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The Theory of Stock Exchange Speculation by Arthur Crump
Some years ago I came across a book, called “Crump’s Theory of Stock Speculation,” which had gone through several editions in England; and the practical wisdom expressed therein impressed me so forcibly that ever since then I formed the project of publishing an American edition.
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan. In such communities the distinction between classes is very rigorously observed; and the feature of most striking economic significance in these class differences is the distinction maintained between the employments proper to the several classes. The upper classes are by custom exempt or excluded from industrial occupations, and are reserved for certain employments to which a degree of honour attaches. Chief among the honourable employments in any feudal community is warfare; and priestly service is commonly second to warfare. If the barbarian community is not notably warlike, the priestly office may take the precedence, with that of the warrior second. But the rule holds with but slight exceptions that, whether warriors or priests, the upper classes are exempt from industrial employments, and this exemption is the economic expression of their superior rank. Brahmin India affords a fair illustration of the industrial exemption of both these classes. In the communities belonging to the higher barbarian culture there is a considerable differentiation of sub-classes within what may be comprehensively called the leisure class; and there is a corresponding differentiation of employments between these sub-classes. The leisure class as a whole comprises the noble and the priestly classes, together with much of their retinue. The occupations of the class are correspondingly diversified; but they have the common economic characteristic of being non-industrial. These non-industrial upper-class occupations may be roughly comprised under government, warfare, religious observances, and sports.
The Third Circle by Frank Norris
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts we have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. We believe this work is culturally important. We appreciate your understanding and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps’ is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It was first published as a serial in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1915. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.
The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. by Ed. Edward Stanley Poole
“The present edition is an exact reproduction of that edited by my father, with my great-uncle’s final corrections, and published by Mr. John Murray in 1859. Several reprints of that edition have testified to the continued popularity of the work, and the necessity for the present issue shows that an acquaintance of nearly half a century has not yet wearied the public of the standard translation of the Thousand and One Nights. The secret of Mr. Lane’s success is to be found partly in the instinctive sympathy for the spirit of the East, which enabled him faithfully to reproduce the characteristic tone of the original, and partly in the rich store of illustrations of oriental life and thought contained in his Notes.” -Introduction
The Three Bears by Anonymous
There were once three bears, who lived in a wood,
Their porridge was thick, and their chairs and beds good.
The biggest bear, Bruin, was surly and rough;
His wife, Mrs. Bruin, was called Mammy Muff.
Their son, Tiny-cub, was like Dame Goose’s lad;
He was not very good, nor yet very bad.
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers’ is primarily a historical and adventure novel. However, Alexandre Dumas also frequently works into the plot various injustices, abuses and absurdities of the old regime, giving the novel an additional political aspect at a time when the debate in France between republicans and monarchists was still fierce. The story was first serialised from March to July 1844, during the July Monarchy, four years before the French Revolution of 1848 violently established the Second Republic.
The Three Stages of Clarinda Thorbald by William T. Hamilton
In the soft light of an afternoon sun, Clarinda sat in an old chair and read a thesis upon love, and she found set forth in this thesis that without love the world would not go around. Further, without love life would be but dross and hideous calamity. She also found therein that men have died from love, and women have languished in torments when it was unrequited.
Even though she was filled with apprehension as she read, she did not wish to eschew love, but was glad she was suffering from its effects.
She imagined that her own particular love was different from the love anybody had ever been consumed with, and she was glad in her heart she was suffering from its effects. She perceived it affected the glint of her hair, and she even thought it affected the beauty of her smile. She knew it affected her eyes, and gave an added color to her cheeks.
The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. Wells is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. The term “time machine”, coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle.
The Tinguian: Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe by Cole
It seems desirable, at the outset, to set forth certain general conclusions regarding the Tinguian and their neighbors. Probably no pagan tribe of the Philippines has received more frequent notice in literature, or has been the subject of more theories regarding its origin, despite the fact that information concerning it has been exceedingly scanty, and careful observations on the language and physical types have been totally lacking.
The Tiny Picture Book by Anonymous
APPLES so round, and bright, and red—
O, how I love to see;
They look so tempting as they hang
Upon the green old tree.
A naughty boy once tried to steal
From off his neighbor’s bough;
But sad to hear, adown he fell,
And is a cripple now.
The Tiny Story Book by Anonymous
I have been to see my little cousin Alice. She is just three years old, and I love her dearly. She has many things to play with. She has a ball, a rattle, and a horse; and she had a nice wax doll given her last Christmas, but as she got the paint off its face by kissing, it is laid by till she is bigger. We played she was my baby, and I dressed her up and took her to walk; after that we played have tea, and then I rocked her to sleep, and she looked so nice I could not help kissing her. She is coming to see me next week.
