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A majestic and definitive biography--the first in forty years--of a modern icon, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: the German pastor-theologian and anti-Hitler conspirator who, in the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, has become the most widely read and influential Protestant thinker of our time.

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Winner, Christianity Today 2015 Book Award in History/BiographyShortlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyIn the decades since his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one of the most widely read and inspiring Christian thinkers of our time. With unprecedented archival access and definitive scope, Charles Marsh captures the life of thi...

Excerpt from A Gentleman Juror The fourteenth of February was not a holiday for the employés of Coldart Groolie, wholesale grocers and commission merchants of the City of Compos. The sun, after many days of wary approaches and slowly increasing fervor, once more dared to claim the northern world as his valentine, but his triumphant smile was unheeded by the dozen clerks who posted books, footed long columns of figures, sing-songed the checkin...

Excerpt from Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America: An Address Delivered Before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Nashville, August 30 According to present knowledge, no vertebrate life is known to have existed on this continent in the Archaean, Cambrian, or Silurian periods, yet during this time, more than half of the thickness of American stratified rocks was deposited. It by no means follows th...

Excerpt from Recollections: 1837 1910 So many memoirs, reminiscences and recollections, by authors of distinction, have been published during recent years that a person so little known as I am would naturally hesitate to appear in the same field. But such productions usually describe events, incidents or personages notable in court, camp or forum, and no one, so far as I know, has attempted to present the recollections and experiences of an o...

Excerpt from Opening the Oyster: A Story of Adventure And then? Well, I think I would invite my friend Ned Markham to make the tour of the world with me, so as to keep his mind occupied with strange scenes, and prevent his absurd crotchets from coming to the surface and making him a stum bling-block to his friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks....

Excerpt from The Clubs of London, Vol. 1 of 2: With Anecdotes of Their Members, Sketches of Character, and Conversations Once fetter it with the chains of a definition, - circumscribe its comforts, its enjoyments, its warm communion of heart, within the limits of any precise term, - and it is no longer a club. Yet how grossly has this word been abused! Jacobins, Feuillans, Whigs, and Pittites have successively usurped it, as if leagues and c...

Excerpt from The Clubs of London, Vol. 2 of 2: With Anecdotes of Their Members, Sketches of Character, and Conversations Who has not heard of the Sublime Society of the Beef-Steaks? Of this Club, British in heart, character, and humour, a true conservatory of our national good-nature and mirth, I never met with an authentic account. Some antiquarians have confounded its ancient history with the Beef-Steaks Club mentioned in the Spectator, fou...

Excerpt from An Appeal to the Public Spirit of Great Britain There are seasons, in which no apology can be demanded from the humblest writer, who discourses on the public affairs. His effort becomes dignified by its object. In times of real danger, when the whole zeal of the community is called for by a great and tremendous necessity, he is only discharging a debt, when he brings forward his share of contribution to the common deliberations, ...

Excerpt from Centennial Oration: Delivered Before the Citizens of Woodstock, Vt, , And Vicinity, on the Fourth of July, 1876 Mr. President, and Fellow Citizens: It needed not a resolution of Congress, nor the recommendation of the President of the nation, as a stimulant to the people of the United States to celebrate in a becoming manner, this, the centennial birth-day of American Independence. Never before, since the birth-day of the Republ...

The Beloved Community" lays out an exuberant new vision for progressive Christianity and reclaims the centrality of faith in the quest for social justice and authentic community.

Excerpt from Odontornithes: Monograph on the Extinct Toothed Birds of North America, With Thirty-Four Plates and Forty WoodcutsOf these is now nearly completed, and the results will soon be ready for publication.The material is abundant for a series of monographs on the marvel lous extinct vertebrates of this country, and the results already attained are full of promise for the future. A somewhat careful estimate makes the number of new specie...

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