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The Home and the World is a classic volume by Rabindranath Tagore tells the story of Bimala and her husband Nikhil and a political activist named Sandip. The story is told from the perspectives of these three people and foretells foreshadows the separation of India and Pakistan in 1947.The novel is set in early 20th century India. The story line coincides with the National Independence Movement taking place in the country at the time, which wa...

The Head of Kay's is a classic English humour text is one of P.G. Wodehouse's early novels set in English public schools. The story is about two prefects struggling to keep order in a refractory house, despite the actions of its interfering housemaster.Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (15 October 1881 - 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a Bri...

Twentieth Century Socialism is a classic political science text by Edmond Kelly. No one whose intellectual parts are in working order believes that the industrial world will go back to an unorganized individualistic production and distribution of wealth. No one whose moral sense is awake desires to see the chief means of production owned and controlled by a small number of monstrously wealthy men, however great their ability or good their inte...

Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is the mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. Every saint has climbed it, every sinner must sooner or later come to it, and every weary pilgrim that turns his back upon self and the world, and sets his face resolutely toward the Father's Home, must plant his feet upon its golden rounds. Without its aid you cannot grow into the divine state, ...

The Winning of Canada: A Chronicle of Wolf is a Canadian history text by William Wood. General Wolfe was a soldier born. Many of his ancestors had stood ready to fight for king and country at a moment's notice. His father fought under the great Duke of Marlborough in the war against France at the beginning of the eighteenth century. His grandfather, his great-grandfather, his only uncle, and his only brother were soldiers too.

The Coming of Bill is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was first published as Their Mutual Child in the United States on 5 August 1919 by Boni & Liveright, New York, and as The Coming of Bill in the United Kingdom on 1 July 1920 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd, London. The story first appeared in Munsey's Magazine in May 1914 under the title The White Hope. The novel tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his wife Ruth, and their young son, Bill. Bill's upbri...

The Critics Versus Shakespeare is a classic literary criticism volume by Francis A. Smith that deals with the works of the great bard of Avon. Ben Jonson said that Shakspere "wanted art", the highest appellate court decided that "Lear" was a greater work than Euripides or Sophocles ever produced. Voltaire, the presiding Justice in the court of French criticism, decided that Shakspere was "votre bizarre sauvage, " the world has reversed his dec...

Nero (15 December 37 - 9 June 68 AD) was the last Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius and became Claudius' heir and successor. Like Claudius, Nero became emperor with the consent of the Praetorian Guard. Nero's mother, Agrippina the Younger, was likely implicated in Claudius' death and Nero's nomination as emperor. She dominated Nero's early life and decisions until he cast her off. Five year...

This classic collection of Charles Dickens stories contains the writings, PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE--ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG II. FULL REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE and others.

Mary Queen of Scots is a classic Scottish royalty biography by Jacob Abbott. Travelers who go into Scotland take a great interest in visiting, among other places, a certain room in the ruins of an old palace, where Queen Mary was born. Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy. Every body takes a strong interest in her story, and this interest attaches, in some degree, to the room where her sad and sorrowful life ...

Mary Queen of Scots is a classic Scottish royalty biography by Jacob Abbott. Travelers who go into Scotland take a great interest in visiting, among other places, a certain room in the ruins of an old palace, where Queen Mary was born. Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy. Every body takes a strong interest in her story, and this interest attaches, in some degree, to the room where her sad and sorrowful life ...

Meno is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato (Steph. 70-100). It appears to attempt to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning virtue in general, rather than particular virtues, such as justice or temperance. The first part of the work is written in the Socratic dialectical style and Meno is reduced to confusion or aporia. In response to Meno's paradox (or the learner's paradox), however, Socrates introduces positive ideas: the i...

May-Day is a classic collection of American nature poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson that includes the following titles: May-day -- The Adirondacs -- Occasional and miscellaneous pieces: Brahma. Nemesis. Fate. Freedom. Ode sung in the Town hall, Concord, July 4, 1857. Boston hymn. Voluntaries. Love and thought. I greet with joy the choral trainsFresh from palms and Cuba's canes.Best gems of Nature's cabinet, With dews of tropic morning wet, Belove...

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On July 11, 1767, in the North Parish of Braintree, since set off as the town of Quincy, in Massachusetts, was born John Quincy Adams. Two streams of as good blood as flowed in the colony mingled in the veins of the infant. If heredity counts for anything he began life with an excellent chance of becoming famous--non sine den animosus infans. He was called after his great-grandfather on the mother's side, John Quincy, a man of local note who h...

This book has grown out of an attempt to harmonize two different tendencies, one in psychology, the other in physics, with both of which I find myself in sympathy, although at first sight they might seem inconsistent. On the one hand, many psychologists, especially those of the behaviourist school, tend to adopt what is essentially a materialistic position, as a matter of method if not of metaphysics. They make psychology increasingly dependen...

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on ...

Considerations of a Representative Governmentis a classic political science essay by John Stuart Mill. Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous political essays will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume, for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is no...

The Theaetetus is one of Plato's dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge, written circa 369 BCE. In this dialogue, Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions of knowledge: knowledge as nothing but perception, knowledge as true judgment, and, finally, knowledge as a true judgment with an account. Each of these definitions is shown to be unsatisfactory.Socrates declares Theaetetus will have benefited from discovering what he does not...

This Henry David Thoreau volume is a compilation of two classic Thoreau titles, "Walking" and "Wild Apples." Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is based on a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. Wild Apples, another nature classic is subtitled, "The History of the Apple Tree" Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at t...