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“Over the valley of the Mission of the Tragedies, the grass was knee-deep in March that year. The horses galloping from the mesa trail down to Boca de la Playa (the mouth of the ocean) were fat and sleek and tricky as they ran neck and neck past the corral of the little plain, and splashed in glee through the San Juan River, where it ends its short run from the Sierras to the Pacific.” -an excerpt

On the evening of May 3, 1827, the garden of a large red-brick bow-windowed mansion called North End House, which, enclosed in spacious grounds, stands on the eastern height of Hampstead Heath, between Finchley Road and the Chestnut Avenue, was the scene of a domestic tragedy.

Forbidden fruit is a phrase that originates from Genesis concerning Adam and Eve in Genesis 2:16–17. In the narrative, Adam and Eve ate the fruit of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, which they had been commanded not to do by God

ASHELF full of books belonging to the American children of colonial times and of the early days of the Republic presents a strangely unfamiliar and curious appearance. If chronologically placed, the earliest coverless chap-books are hardly noticeable next to their immediate successors with wooden sides; and these, in turn, are dominated by the gilt, silver, and many colored bindings of diminutive dimensions which hold the stories dear to the childish heart from Revolutionary days to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Then bright blue, salmon, yellow, and marbled paper covers make a vivid display which, as the century grows older, fades into the sad-colored cloth bindings thought adapted to many children’s books of its second quarter.

An interesting and useful manual with intrinsic information about many games that one can play while staying indoors, ‘Foster’s Complete Hoyle’ is written by R. F. Foster.

A compendium of four most remarkable romances about the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, and associated figures of the Arthurian mythos. This compendium consists of the tales of EREC ET ENIDE, CLIGES, YVAIN, and LANCELOT.

“Hello! there, Bristles!”
“Hello! yourself, Fred Fenton!”
“Why, what ails you this fine summer morning, Bristles? You don’t look as jolly as you might.”
“Well, I was only waiting to see if you cared to speak to me, Fred.”
“Why in the wide world shouldn’t I, when you’re one of my chums, Bristles Carpenter?”

“I see you’re limping again, Fred.”
“That’s right, Bristles. I stubbed my toe at the very start of this cross-country run, and that lost me all chance of coming in ahead. That’s why I fell back, and have been loafing for a stretch.”
“And let me catch up with you; eh? Well, I reckon long-legged Colon will have a cinch in this race, Fred.”

First published in the year 1899, the present book by Charles W. Chesnutt is a biography of famous Frederick Douglass, an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

Communism and Socialism represent different and yet allied movements of theory and practice. They aim to improve the common lot of humanity, in particular that of the lower classes, in a radical manner and by the application of thoroughgoing measures.

A most prepossessing young person whose parents had inflicted upon her the name of Lolita Murphy was directly responsible for the alarming symptoms already hinted at. From the precise moment that Lolita came within his ken Jimmy ceased to be a rational being in full control of his faculties and his heart, in sympathetic accord with the agitated condition of its owner, began to put on an antic disposition and indulged in curious palpitations of a most annoying nature on the slightest pretext. The usual provocation at first was the sight of Lolita herself, but after a day or two even the thought of her produced a cardiac ratiplan that would have done credit to the trap drummer of a jazz band.

Friendship Village is not known to me, nor are any of its people, save in the comradeship which I offer here. But I commend for occupancy a sweeter place. For us here the long Caledonia hills, the four rhythmic spans of the bridge, the nearer river, the island where the first birds build—these teach our windows the quiet and the opportunity of the “home town,” among the “home people.” To those who have such a bond to cherish I commend the little real home towns, their kindly, brooding companionship, their doors to an efficiency as intimate as that of fairy fingers. If there were shrines to these things, we would seek them. The urgency is to recognize shrines.

First published in the year 1895, the present book ‘From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America’ was written by Longstreet. It has various memoirs of the personalities involved with the American Civil War.

Chapters include: The lesson of evil, The world a reflex of mental states, The way out of undesirable conditions, The silent power of thought: controlling and directing one’s forces, The secret of health, success, and power, The secret of abounding happiness, The realization of prosperity, The power of meditation, The two masters, self and truth, The acquirement of spiritual power, The realization of selfless love, Entering into the infinite, Saints, sages and saviors: the law of service, and, The realization of perfect peace.

An 1865 illustrated novel, ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ by Jules Verne tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, which is a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts. It narrates the group members’ attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club’s president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a moon landing.

Futuria Fantasia, Summer 1939′ is Ray Bradbury’s classic science fiction story. It is fantasy fiction that involves a lot of science and time travel related elements in it’s plot.

Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940′ is Ray Bradbury’s classic science fiction story. It is fantasy fiction that involves a lot of science and time travel related elements in it’s plot.

