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Owen offers not quick relief, but long-term, deep growth in grace that can make strong, healthy trees from fragile saplings." - John Piper. "We cannot properly estimate the blessing of soaking our minds in the Bible-saturated thinking of the likes of John Owen. What he was able to see in the Bible and preserve for us in writing is simply magnificent." - John Piper. Communion with God, or in full, Communion with God: Of Communion with God the...

A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of communism." -- Marx & Engels The Manifesto of the Communist Party, one of the most important political documents in the history of the world, begins with the prophetic words "A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of communism." This brief book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand modern European history.

I want to write something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple and intricately patterned." F. Scott Fitzgerald (1923)."The first step American fiction has taken since Henry James." T. S. Eliot."I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool." F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby."I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety ...

Owen offers not quick relief, but long-term, deep growth in grace that can make strong, healthy trees from fragile saplings." - John Piper. "We cannot properly estimate the blessing of soaking our minds in the Bible-saturated thinking of the likes of John Owen. What he was able to see in the Bible and preserve for us in writing is simply magnificent." - John Piper. Communion with God, or in full, Communion with God: Of Communion with God the...

These wonderful children's adventure stories are now American classics. The fun adventures and intriguing mysteries of the Bobbsey Twins can be found in a series of 72 children's novels. They were written under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope between 1904 and 1979, with a separate series of 30 books published from 1987 through 1992. The stories tell of the adventures of two sets of fraternal twins: Bert and Nan, who were 12 years old, and Flossie...

Alexander von Humboldt, sometimes called 'the last man who knew everything', was an extraordinary polymath of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1798 he received unprecedented permission from the Spanish Crown to explore its American and Caribbean colonies, which he did from 1799-1804. This is the journal of those explorations, in which he extensively covers the region's topography, geology, fauna and flora, anthropology and comparativ...

Melmoth the Wanderer is a dark Faustian tale in the gothic style. It is the story of a man who sells his soul to the devil for an extra 150 years of life, a pact he can get out of only if he persuades another soul to take his place. Melmoth travels to the depths of human misery and despair in the attempt to find someone desperate enough to make such a devilish bargain. This work was a huge hit in the nineteenth century and highly innovative fo...

Allan Quatermain first appears in the novel King Solomon's Mines as one of the greatest hunters of all time - a brilliant marksman and skilled in survival. He is the son of a missionary and grew up in South Africa, going on to discover the continent's hidden secrets. His appeal has not diminished over the years and he has reappeared in many films including in 2003 heading up "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" . The novels in this omnibu...

the stateliest measure ever moulded by the lips of man' - Alfred, Lord Tennyson "the classic of all Europe" - T. S. Eliot "I can't think of another book that has invaded me more thoroughly ... Virgil's Aeneid travels with me through life. It is a wonderful tool to think and feel with. It even has something of the uncanny about it." - Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian The Aeneid, modelled on The Odyssey and The Iliad, is the foundational my...

A uniquely engaging, informative and inspirational account of John Wesley's life. "A man whose eloquence and logical acuteness might have made him eminent in literature, whose genius for government was not inferior to that of Richelieu, and who devoted all his powers in defiance to what he sincerely considered as the highest good of his species." -- Macaulay "The greatest force of the eighteenth century in England ... No single figure influe...

A uniquely engaging, informative and inspirational account of John Wesley's life. "A man whose eloquence and logical acuteness might have made him eminent in literature, whose genius for government was not inferior to that of Richelieu, and who devoted all his powers in defiance to what he sincerely considered as the highest good of his species." -- Macaulay "The greatest force of the eighteenth century in England ... No single figure influe...

Barrie wrote his fantasy of childhood, added another figure to our enduring literature, and thereby undoubtedly made one of the boldest bids for immortality of any writer. . . It is a masterpiece." -J. B. Priestley."Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." ¿ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan."The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do i...

Barrie wrote his fantasy of childhood, added another figure to our enduring literature, and thereby undoubtedly made one of the boldest bids for immortality of any writer. . . It is a masterpiece." -J. B. Priestley."Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." ¿ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan."The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do i...

Barrie wrote his fantasy of childhood, added another figure to our enduring literature, and thereby undoubtedly made one of the boldest bids for immortality of any writer. . . It is a masterpiece." -J. B. Priestley. "Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." ¿ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan. "The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to ...

The Palliser Novels make up Trollope's second major series, which overlap with the first major series - the Barsetshire novels. These stories are concerned with politics, featuring the wealthy, industrious Plantagenet Palliser and his wonderfully impulsive and even richer wife Lady Glencora. These books bear all the hallmarks of Trollope's later works, blending dark cynicism with wit and a sharp awareness of human nature. The complete Pallise...

A beautiful, lavishly illustrated hardcover edition with colour images on almost every double spread. J. M. Barrie added a new character to the mythology of the English-speaking world - Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens dishes up a potent local myth, one that even now endows that park with magic."-Michael Newton, The Guardian. This very generously illustrated edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens...

He is strikingly original, and in the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time hasalmost invented a form of his own." - Edmund Wilson."The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's first and best novel." - Robert McCrum, The Guardian."The delightful entertainment of The Torrents of Spring... is full-blooded comedy, with a sting of satire." - The New York Times."Hemingway remodelled American short fiction." - Michael Reynolds (Hemingway biographer) E...

A beautiful, lavishly illustrated edition with colour images on almost every double spread. J. M. Barrie added a new character to the mythology of the English-speaking world - Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up. "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens dishes up a potent local myth, one that even now endows that park with magic."-Michael Newton, The Guardian. This very generously illustrated edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardenshas 53 lar...

He is strikingly original, and in the dry compressed little vignettes of In Our Time hasalmost invented a form of his own." - Edmund Wilson."The Sun Also Rises is Hemingway's first and best novel." - Robert McCrum, The Guardian."The delightful entertainment of The Torrents of Spring... is full-blooded comedy, with a sting of satire." - The New York Times."Hemingway remodelled American short fiction." - Michael Reynolds (Hemingway biographer) E...

Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India is a lyrical account of Anita Mathias's turbulent Roman Catholic childhood in India.Mathias grew up in Jamshedpur, North India, "The Steel City, " a company town benevolently run by the Zoroastrians of Tata Steel. The Catholic church, run by American Jesuits, provided an all-encompassing world. In a pre-TV world, visiting friends was entertainment, juicy gossip flowed with homemade wine...