The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
“When Frank Algernon Cowperwood emerged from the Eastern District Penitentiary in Philadelphia he realized that the old life he had lived in that city since boyhood was ended. His youth was gone, and with it had been lost the great business prospects of his earlier manhood. He must begin again.” -an excerpt
The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit. He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by intellect or talent; he himself had talked with great success, even with brilliance … and, for all that, never yet had the taedium vitae of which the Romans talked of old, the ‘disgust for life,’ taken hold of him with such irresistible, such suffocating force. Had he been a little younger, he would have cried with misery, weariness, and exasperation: a biting, burning bitterness, like the bitter of wormwood, filled his whole soul. A sort of clinging repugnance, a weight of loathing closed in upon him on all sides like a dark night of autumn; and he did not know how to get free from this darkness, this bitterness. Sleep it was useless to reckon upon; he knew he should not sleep.
The Tower Menagerie by Edward Turner Bennett
Edward Turner Bennett’s ‘The Tower Menagerie’ is a book comprising the natural history of the animals contained in that establishment with anecdotes of their characters and history. This book has illustrated portraits of each animal, taken from life, by William Harvey.
The Toys of Peace and Other Papers by Saki
The present book ‘The Toys of Peace and Other Papers’ consists various stories and artcles written by the famous English author HH Munro who is best known by his pen name Saki. It was first published in the year 1919.
The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre by the King’s Men. Its first appearance in print was in the Folio of 1623.
The Tragedie of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599.
The Tragedie of Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a play by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius’s brother and Prince Hamlet’s father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king’s widow and Prince Hamlet’s mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage and explores themes of treachery, revenge, and moral corruption. William Shakespeare (circa 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.” His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.
The Tragedy of Othello, Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare
Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603. It is based on the story Un Capitano Moro by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565.
The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
First published in the year 1894, noted American writer Mark Twain’s novel ‘The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson’ is set in the fictional Missouri frontier town of Dawson’s Landing on the banks of the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Chor. Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus’ is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories about the title character Faust. It was first performed sometime between 1588 and Marlowe’s death in 1593. The powerful effect of early productions of the play is indicated by the legends that quickly accrued around them—that actual devils once appeared on the stage during a performance, “to the great amazement of both the actors and spectators”, a sight that was said to have driven some spectators mad.
The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis
The present book ‘The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life’ is a fictional novel which follows the life of Carl Ericson as he grows up and matures. This novel was written by American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright Sinclair Lewis. It was first published in the year 1915.
The Trained Memory by Warren Hilton
The present book titled ‘The Trained Memory’ was written by a renowned psychologist and the founder of the Society of Applied Psychology – Warren Hilton. It was first published in the year 1914.
The Tree of Wisdom by Nargarjuna
The She-rab Dong-bu is an ethical treatise written by Nargarjuna. Although he is celebrated as one of the most subtle thinkers that Buddhism, and indeed the world, has ever produced, this work is fairly simple and intended for a broad audience. Particularly striking is the nearly rabid misogyny, a feature fully in keeping with the time and place of composition, but one that we might wish not to see in the writing of the grand formulator of the Madhyamika School of philosophy.
The Tree Where Man Was Born by Peter Matthiessen and Jane Goodall
For encouraging the making of this book I am particularly grateful to Dr. John S. Owen, director of the Tanzania National Park, whose vision and dedication in a crucial time helped to save African wildlife for the future.
I thank Martha Gellhorn and Truman Capote for recommending me so generously to Dr. Owen, and also William Shawn of The New Yorker magazine for the unfailing support that has made my travels possible for years.
The Trees of Pride by G K Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K., he knew he had done nothing wrong but, one morning, he was arrested. Every day at eight in the morning he was brought his breakfast by Mrs. Grubach’s cook – Mrs. Grubach was his landlady – but today she didn’t come. That had never happened before. K. waited a little while, looked from his pillow at the old woman who lived opposite and who was watching him with an inquisitiveness quite unusual for her, and finally, both hungry and disconcerted, rang the bell. There was immediately a knock at the door and a man entered. He had never seen the man in this house before. He was slim but firmly built, his clothes were black and close-fitting, with many folds and pockets, buckles and buttons and a belt, all of which gave the impression of being very practical but without making it very clear what they were actually for. “Who are you?” asked K., sitting half upright in his bed.
The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
Of course there are two sides to the question. Let us look at the other. We often hear “shop-girls” spoken of. No such persons exist. There are girls who work in shops. They make their living that way. But why turn their occupation into an adjective? Let us be fair. We do not refer to the girls who live on Fifth Avenue as “marriage-girls.”
