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This volume assembles 12 classic tales by Alan E. Nourse: "Bear Trap" originally appeared in Fantastic Universe, December 1957. "Circus," "The Dark Door," "Image of the Gods," "The Link," "Meeting of...

This book is a complete course in writing fiction. Drawing examples from the works of such masters as Poe, Hawthorne, and Robert Louis Stevenson, it offers a guided course through such vital topics...

The career of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, reflects the political battles of nearly thirty years of English politics. In an age when duplicity, intrigue, personality, and an immediate history...

James Allen's second book collects 14 of his inspirational essays. Included in this volume are: "The Soul's Great Need," "The Competitive Laws and the Law of Love," "The Finding of a Principle," "At...

The Old New Land (or "Altneuland" in the original German) is a utopian novel published by Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism, in 1902. Outlining Herzl's vision for a Jewish state in the...

Marine Corps Warfighting Publication (MCWP) 3-16.1, Artillery Operations, provides an overview of fundamentals, organization, support requirements, and tactical considerations used by Marine...

He who will step aside from the passionate press, and will deign to notice and to enter the byways which are here presented, his dusty feet shall press the incomparable flowers of blessedness, his...

In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. Chambers is a fantasy novel that blends adventure, romance, and the supernatural. The protagonist, a zoologist and explorer, embarks on a quest to discover and...

In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. Chambers is a fantasy novel that blends adventure, romance, and the supernatural. The protagonist, a zoologist and explorer, embarks on a quest to discover and...

Sabine Baring-Gould (28 January 1834 - 2 January 1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, and eclectic scholar. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known...

Le?nidas Andreiev, uno de los m?s grandes maestros de la literatura rusa moderna, acaba de morir a la edad de cuarenta y siete a?os. Nacido en el centro de Rusia, en Orel, de una familia pobre,...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and...

The aims of this study of Nature Mysticism, and the methods adopted for attaining them, are described in the introductory chapter. It may be said, by way of special preface, that the nature mystic...

For this first time, this volume assembles three of Frank Herbert's classic short stories: "Old Rambling House" (originally published in 'Galaxy Science Fiction' magazine, April 1958); "Missing Link"...

This edition of Immanuel Kant's "Philosophical Essay," translated into English by M. Campbell Smith, M.A. and with a Preface by Professor Latta, provides one of the most comprehensive editions of...

Russell Conwell was an influential and highly successful Baptist minister who introduced ideas about prosperity and abundance that were, at the time, highly controversial in the world of Christianity...

God has sent on earth prophets to teach men the prescription of happiness. This alchemy may be briefly described as turning away from the world to God, and its constituents are the knowledge of self...

"The Beautiful and Damned", first published in 1922, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), his...

Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) was a Japanese swordsman famed for his distinctive style and excellent swordsmanship even from a very young age. Musashi, as he was often simply known, went on to author...

The Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne is a classic adventure novel that tells the story of three boys-Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin-who are shipwrecked on a remote tropical island. The novel follows their...

E. M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy in...

The Real Diary of a Real Boy by Henry A. Shute is a humorous, semi-autobiographical novel that captures the daily life of an exuberant and mischievous eleven-year-old boy in 1860s New England...

Thomas W. Hanshew (1857-1914) was an American actor and writer. Hanshew's best-known creation was the consulting detective Hamilton Cleek, known as "the man of the forty faces" for his incredible...

Dominic Flandry is the central character in the second half of Poul Anderson's "Technic History" series. He first appeared in 1951. The space opera series is set in the thirty-first century, during...

The narrator -- led by a mysterious dwarf -- takes a journey into the Alps to a secret Rosicrucian enclave, where he witnesses first-hand Alchemy, Past Lives, Psychic Travel, Water Spirits, and other...