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Utopia, by Thomas More - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After his earlier education at St. Anthony's School, in Threadneedle Street, he was placed, as a boy, in the household of Cardinal John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor. It was not unusual for persons of wealth or influence and sons of...

The Great Boer War is Arthur Conan Doyle's authentic and thorough account of the conflict which gripped turn-of-the-century Britain. When the Boer War broke out in South Africa in 1899, Conan Doyle was already a hugely successful, middle-aged writer. Nevertheless, he was determined to see the war at first hand. Unable to secure a place as a regular soldier, he fell back on his medical training and was accepted by the British army as a doctor i...

Did you know that the creator of Sherlock Holmes also wrote first-class historical fiction? Sir Nigel is a medieval coming-of-age story bursting with adventure and romance. It is 1348, at the start of what would become the Hundred Years War. The Lorings, a family with a noble history, have endured a number of setbacks in recent years, and the young Nigel Loring is eager to prove himself in service to King Edward III. The King makes him squire ...

The sinking of the Titanic has captured the imagination of the public like no other tragedy of the modern age. Lawrence Beesley's eyewitness account of the disastrous voyage stands as one of the most carefully written and authoritative books on the subject, despite the fact that it was published only months after the event. Beesley was uniquely qualified to write this book, having himself been a second class passenger aboard the SS Titanic. He...

From the pen of P.G Wodehouse comes a collection of side-splitting tales of life, love... and golf. If you are ever in the clubhouse and in need of a diversion, the Oldest Member has a few anecdotes to tell. From the title story of Cuthbert, who despairs of his love ever sharing his interest in the links, to the invigorating power of the noble game in the life of the faint-hearted George Mackintosh, to the tribulations of Mortimer Sturgis whos...

From the pen of Louisa May Alcott comes a tale of one girl's transformation in nineteenth-century Boston. Rose Campbell may be an orphan, but she has no shortage of family. There are six aunts, seven cousins, and an uncle - Uncle Alex, who has strange notions about the proper way to raise children. After years of boarding school and being ladylike, Rose finds that playing with rowdy boys, getting fresh air, and eating good food have a surprisi...

Aesop's Fables is one of the world's most enduring books of wisdom, filled with witty stories that even the smallest child can enjoy and understand. Most involve animals who somehow manage to seem altogether human in their actions and motivations, and each is punctuated by an incisive moral at the end. From the Fox and the Grapes, to the Tortoise and the Hare and the Boy who Cried Wolf, these tales play a central part in our cultural heritage....

One of India's most famous writers offers an articulate and accessible introduction to Indian spirituality. This collection of essays by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore is based on a lecture series he presented at Harvard University. Oriented towards a Western readership, the essays examine different aspects of Indian culture and philosophy. They address as their central concerns the relationship between humanity and the divine, the ultimat...

Tales from the White Mountains is a collection of four of Nathaniel Hawthorne's evocative short stories, all set in the eponymous mountains of New Hampshire which captured his imagination. "The Great Stone Face" is the story of a gentle man who longs for the fulfillment of a prophecy, "The Ambitious Guest" relates the last night of a loving family in a cabin high above a valley, "The Great Carbuncle" is a morality tale inspired by a Native Ame...

My Lady Ludlow is Elizabeth Gaskell's charming tale of the conflict between progress and tradition, set in the England of 1800. Lady Ludlow is a kind, generous, and responsible member of the English aristocracy. She is also a trenchant traditionalist, virulently opposed to any move that would bring change to the social order. In the little village of Hanbury over which she presides, she finds herself increasingly opposed by those who have diff...

A Boy's Will is Robert Frost's first collection of poetry, initially published in 1913. The thirty-two poems contained within touch on the themes for which Frost would become famous: rural New England life, the spiritual in nature, and the human condition. More ethereal than his later poetry, it nevertheless is imbued with the clarity and precision which makes Frost so unforgettable. A Boy's Will brought Frost critical acclaim and public atten...

North of Boston was the book that cemented Robert Frost's reputation as a leading American poet. First published in 1914, the poetry collection contains some of his most memorable works: the symbolic "Mending Wall, " the elegiac "Death of a Hired Man, " and the evocative "After Apple-Picking." Frost's medium is the plain speech of rural New England, beautifully worked into meter and rhyme. He subtly touches on themes of mortality, suffering, n...

Vedanta means 'the end of the Veda.' It is also the name for India's most profound system of philosophy. In this book, based on a lecture given in 1901, Swami Abhedananda concisely and vividly expounds a vision of human and cosmic existence rooted in this philosophy. While he argues vigorously for the reality of reincarnation, which forms the keystone of his thinking, he also explores human nature and Divine nature, reincarnation in other reli...

One of India's most famous writers offers an articulate and accessible introduction to Indian spirituality. This collection of essays by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore is based on a lecture series he presented at Harvard University. Oriented towards a Western readership, the essays examine different aspects of Indian culture and philosophy. They address as their central concerns the relationship between humanity and the divine, the ultimat...

The Conquest of Fear is a very personal work by an author who had first-hand knowledge of the subject matter. From a very early age Basil King suffered from poor health and eyesight, and had to live with the very real possibility that he would go completely blind and die young. These debilitating fears plagued him throughout his childhood, and would return to haunt him in adulthood at crucial moments. As King sought a reprieve from his sufferi...

North of Boston was the book that cemented Robert Frost's reputation as a leading American poet. First published in 1914, the poetry collection contains some of his most memorable works: the symbolic "Mending Wall, " the elegiac "Death of a Hired Man, " and the evocative "After Apple-Picking." Frost's medium is the plain speech of rural New England, beautifully worked into meter and rhyme. He subtly touches on themes of mortality, suffering, n...

In a time when children's books were populated with well-behaved little gentlemen, Thomas Bailey Aldrich dared to present an alternative point of view - childhood as he remembered it. Tom Bailey is no angel. At times a bully, a vandal, and a troublemaker, he has a healthy zest for life and a perhaps over-developed love of mischief. The book follows Tom as he engages in a series of adventures which take him from his New Hampshire hometown to Ne...

From the pen of Louisa May Alcott comes a tale of one girl's transformation in nineteenth-century Boston. Rose Campbell may be an orphan, but she has no shortage of family. There are six aunts, seven cousins, and an uncle - Uncle Alex, who has strange notions about the proper way to raise children. After years of boarding school and being ladylike, Rose finds that playing with rowdy boys, getting fresh air, and eating good food have a surprisi...

Aesop's Fables is one of the world's most enduring books of wisdom, filled with witty stories that even the smallest child can enjoy and understand. Most involve animals who somehow manage to seem altogether human in their actions and motivations, and each is punctuated by an incisive moral at the end. From the Fox and the Grapes, to the Tortoise and the Hare and the Boy who Cried Wolf, these tales play a central part in our cultural heritage....

Here is a collection of gripping cowboy stories - written by a real-life cowboy. From the touching and elegiac "Around the Spade Wagon, " a tale of two friends reminiscing over a campfire, to the thrilling kidnap by bandits of "The Ransom of Don Ramon Mora, " to the slice-of-life account of a wolf hunt in "A Winter Round-up, " the tales of Cattle Brands are steeped in the sights, smells and sounds of the old West. Adams knew his subject well, ...