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“The Anniversary” is a play by Anton Chekhov.

Anton Chekhov (29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

Great Stories and poems for children is a collection of most delightful childrens stories.

The Antichrist’ is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. It got published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck and Heinrich Köselitz delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo.

A book of framed tales with infinite contrasts in the moods and moralities in each of the stories, ‘The Arabian Nights’ have always been Fantastic, magnificent, extravagant, beautiful, gloriously colored, humorous. It has the life and movement of the tales, the spirits that enter and set their own precedents; there is for us the charm of mingling with men so different from ourselves: men adventurous but never strenuous, men of many tribulations but no perplexities.

It is a collection of selected framed tales from the ‘Tales From Thousand and One Nights’, also known as the ‘Arabian Nights’. These tales have mystery, magic, politics, romance, adventure, fantasy, and lot more.

Chapters include: Personal Magnetism; Mental and Physical Poles; The Mental Phase; The Physical Phase; Physical Magnetism; Generating Nerve-Force; Distributing Nerve-Force; Nerve-Force Exercises; Projecting Nerve-Force; Mental Radiation; Mental Attitudes; The Mental Atmosphere; Magnetic Currents; The Direct Flash; Exercises in the Direct Flash; The Positive Aura; The Direct Command; The Magnetic Duel; Corporeal Magnetism; and, Magnetic Self-Defense.

The solid fortunes have been amassed through investment and not made by speculation.

Know what you can control and what you can’t
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can’t control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

The Art of Logical Thinking is a compelling case for the need for rational thought and reasoning, and sets forth guidelines and examples to help readers incorporate these principles into their lives.

William Walker Atkinson was an attorney, merchant, publisher, and author, as well as an occultist and an American pioneer of the New Thought movement.

“In marking the progress of their growth, I usually committed to writing those plans which I had found to have been productive of beneficial effects. The result of these remarks has proved the compilation of the following treatise, undertaken at the request of several horticulturists, who have expressed their desire to become acquainted with the process of my mode of cultivation.” -Author’s Preface

French priest, philosopher and author Ernest Dimnet’s book ‘The Art of Thinking’ is one of the most popular self-help book from 1930s. Dimnet’s “The art of thinking” invites the reader into a state of honesty where he evaluates himself as a thoughtful human being. Dimnet brings up the fact that we too often only “think of thinking” about something instead of actually thinking.

First published in the year 1855, the present book ‘The Art of Travel; Or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries’ by Sir Francis Galton was conceived during a voyage to southwestern Africa. Quaint, practical, and VERY politically incorrect, this wonderful time capsule reveals how Tibetans keep warm, how the Chinese stop asses braying, how to build a snow house, and a multitude of tried, tested, and now forgotten tips.

First published in the year 1905, the present volume of two of the important works of the famous political philosopher, poet, playwright and writer during the Italian Renaissance Niccolò Machiavelli. This volume consists ‘The Prince’ and ‘The Art of War’.

The art of wise investing; a series of short articles on investment values, pointing out the essential characteristics of safe investment securities, with a review of the financial pitfalls into which superficial examination inevitably leads.
While the popular impression is probably the reverse, yet it is an undeniable fact that a far vaster sum of money is annually lost in this country through unwise investment, than through pure speculation.

The classic manual on writing and speaking – learn how to communicate clearly and effectively and discover how you may be holding yourself back.

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.

The Athenian Constitution’ by Aristotle was first found preserved on two leaves off papyrus codex at Oxyrhynchus, Egypt in 1879. It describes the political system of ancient Athens.

The present book is originally a document of detailed expert investigation of the atomic bombing that took place at Hiroshima, Japan, during the final stage of the World War II by the United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District.

A truly fascinating ethno-biography of an Indian man from the Winnebago tribe. Split into two parts and heavily footnoted. Part One deals with the life of the man as he is growing up in his tribe. He recalls the trouble he got into, his experiences with peyote, his conversion, his time in prison and much more. Part Two contain the teachings of his father and include advice on things like medicine, fasting, marriage and relatives. Originally published in 1920, this is an extraordinarily interesting and honest read.