The Triple Alliance, Its Trials and Triumphs by Harold Avery
“What’s your name?”
“Diggory Trevanock.”
The whole class exploded.
“Now, then,” said Mr. Blake, looking up from his mark-book with a broad grin on his own face—”now, then, there’s nothing to laugh at.—Look here,” he added, turning to the new boy, “how d’you spell it?”
Instead of being at all annoyed or disconcerted at the mirth of his class-mates, the youngster seemed rather to enjoy the joke, and immediately rattled out a semi-humorous reply to the master’s question,—
“D I G, dig; G O R Y, gory—Diggory: T R E, tre; VAN, van; O C K, ock—Trevanock.” Then turning round, he smiled complacently at the occupants of the desks behind, as much as to say: “There, I’ve done all I can to amuse you, and I hope you’re satisfied.”
The Trojan Women of Euripides by Euripides
Judged by common standards, the Troädes is far from a perfect play; it is scarcely even a good play. It is an intense study of one great situation, with little plot, little construction, little or no relief or variety. The only movement of the drama is a gradual extinguishing of all the familiar lights of human life, with, perhaps, at the end, a suggestion that in the utterness of night, when all fears of a possible worse thing are passed, there is in some sense peace and even glory. But the situation itself has at least this dramatic value, that it is different from what it seems.
The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories by Willa Cather
Near Rattlesnake Creek, on the side of a little draw stood Canute’s shanty. North, east, south, stretched the level Nebraska plain of long rust-red grass that undulated constantly in the wind. To the west the ground was broken and rough, and a narrow strip of timber wound along the turbid, muddy little stream that had scarcely ambition enough to crawl over its black bottom. If it had not been for the few stunted cottonwoods and elms that grew along its banks, Canute would have shot himself years ago. The Norwegians are a timber-loving people, and if there is even a turtle pond with a few plum bushes around it they seem irresistibly drawn toward it.
The Truth About Teesta Setalvad by Ed. Ambacharan Vashisht, Dr. Anirban Ganguly, Vikramjit Banerjee
This booklet exposes the activities of one who has been conferred the fourth highest civilian honour of the Republic of India, the Padma Shree, by the UPA Government for contribution in the field of ‘public affairs’. This booklet looks at how this Padma Shree recipient, Teesta Setalvad, instead of working for the honour and well-being of the Republic, seems to have worked to subvert the laws of the land and to have denigrated, on foreign soil, our much respected and democratic and Constitutional institutions. Above all, it reveals how this particular Padma Shree honoree has dealt with the most ordinary citizens of this country in the name of working for their relief and rehabilitation. Perhaps Teesta’s example is one of its kind in India’s history where the one honoured by the Republic seems to have ceaselessly worked to undermine it!
This booklet presents together all documents that give the other story of Teesta Setalvad – in short, it tells the truth about her.
The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine Hartley
It is very difficult to write a preface to a work which is expressly intended as a revelation of the faith of the writer.
The Turkish Empire, Its Growth and Decay by Baron G. Shaw-Lefevre Eversley
The present book ‘The Turkish Empire, Its Growth and Decay’ by Baron G. Shaw-Lefevre Eversley gives a historial account of the Turkish empire’s reign, its growth and development, and its eventual decay. This book was first published in the year 1917.
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw’, first published in 1898, is a novella written by Henry James, who was considered a master of creating best psychological fiction. It is a gothic novel, work of great horror, by one of the most acclaimed authors of the modern European literature.
The Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
It is a strong proof of the diffusive tendency of every thing in this country, that America never yet collected a fleet. Nothing is wanting to this display of power but the will. But a fleet requires only one commander, and a feeling is fast spreading in the country that we ought to be all commanders; unless the spirit of unconstitutional innovation, and usurpation, that is now so prevalent, at Washington, be controlled, we may expect to hear of proposals to send a committee of Congress to sea, in command of a squadron. We sincerely hope that their first experiment may be made on the coast of Africa.
The Two Plans by Deendayal Upadhyaya
distinguished by originality, lucidity and analytical faculty, this book presents a critical study of the two (first & second five year) plans. its penetrating analysis and sound approach shed a great deal of light on conception, inception, execution, promises and performance of the plans. not only that, it gives a timely warning to the airy idealists, selfcomplacent people in power and outside, theoretical statisticians and totalitarian thinkers that it would be desirable to reconsider our whole attitude towards planning, and if we cannot take to correct policies, the future of the whole nation may be jeopardised.
planning is a dynamic process and is based on the traditional values and fundamental postulates of a country’s life and culture. the persons responsible for planning in india seem to have been either ignorant or deliberately preferred to ignore this important consideration.
the book by eminent nationalist thinker pandit deendayal upadhyay raises critical questions and vital issues concerning our socioeconomic ills and evils and their patent and popular remedies imported and imbibed either from the communist or the capitalist countries.
