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A Discourse on Method by René Descartes
“If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals which he has deduced from this Method; in the fourth, the reasonings by which he establishes the existence of God and of the Human Soul, which are the foundations of his Metaphysic; in the fifth, the order of the Physical questions which he has investigated, and, in particular, the explication of the motion of the heart and of some other difficulties pertaining to Medicine, as also the difference between the soul of man and that of the brutes; and, in the last, what the Author believes to be required in order to greater advancement in the investigation of Nature than has yet been made, with the reasons that have induced him to write.” -Preface
A Doll’s House: A Play by Henrik Ibsen
First published in the year 1879, the present book ‘A Doll’s House: A Play’ is a Norwegian play by Henrik Ibsen. This three act play is set in a Norwegian town circa 1879. The play is significant for the way it deals with the fate of a married woman, who at the time in Norway lacked reasonable opportunities for self-fulfillment in a male dominated world. It aroused a great sensation at the time, and caused a “storm of outraged controversy” that went beyond the theatre to the world newspapers and society.
A Dreamer’s Tales by Lord Dunsany
I hope for this book that it may come into the hands of those that were kind to my others and that it may not disappoint them.
To the Editor of the Saturday Review my thanks are due for permission to republish here those of the following tales which have appeared in his columns, and, more than that, for the opportunity afforded me by his review of reaching a wider public than my books have attained to yet.
A Fable for Critics by James Russell Lowell
A Fable for Critics is a book-length poem by American writer James Russell Lowell, first published anonymously in 1848. The poem made fun of well-known poets and critics of the time and brought notoriety to its author.
A Fair Barbarian by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Fair Barbarian by Frances Hodgson Burnett It was Miss Belinda Bassett who received the first shock. Miss Belinda Bassett was a decorous little maiden lady, who lived in a decorous little house on High Street.
A Father’s Advice by E. P. Miller
You are now old enough to know- good from evil; you are old enough to understand what sin means; you know that when you tell a lie, or take what is not your own, you commit a sin; but do you know that sin means disobedience to God’s laws of every kind?
A Few Facts about British Rule in India by The Hindustan Gadar
In 1893 the PIONEEE sums up Mr. Grierson’s facts regarding the various sections of the population in Gaya: “Briefly, it is that all the persons of the labouring classes, and 10 per cent of the cultivating and artisan classes, or 45 per cent of the total population, are insufficiently clothed, or insufficiently fed, or both. In Gaya district this would give about a million persons without sufficient means of support. If we assume that the circumstances of Gaya are not exceptional — and there is no reason for thinking otherwise — it follows that nearly 100,000,000 of people in British India are living in extreme poverty.”
A Field Study of the Kansas Ant-Eating Frog, Gastrophryne olivacea by Fitch
HENRY S. FITCH’s book ‘A Field Study of the Kansas Ant-Eating Frog, Gastrophryne olivacea’ is a detailed, well researched scientific work around animal habitat and life sciences. This book will interest those who wish to study about different strange species of various animals and living organisms with their different behaviors effected by their surrounding climate.
A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece by Charles Stewart Given
Among the smaller forces, which operate upon the mind and tend toward strengthening and exalting the best ideals, are little books like this. They are especially valuable when so much of the author’s own experience forms a thread upon which are suspended jewels of thought and illustration serviceable to those who would see and know the best things.
The book is recommended to all those who would become more familiar with “the key to that cabinet of character, in which nature conceals not only the motive power of every-day life but those latent talents and energies that through a knowledge of self can bear upon our lives.” This book will help many who have small opportunities in the form of time and money to expend in larger volumes.
-Preface by Charles Stewart Given
A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go by Randolph Caldecott
This book is very useful for children and is beneficial in the development of children because the best category of pictures and poetry is included in the books. And the curriculum of these books has been given in a way that helps in the development of children.
A Garland for Girls by Louisa May Alcott
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
A General History of the Pyrates by Daniel Defoe
First published in the year 1724, the present book titled ‘A General History of the Pyrates’ is a historical work by English fictional writer and journalist Daniel Defoe.
A General View of Positivism by Auguste Comte
Positivism is not simply a system of Philosophy; nor is it simply a new form of Religion; nor is it simply a scheme of social regeneration. It partakes of all of these, and professes to harmonize them under one dominant conception that is equally philosophic and social. ‘Its primary object,’ writes Comte, ‘is twofold: to generalize our scientific conceptions and to systematize the art of social life.’ Accordingly Comte’s ideal embraces the three main elements ofix which human life consists—Thoughts, Feelings and Actions.’ -an excerpt from the book
A Gentleman of Courage by James Oliver Curwood
First published in the year 1924, famous English writer James Oliver Curwood’s fictional novel ‘A Gentleman of Courage’ is a romantic and adventurous novel set in 1890s.