John Masefield’s present book ‘Gallipoli’ was first published in the year 1916. This book is a detailed description of the American Australian war. “A little while ago, during a short visit to America, I was often questioned about the Dardanelles Campaign. People asked me why that attempt had been made, why it had been made in that particular manner, why other courses had not been taken, why this had been done and that either neglected or forgotten, and whether a little more persistence, here or there, would not have given us the victory.” -an excerpt

The struggle for Indian Home Rule which was started with the inauguration of the Indian National Congress has many difficulties to encounter, has strong and powerful opponents and has received many checks. But its strongest opponent is Mr. Gandhi and perhaps the most severe check it has received is the adoption by the National Congress at his instance in Calcutta and Nagpur of the so-called-Non-violent Non-co-operation. Non-co-operation as advocated by Mr. Gandhi may be a weapon to be used when constitutional methods have failed to achieve our purpose. Non-violence and passive suffering will lead to bloodshed or be unfruitful of any satisfactory results. Moreover, nothing shows the lack of statesmanship more than practically basing the claim for Swaraj upon the Punjab and the Khilafat grievances.

My experience of all India tells me that the Hindus and Muslim know how to live at peace among themselves. I decline to believe that people have said goodbye to their senses so as to make it impossible to live at peace with each other, as they had done for generations.

The limited first edition of the book was designed and produced as a presentation to Dr. R.R. Diwakar, Chairman of the Foundation, on his seventieth birthday. The present edition is a considerable revised and enlarged one, and is in many ways a more unified volume of studies. Some of the new material had first appeared in the pages of Gandhi Marg, the quarterly journal of the Foundation.

It was rather impossible for me to hate anyone in this world. My firm belief in God has helped me lead a pious life. For the last forty years, it has been utterly impossible for me to despise anyone. I know I am being boastful, yet I politely insist on it. Wherever a misdeed is committed, I shall be there and condemn it firmly. I really do as I say.

This is the first pictorial biography of Gandhi in which the narrative-concise, readable and incisive is illustrated with contemporary photographs and facsimiles of letters, newspaper reports and cartoons, adding up to a fascinating flash-back on the life of Mahatma Gandhi and the struggle for Indian freedom led by him. There is a skilful matching in this book of text and illustrations, of description and analysis and of concrete detail and large perspective. This pictorial biography will revive many memories in those who have lived through the Gandhian era; it should also be of interest to the post-independence generation.

It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. But I shall not mind, if every page of it speaks only of my experiments.

Once Gandhiji had stayed at Gokhale’s house in Calcutta (Kolkata). While returning Gokhaleji went to see him off. Gandhiji requested him not to go through all that trouble but he did not listen to him. He said, “If you were traveling in the upper class just like others I wouldn’t have come. But since you are going in the third class, I must see you off.”
People like Gokhale who appreciated Gandhiji so much, were very rare in those days. Generally, people would laugh at it.
Gandhiji got an opportunity to know his poor countrymen while going through the suffering of the third class. Due to this only he could know their nature, their habits and so many other things about them. No other leader in the country knew the countrymen so well as Gandhiji did. That is how he became the saviour of the country and the people followed him with faith. The people were devoted to him.

The satyagraha struggle of the Indians in South Africa lasted eight years. The term satyagraha was invented and employed in connection therewith. I had long entertained a desire to write a history of that struggle myself. Some things only I could write. Only the general who conducts a campaign can know the objective of each particular move. and as this was the first attempt to apply the principle of satyagraha to politics on a large scale, it is necessary any day that the public should have an idea of its development.
—M. K. GANDHI

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais, which tells of the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel.

It is not impossible that in the minds of some persons the idea of employing gentle measures in the management and training of children may seem to imply the abandonment of the principle of authority, as the basis of the parental government, and the substitution of some weak and inefficient system of artifice and manoeuvring in its place. To suppose that the object of this work is to aid in effecting such a substitution as that, is entirely to mistake its nature and design. The only government of the parent over the child that is worthy of the name is one of authority—complete, absolute, unquestioned authority. The object of this work is, accordingly, not to show how the gentle methods which will be brought to view can be employed as a substitute for such authority, but how they can be made to aid in establishing and maintaining it.

Harry Castlemon is the pseudoname of Charles Austin Fosdick. His series of adventure and action written for boys got famous in the 19th century. The present book is story of George Ackerman, who is a sturdy, broad-shouldered youth, about fifteen years of age. He was one of the boys introduced in the concluding volume of the “Boy Trapper Series,” who was known for his adventures and exploits. We find him now at his home in Texas, sitting on the porch in front of the house in which he lived, busily engaged in mending a broken bridle with an awl and a piece of waxed-end.

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