THE UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON by Saki
Francesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China tea and small cress sandwiches. The meal was of that elegant proportion which, while ministering sympathetically to the desires of the moment, is happily reminiscent of a satisfactory luncheon and blessedly expectant of an elaborate dinner to come.
In her younger days Francesca had been known as the beautiful Miss Greech; at forty, although much of the original beauty remained, she was just dear Francesca Bassington. No one would have dreamed of calling her sweet, but a good many people who scarcely knew her were punctilious about putting in the “dear.”
The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud , David McLintock, et al.
It is only rarely that a psycho-analyst feels impelled to investigate the subject of aesthetics, even when aesthetics is understood to mean not merely the theory of beauty but the theory of the qualities of feeling. He works in other strata of mental life and has little to do with the subdued emotional impulses which, inhibited in their aims and dependent on a host of concurrent factors, usually furnish the material for the study of aesthetics. But it does occasionally happen that he has to interest himself in some particular province of that subject; and this province usually proves to be a rather remote one, and one which has been neglected in the specialist literature of aesthetics.
The Unfolding Life by Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux
The greatest thing in the world is a human life. The greatest work in the world is the helpful touch upon that life. Here and there an artist in soul culture is found at the task, but the many are unskilled and the product of the labor is far from a manhood “perfect in Christ.”
In dealing with things, the vessel marred in the making can be set aside or fashioned anew, but a life is for eternity. The faulty work can not be undone. The mistake can never be wholly rectified, for life never yields up what is given it. The look, the word, the invisible atmosphere of the home and church, the sights and sounds of all the busy days enter the super-sensitive and retentive soul of the child and are woven into life tissue. Character has no other from which to fashion itself. Therefore its final beauty and worth will be determined in large measure by the quality of the material which entered in.
The Ungrateful by Ramesh Pokhrial ‘Nishank’
Paulo Coelho’s enchanting novel has inspired a devoted following around the world. This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and inspiring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids.
The Unity of India by Dr Rajendra Prasad
This book brings together twenty-eight selected speeches of Dr. Rajendra Prasad, on the theme of the cultural and political unity of India. In these speeches, the President dwells on the essential unity of Indian culture, which is the heritage of the country’s unbroken history of thousands of years. He emphasizes the need to preserve and strengthen our national unity and to guard against fissiparous tendencies.
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ by Nicolas Notovitch
“…One day, while visiting a Buddhist convent on my route, I learned from a chief lama, that there existed in the archives of Lhassa, very ancient memoirs relating to the life of Jesus Christ and the occidental nations, and that certain great monasteries possessed old copies and translations of those chronicles. As it was little probable that I should make another journey into this country, I resolved to put off my return to Europe until a later date, and, cost what it might, either find those copies in the great convents or go to Lhassa–a journey which is far from being so dangerous and difficult as is generally supposed, involving only such perils as I was already accustomed to, and which would not make me hesitate at attempting it…” – An excerpt from the book
The Unseen Hand by Elijah Kellogg
The Unseen Hand’ is a novel written in 1881 by American Congregationalist minister, lecturer and author of popular boy’s adventure books, Elijah Kellogg.
A vast majority of the noblest intellects of the race have ever held to the idea that,—“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will.” By its influence they have been both consoled and strengthened under the pressures and in the exigencies of life. This principle, to a singular degree, assumes both form and development in the story of James Renfew, the Redemptioner.
The Untempered Wind by Joanna E. Wood
t was early spring, the maples were but budding, the birds newly come and restless, the sky more gray than blue, and the air still sharp with a tang of frost. Jamestown’s streets, however, looked both bright and busy.
Groups of children went to school, hurrying out to the street, and looking this way and that for a companion. A mother came to a gate with a little girl, and pointing now to right, now to left, seemed to give her directions which way to go. The little girl started bravely. She wore a pink cap, and carried a new school-bag. “Hurry on!” a girl called to her, and she advanced uncertainly. A hesitating dignity born of the new school-bag forbade a decided run; her friend’s haste forbade her to linger. They met and passed on together.
An old man, with ophthalmia, feeling his way with a stick and muttering to himself with loose lips, went by. Two brothers crossed the street together, one swinging along easily, smoking a pipe, and carrying an axe over his shoulder; the other advancing with that spasmodic appearance of haste which seems the only gait to which crutches can be compelled.
The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. Hall
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