A Girl of High Adventure by L. T. Meade
Marguerite St. Juste was Irish on her mother’s side, who was born of the Desmonds of Desmondstown in the County Kerry. Marguerite’s father was a French Comte, whose grandfather had been one of the victims of the guillotine.
Little Marguerite lived with an uncle, who was really only that relation by marriage; his name was the Reverend John Mansfield. He had a large living in a large town about fifty miles from London, and he adopted Marguerite shortly after the death of her parents. This tragedy happened when she was very young, almost a baby. She did not in the least remember her father, whose dancing black eyes and merry ways had endeared him to all who knew him. Nor did she recall a single fact with regard to her mother—one of those famous Desmonds, who had joined the rebels in the great insurrection of ’97, and whose people still lived and prospered and were gay and merry of the merry on their somewhat tattered and worn-out country estate.
A Graduated English-Welsh Spelling Book by John Lewis
The object of this work is to facilitate the progress of Welsh children in the acquisition of the English language. Every one admits that it is of the highest importance in the education of the young, that they should be well grounded in Orthography. Thirty years’ experience as a teacher having given the author ample opportunity of noting the peculiar difficulties in the way of Welsh children attaining a general knowledge of the English language, he would beg leave to impress upon teachers the importance of making the children under their care learn and spell every word in this little book, together with the Welsh meanings.
A Great Man: A Frolic by Arnold Bennett
The letter upon which he was now engaged was numbered seventy-five in the series, and made its appeal to the editor of the Standard. Having found inspiration, Mr. Knight proceeded, in a hand distinguished by many fine flourishes: —From Book
A Guide to the Best Historical Novels and Tales by Jonathan Nield
These Historical Novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and yet was as good as unkwon to writers of history and others, till so taught: that the bygone ages of the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men.
A Handbook of Health by Woods Hutchinson
LOOKING upon the human body from the physical point of view as the most perfect, most ingeniously economical, and most beautiful of living machines, the author has attempted to write a little handbook of practical instruction for the running of it.
A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. Latham
R. G. Latham’s first work on the structure of the English Lan guage, and the allied subjects, such as its history, dialects, and its place in the indo-european family, was published in 1841. These were questions that, in the main, were held to be important because they were introductory to others of a higher kind i.e. The study of Comparative Philology, in general.
A Happy Boy by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature “as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished
A History of Advertising by Henry Sampson
First published in the year 1874, the present book ‘A History of Advertising’ was written and published by Henry Sampson. This book is a volume of history of the advertising world, including its inception, evolving forms, and how it has been effecting businesses, economy, social sector and everything else that functions in the world.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement
We do not know how long the earth has existed, and in studying the most ancient times of which we have any accurate knowledge, we come upon facts which prove that men must have lived and died long before the dates of which we can speak exactly. The earliest nations of whose Architecture we can give an account are called heathen nations, and their art is called Ancient or Heathen Art, and this comes down to the time when the Roman Emperor Constantine was converted to Christianity, and changed the Roman Capitol from Rome to Constantinople in the year of our Lord 328.
A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement
In speaking of art we often contrast the useful or mechanical arts with the Fine Arts; by these terms we denote the difference between the arts which are used in making such things as are necessary and useful in civilized life, and the arts by which ornamental and beautiful things are made.
A History of Chester Cathedral by John Hicklin
WHEN we reflect upon the momentous and happy results which have always followed the introduction of Christianity amongst a people;—how it has ever proved an up-lifting and progressive power; influencing man in the holiest affections and most inward laws of his moral being; extending its benign agency through all the relationships of social life, and acting in various methods as a living principle in the community;—we think that in ascribing to our religious history a deeper significance and importance than appertains to any other department of inquiry, we are only claiming for it a position which may be established by a wide induction of facts.
A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
Indian philosopher and scholar Surendranath Dasgupta’s book ‘A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1’ was first published in the year 1922. This book is an attempt to introduce the readers of philosophy with the richness and relevance of Indian philosophy through its history in great details.
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Beckmann
That the arts had their rise in the East, and that they were conveyed thence to the Greeks, and from them to the Romans, is universally admitted. Respecting the inventions and discoveries however of the earliest ages, nothing certain is known. Many of those most useful in common life must have been the production of periods when men were little acquainted with letters, or any sure mode of transmitting an account of their improvements to succeeding generations. The taste which then prevailed of giving to every thing a divine origin, rendered traditional accounts fabulous; and the exaggeration of poets tended more and more to make such authorities less worthy of credit. A variety of works also, which might have supplied us with information on this subject, have been lost; and the relations of some of those preserved are so corrupted and obscure, that the best commentators have not been able to illustrate them. This in particular is the case with many passages in Pliny, an author who appears to have collected with the utmost diligence whatever he thought useful or curious, and whose desire of communicating knowledge seems to have been equal to his thirst for acquiring it.
