Cosimo Classics

"Non-fiction is a form of literature that lies half-way between fiction and fact."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The I.O.U. (1920)The I.O.U. by F. Scott Fitzgerald was written early in his professional...

"Then she kissed him until the sky seemed to fade out and all her smiles and tears to vanish in an ecstasy of eternal seconds."―F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace (1920)The Ice Palace...

The truth is that Nature has in her hands a certain paste which is always the same, which she is ever turning over and over again in a thousand ways, and of which she forms men, animals, and plants...

Written in Latin in the early 15th century, The Imitation of Christ is perhaps second only to the Bible in importance in Christian thought. Thomas Hemerken, aka THOMAS ? KEMPIS (1380-1471), was a...

This work, a follow up to his enormously successful 1724 book, Logic (also available from Cosimo) was first published in 1741. In this replica 1837 edition, discover. . Directions for the attainment...

"Those who are quick in talking are not always quick in listening." -G. K. Chesterton, "The Oracle of the Dog" The Incredulity of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton (1926) is the third in a collection...

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660 - 1783Author: Alfred Thayer MahanPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 01, 2007Number of Pages: 640 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

There have been many and various interpretations of the zodiac and its sway upon humanity, but rarely one so generous as this charming 1894 volume. Its complete and tolerant interpretations of the...

The Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of IndiaAuthor: Ramacharaka Yogi RamacharakaPublisher: Cosimo ClassicsPublication Date: Jun 01, 2007Number of Pages: 376 pagesBinding: Paperback...

Followers of the early "New Age" movement known as New Thought, which was wildly popular at the turn of the 20th century, were intensely interested in gleaning the fruit of all of humanity's...

British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies-he is impossible to categorize as "liberal" or "conservative," for instance-across a...

"This book is a record of a pleasure-trip... Yet not-withstanding it is only a record of a picnic, it has a purpose, which is, to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the...

"This book is a record of a pleasure-trip... Yet not-withstanding it is only a record of a picnic, it has a purpose, which is, to suggest to the reader how he would be likely to see Europe and the...

. . . this is a flagrant excursion, a tale for people who still read Dickens and clip out spring poetry and love old people and children . . ." -from the Introduction to The Innocents The Innocents...

. . . this is a flagrant excursion, a tale for people who still read Dickens and clip out spring poetry and love old people and children . . ." -from the Introduction to The Innocents The Innocents...

This curious literary artifact is a travelogue of sorts, a guidebook to the real inns and taverns mentioned in Charles Dickens' first novel, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, or, more...

One of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, American economist and sociologist THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN (1857-1929) is best remembered for coining the phrase "conspicuous consumption." This...

"The value attached to Gaius's powers of theoretical exposition, and to the admirable clearness and method which made his Institutions the basis of all future teaching in Roman law, must have been...

The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume series, encompasses the seven non-Christian religions of Asia: Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. Translated into...

Written in 1577 and first published in English in 1852, The Interior Castle is considered one of the greatest works of Catholic spiritual prose. A painting of the spirit within a Renaissance...

Written in 1577 and first published in English in 1852, The Interior Castle is considered one of the greatest works of Catholic spiritual prose. A painting of the spirit within a Renaissance...

"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe." -Nikola Tesla, The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla (1894) The...

"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe." -Nikola Tesla, The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla (1894) The...

Black magic. Telepathy. The Universal Mind. Such wonders are real, insists spiritualist Alexander Cannon in this 1933 tome, all manifestations of the invisible influence all around us. Subtitled "a...

It's one of the most famous novels of the 19th century, and probably the one that's least actually read. *The Invisible Man, * first published in 1897, became the basis for the classic 1933 film...

Welcome to a world of wild banshees, leprechauns, mermaids, battle-tested kings, churchyard demons, and treasure-guarding cats. This is the world of the Irish fairy tale, a magical realm kept alive...

"Life in these mills is a terrible life," the reformers say. "Men are ground down to scrap and are thrown out as wreckage." This may be so, but my life was spent in the mills and I failed to discover...

"Old Mother Life to her children doth say: - 'Go on with your duties, my dears: On the right hand is work, on the left hand is play; See that you tarry with neither all day, But faithfully build up...

Dr. J. H. Kellogg, who, along with his brother, invented the corn flake, here offers a "popular account of the travels of a breakfast through the food tube and of the ten gates and several stations...

Though its author called it The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, the prominence of said author led to the inevitable informal title by which it is known today: The Jefferson Bible. American...