First published in the year 1912, ‘The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man’ by James Weldon Johnson is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to as the “Ex-Colored Man”, living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

I was born in 1864 at the old house known as “Sen’s House” which my great-grandfather built at Coolootola, a part of Calcutta where many of our family lived. My birth was always remembered in connection with a storm which occurred when I was six days old, a most important time to a Hindu baby, for then the Creator is supposed to visit the home, and write upon its forehead the little one’s fate. Perhaps people will think the stormy weather in the beginning signified a stormy future for me.

No girl could have been more fortunate in her parents than I. My father, the great Keshub Chunder Sen, is considered one of the most remarkable men India has ever produced, and my dear mother belonged to the best type of Hindu woman. Gentle, loving, and self-denying, her whole life was beautiful in its goodness and its simplicity.

The Soul or Mind of the True Model is the great essence of the invisible and the visible worlds. As to the nature of this One Soul, it is the same in all forms. To think it is different in different forms is only a false notion of the world. Once we penetrate beyond forms, it is discovered that all the different forms of the universe are not real differences of soul at an, but different manifestations of one real power, hence it has always been impossible to speak adequately, to name correctly, or to think correctly of this One Soul, the real essence of things, which is unchangeable and indestructible. We therefore name it the TRUE ESSENCE OR THE TRUE LIKENESS OR THE TRUE REALITY OR MODEL.

A novel that scandalized America because of its sexual frankness, and because of the unconventional behavior of its female protagonist, ‘The Awakening’ has enjoyed vast popularity in the 20th century. It was first published in the year 1899.

These two volumes, with their introductions and illustrative matter, to my mind present the most vivid picture of home life in medieval England that we have. Aside from their general human interest, they are valuable to the student of social history, and almost essential to an understanding of the literature of their time. The whole fabric of the romances was based upon the intricate system of “courtesy” as here set forth, and John Russell furnishes an interesting comment xiion Chaucer and his school, as do Rhodes and Seager and Weste on the writers of the sixteenth century. Finally, among these treatises, there is many a plum by the way for the seeker of proverbs, curious lore, superstitions, literary oddities. And as comparatively few people have time or inclination to worry through antiquated English, Dr. Furnivall has long wished that the substance of his collections might be presented in modern form. Therefore this little volume has been undertaken.

First published in the year 1909, the present novel ‘The Ball and the Cross’ by famous fiction writer G. K. Chesterton involves debates about rationalism and religion between a Professor Lucifer and a monk named Michael. Its title refers to a more worldly and rationalist worldview, represented by a ball or sphere, and the cross representing Christianity.

Emilie de Fontaine is a spoiled and pround brat. She rejects all suitors her father proposes. She will only marry a peer of France – or not at all! At a ball, she meets the handsome Maximilian. They fall in love. But one day, Emily discovers that Maximilian has a secret.

The present novel ‘The Bandbox’ was written by famous American novelist, short story writer and scholar Louis Joseph Vance. It was first published in the year 1912.

It is strange that not in any language has there been published a systematic treatise on Ethnic Psychology; strange, because the theme is in nowise a new one but has been the subject of many papers and discussions for a generation; indeed, had a journal dedicated to its service for a score of years; strange, also, because its students claim that it is the key to ethnology, the sure interpreter of history, and the only solid basis for constructive sociology.
Why this apparent failure to establish for itself a position in the temple of the Science of Man? This inquiry must be answered on the threshold of a treatise which undertakes to vindicate for this study an independent position and a permanent value.

When Bill was a baby—a round-faced, large-eyed, fat-legged baby, as unlike to the bronzed, whiskered, strapping seaman who went by the name of “Fighting Bill” as a jackdaw is to a marlinespike—when Bill was a baby, his father used to say he was just cut out for a sailor; and he was right, for the urchin was overflowing with vigour and muscular energy. He was utterly reckless, and very earnest—we might almost say desperately earnest. Whatever he undertook to do he did “with a will.” He spoke with a will, listened with a will, laughed, yelled, ate, slept, wrought, and fought with a will. In short, he was a splendid little fellow, and therefore, as his father wisely said, was just cut out for a sailor.

Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for the dew, felt its enamelled cup fill high with blood that day, and shrinking dropped.