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Beckmann
The power of steam was not entirely unknown to the ancients, but before the æra rendered memorable by the discoveries of James Watt, the steam-engine, which has since become the object of such universal interest, was a machine of extremely limited power, inferior in importance and usefulness to most other mechanical agents used as prime movers. Hero of Alexandria, who lived about 120 years before the birth of Christ, has left us the description of a machine, in which a continued rotatory motion was imparted to an axis by a blast of steam issuing from lateral orifices in arms placed at right angles to it. About the beginning of the seventeenth century, a French engineer, De Caus, invented a machine by which a column of water might be raised by the pressure of steam confined in the vessel, above the water to be elevated; and in 1629, Branca, an Italian philosopher, contrived a plan of working several mills by a blast of steam against the vanes; from the descriptions, however, which have been left us of these contrivances, it does not appear that their projectors were acquainted with those physical properties of elasticity and condensation on which the power of steam as a mechanical agent depends.
A History of Roman Classical Literature. by R. W. Browne
The history of Roman Classical Literature, although it comprehends the names of many illustrious writers and many voluminous works, is, chronologically speaking, contained within narrow limits. Dating from its earliest infancy, until the epoch when it ceased to deserve the title of classical, its existence occupies a period of less than four centuries.
A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Robert Henry Thurston
Robert Henry Thurston’s present book ‘A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine’, as evident from the title itself, gives the history of the development and changes in the model of the steam engine. It was first published in the year 1886.
A History of the New Thought Movement by Horatio W. Dresser
Chapters include: The New Age; Quimby The Pioneer; Quimby’s Method Of Healing; The First Author; The Beginnings Of Christian Science; The Mental Science Period; The New Thought; The First Organizations; The First Conventions; The International New Thought Alliance; Other Organizations; The Movement In Foreign Lands; Looking Forward; and, Kindred Movements.
A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
First published in the year 1905, the present book ‘A History of the Philippines’ by David P. Barrows was written on the Philippinean government’s recommendation with an aim to provide the history of their country to the students in schools.
A History of the United States by Cecil Chesterton
A People’s History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn presented what he considered to be a different side of history from the more traditional “fundamental nationalist glorification of country”.
A House of Gentlefolk by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
A bright spring day was fading into evening. High overhead in the clear heavens small rosy clouds seemed hardly to move across the sky but to be sinking into its depths of blue.
In a handsome house in one of the outlying streets of the government town of O—— (it was in the year 1842) two women were sitting at an open window; one was about fifty, the other an old lady of seventy.
The name of the former was Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin. Her husband, a shrewd determined man of obstinate bilious temperament, had been dead for ten years. He had been a provincial public prosecutor, noted in his own day as a successful man of business. He had received a fair education and had been to the university; but having been born in narrow circumstances he realized early in life the necessity of pushing his own way in the world and making money.
A House-Boat on the Styx by John Kendrick Bangs
First published in the year 1895, the present fantasy novel ‘A House-Boat on the Styx’ by John Kendrick Bangs begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx being startled—and annoyed—by the arrival of a houseboat on the Styx. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out that he is actually to be appointed the boat’s janitor. What follows are eleven more stories which are set on the house boat.
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
The present book ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’ by Daniel Defoe is a historical fictional novel. It was first published in the year 1722. This novel is an account of one man’s experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague or the bubonic plague struck the city of London. The book is told somewhat chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings.
A Journey from This World to the Next by Henry Fielding
“Whether the ensuing pages were really the dream or vision of some very pious and holy person; or whether they were really written in the other world, and sent back to this, which is the opinion of many (though I think too much inclining to superstition); or lastly, whether, as infinitely the greatest part imagine, they were really the production of some choice inhabitant of New Bethlehem, is not necessary nor easy to determine. It will be abundantly sufficient if I give the reader an account by what means they came into my possession.” -Introduction
A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett
“On a wintry morning at the close of 1690, the sun shining faint and red through a light fog, there was a great noise of baying dogs, loud voices, and trampling of horses in the courtyard at Wildairs Hall; Sir Jeoffry being about to go forth a-hunting, and being a man with a choleric temper and big, loud voice, and given to oaths and noise even when in good-humour, his riding forth with his friends at any time was attended with boisterous commotion.” -an excerpt
A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one’s life and sigh. Not lovable, like the Sandwich Islands, but beautiful in its own way! A strictly North American beauty—snow-splotched mountains, huge pines, red-woods, sugar pines, silver spruce; a crystalline atmosphere, waves of the richest color; and a pine-hung lake which mirrors all beauty on its surface. Lake Tahoe is before me, a sheet of water twenty-two miles long by ten broad, and in some places 1,700 feet deep. It lies at a height of 6,000 feet, and the snow-crowned summits which wall it in are from 8,000 to 11,000 feet in altitude. The air is keen and elastic. There is no sound but the distant and slightly musical ring of the lumberer’s axe.
