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Henry Rider Haggard was a British Victorian writer known for his adventure novels set is exotic places. His writings are sympathetic to the natives. He often portrayed Africans as heroic in his...

Allan QuatermainAuthor: H. Rider HaggardPublisher: Book JunglePublication Date: Mar 13, 2008Number of Pages: 256 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1605972223ISBN-13: 9781605972220

Henry Rider Haggard was a British Victorian writer known for his adventure novels set is exotic places. His writings are sympathetic to the natives. He often portrayed Africans as heroic in his...

By this time the American people have probably become convinced that the Germans deliberately planned the conquest of the world. Yet they hesitate to convict on circumstantial evidence and for this...

"By this time the American people have probably become convinced that the Germans deliberately planned the conquest of the world. Yet they hesitate to convict on circumstantial evidence and for this...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...

Ztkala-Sa was a Sioux Indian. She was one of the first to write down the stories of her tribe. The first group of stories is autobiographical. At eight she leaves on the Iron Horse to go to school in...

We Have witnessed in this last eight years the spread of revolution over one third of the world. The causes of these explosions lie at far greater depths than the failure of governments in war. The...

My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. They can examine for themselves...

Ibsen, considered to be the father of modern drama, was a Norwegian playwright. He is responsible for "realistic drama". During the Victorian era Ibsen's writings were considered scandalous. In An...

David Hume (April 26, 1711 - August 25, 1776)[1] was a Scottish philosopher and historian. He is often considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy. Although in...

Carey was an early 19th century missionary and Baptist minister. He was one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society. He is credited with translating the Bible into Bengali, Sanskrit, and...

Carey was an early 19th century missionary and Baptist minister. He was one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society. He is credited with translating the Bible into Bengali, Sanskrit, and...

Andrew Ferguson was born in 1723 in Scotland. He was an historian and philosopher of the Scottish "common sense" school, l which was a forerunner of t modern sociology. Ferguson was a clergyman and...

This 1895 play revolves around blackmail and political corruption. The theme of public and private honor runs throughout the work. The play opens at a fashionable dinner party in London. Several...

This 1895 play revolves around blackmail and political corruption. The theme of public and private honor runs throughout the work. The play opens at a fashionable dinner party in London. Several...

This 1895 play revolves around blackmail and political corruption. The theme of public and private honor runs throughout the work. The play opens at a fashionable dinner party in London. Several...

That was its conception; yet, as in the case of many another, the conceiver was unaware of it at the moment.Author: W. D. HowellsPublisher: Book JunglePublication Date: Mar 27, 2006Number of Pages:...

One who undertakes to represent certain results of scientific spiritual research of the kind recorded in this book, must above all things be prepared to find that this kind of investigation is at the...

Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian SymbolismAuthor: Thomas InmanPublisher: Book JunglePublication Date: Dec 20, 2005Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1594621071ISBN-13:...

This early 20th Century feminist novel tells the story of five men shipwrecked on an island. While there they meet five flying women. This is a picturesque novel full of romance and high ideals. The...

Rand was a Russian born American author who pioneered the philosophy of "objectivism". Anthem is a futuristic science fiction novella. Man is in a dark age, because of earlier socialistic values...

Rand was a Russian born American author who pioneered the philosophy of "objectivism". Anthem is a futuristic science fiction novella. Man is in a dark age, because of earlier socialistic values...

Rand was a Russian born American author who pioneered the philosophy of "objectivism". Anthem is a futuristic science fiction novella. Man is in a dark age, because of earlier socialistic values...

It may be well that I should put a short preface to this book. In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had written a memoir of his own life. He did not speak about it at length, but said that...

H G wells wrote both fiction and non-fiction. He worked in many genres including novels, history, and social commentaries. Wells was a leading socialist. Anticipations is a comprehensive study of the...

Seneca offen referred to as Seneca the Younger was a stoic philosopher in Rome in the first century B C. Besides being a statesman and dramatist, he was a tutor and advisor to Nero. In 65 A D Seneca...

John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890) was a Roman Catholic cardinal. In 1991 he was proclaimed Venerable. As a young man he was active in the Oxford Movement which tried to bring the Church of England back...

Plato studied under Socrates and was Aristotle's teacher. Together these three Greeks developed the basis of philosophical thinking for the entire Western world. Plato was also a writer,...

Marie Corelli was born in England. She was the illegitimate daughter of the Scottish poet Charles Mackey and his servant. Marie was sent to a Parisian convent for her education. Ardath was one of...