and haikus but also to increase spirituality among masses.
With the hope that this book will be taken by the readers as a creation and not just a book, and will be a reference text to wide range of readers from students to philosophers, from spiritualists to scientists and writers, it is offered to the mankind.
The Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
Ethica. English’ is a philosophical treatise written by Benedictus de Spinoza. It was first published in 1677. The book is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of Euclid in philosophy. Spinoza puts forward a small number of definitions and axioms from which he attempts to derive hundreds of propositions and corollaries.
The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place; and I tried to trace such a journey in a story I once wrote. It is, however, a relief to turn from that topic to another story that I never wrote.
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln by Francis F. Browne
This book brings Lincoln the man, not Lincoln the tradition, very near to us. The great events of Lincoln’s life, and impressions of his character, are given in the actual words of those who knew him – his friends, his neighbors and daily associates – rather than condensed and remolded into other forms.
The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park
This ever offers a standing invitation and an enduring fascination for those who will but raise their eyes from the fertile and arable soil in which they concentrate their most arduous labors. Too close confinement in this field may result in greater commercial yield, but the fragrance of the clover detracts not at all from the value of the hay, nor do borderland studies result otherwise than in enlargement of the boundaries of one’s storm center of work.
The Evolution of Culture, and Other Essays by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
It was about the middle of last century that an officer in Her Majesty’s Army began to apply the lessons which he had learnt in the course of some of his professional experimental work to studies pursued by him as a hobby in a far wider field of science. The story of the famous ethnographical collection of Colonel Lane Fox is well known, and I need but briefly refer to it. During his investigations, conducted with a view to ascertaining the best methods whereby the service firearms might be improved, at a time when the old Tower musket was being finally discarded, he was forcibly struck by the extremely gradual changes whereby improvements were effected. From this book
The Evolution of Modern Medicine by William Osler
On this foundation Yale College was requested and directed to establish an annual course of lectures designed to illustrate the presence and providence, the wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the natural and moral world. These were to be designated as the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures. It was the belief of the testator that any orderly presentation of the facts of nature or history contributed to the end of this foundation more effectively than any attempt to emphasize the elements of doctrine or of creed; and he therefore provided that lectures on dogmatic or polemical theology should be excluded from the scope of this foundation, and that the subjects should be selected rather from the domains of natural science and history, giving special prominence to astronomy, chemistry, geology and anatomy.
The Evolution of Photography by John Werge
The present book titled ‘The Evolution of Photography’ was written by famous historian and photographer John Werge. It was first published in the year 1890. This book would interest the photography enthusiasts and those who are interested in reading the history and evolution of the technology of capturing any thing in a frame.
The Exhibition Drama by George M. Baker
In the preparation of “The Exhibition Drama,” the author has endeavored to present as great a variety as in the previous volumes of this series, and to comply, as far as possible, with the requests of numerous correspondents. Thus “Enlisted for the War” was written in response to a demand for something, based on the late civil war, which should meet the requirements of various Posts of the G. A. R. The musical allegories, “The Visions of Freedom,” and “The Tournament of Idylcourt,” were prepared for the graduating-class in a Boston grammar-school, and are of the same general character as those previously issued. The Christmas entertainment, and the dramatization of Dickens’s “Christmas Carol,” have both been successfully performed at sabbath-school entertainments. These, as well as the allegories, are plentifully supplied with tableaux, easily represented, and are adapted to the wants of many occasional exhibitions.
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard’ is one of the stories in Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous Gerard series. It was published in the year 1896.