A Laodicean : A Story of To-day by Thomas Hardy
“The changing of the old order in country manors and mansions may be slow or sudden, may have many issues romantic or otherwise, its romantic issues being not necessarily restricted to a change back to the original order; though this admissible instance appears to have been the only romance formerly recognized by novelists as possible in the case. Whether the following production be a picture of other possibilities or not, its incidents may be taken to be fairly well supported by evidence every day forthcoming in most counties.” -Preface
A Lear of the Steppes, etc. by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
An examination of A Lear of the Steppes is of especial interest to authors, as the story is so exquisite in its structure, so overwhelming in its effects, that it exposes the artificiality of the great majority of the clever works of art in fiction. A Lear of the Steppes is great in art because it is a living organic whole, springing from the deep roots of life itself; and the innumerable works of art that are fabricated and pasted together from an ingenious plan—works that do not grow from the inevitability of things—appear at once insignificant or false in comparison.
A Letter to a Hindu by Graf Leo Tolstoy
Whenever thou feelest that thy feet are becoming entangled in the interlaced roots of life, know that thou has strayed from the path to which I beckon thee: for I have placed thee in broad, smooth paths, which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light before thee, which thou canst follow and thus run without stumbling. KRISHNA.
A Life of William Shakespeare by Sir Sidney Lee
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book,, was an immediate popular success and was regarded for much of the twentieth century as the most reliable account of Shakespeare’s life then available.
A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia by J. G. Bartholomew
Fourth in the series of special atlases designed for “Everyman’s Library” the present volume deals with the countries of Asia, whose history and geography, and whose possibilities, great and grave, are alike reflected in the maps and charts that follow. When Queen Elizabeth granted to certain merchants of London a charter that gave them a roving commission to trade in the East Indies, she could not foresee the immense developments that were to rise from that adventurous commerce between east and west. The successive maps of India with their frontier changes mark the gradual advance of an old world toward the new one knit by powerful mutual ties to the Isle of Britain; and recently we have seen what it is to be hoped will open a greater era for those regions, marked by a return to the old capital of Delhi, and a resuming of ancient rites which first gained their symbolism in those lands.
A Literary History of Ireland by Douglas Hyde
A wonderful authoritative treatise covering the history from foreign sources, Druidism, early missionaries (Patrick, Brigit, etc.), the use of letters, Columcille, the Danish period, classic Irish poets. The author later became the first President of Ireland. – See more at: https:++www.thornbooks.com+pages+books+19950+douglas-hyde-an-craoibhin-aoibhinn+a-literary-history-of-ireland#sthash.WZHesz5o.dpuf
A Little Journey by Ray Bradbury
First published in the year 1951, Ray Bradbury’s story ‘A Little Journey’ was written for the Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. This marks the celebrated Galaxy editor Horace Gold’s last editorial work at Galaxy.
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess’ is a children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was first published as a book in the year 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story ‘Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s’. It is one of the most read and critically acclaimed children’s fantasy novel since it’s first publication.
A Lost Lady by Willa Cather
Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady was first published in 1923. It tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester who live in the Western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad.
A Lost Leader by Dorothea Townshend
One December evening, in the year 1648, the little town of Farnham showed unusual signs of life. Troopers were dismounting and leading their horses away to their stables, or were lounging at the doors of the houses where they were quartered, and a crowd of curious country folk and villagers gathered to stare at them, and even to put questions to the more affable-looking of the steel-coated soldiers.
The press was greatest round the entrance of a house of the better class that stood back from the street with all the dignity that a flagged forecourt and a couple of high brick gate-pillars could lend it.
There the sentries, who were stationed at the door, had some ado to keep back the curious throng, and many a sturdy country farmer shouldered his way into the house in the wake of his squire to catch a glimpse of his king, the ill-fated King Charles, who was to rest that night at Farnham on his last journey from the prison at Hurst Castle to the scaffold at Whitehall.
A Lowden Sabbath Morn by Robert Louis Stevenson
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.