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(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1876. Contents: Part I. The Idea of God-Its Genesis and Development, Part II. Theism and Scientific Speculation, Part III. The Belief in Immortality, Part IV. The Place of the Indo-European and Semitic Races in History. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1879. Prolific English writer of novels dealing with Victorian life. Cousin Henry is perhaps the most unusual and intriguing of Trollope's shorter novels. Trollope's masterly handling of the novel's unlikely hero, a tiresome and timid coward, is notable for its insight and compassion. The story begins: I have a conscience, my dear, on this matter, said an old gentleman to a young lady, as the two were sitting in the break...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1883. Here is a fine collection of stories from the prolific English writer of novels dealing with Victorian life. Contents: Lady Dugdale, Aaron Trow, The O'Conors of Castle Conor, Relics of General Chasse, The Chateau of Prince Polignac, and George Walker at Suez. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1885. A treatise by the noted archaeologist on Assyria. Contents: The Country and People, Assyrian History, Assyrian Religion, Art, Literature, and Science, and Manners and Customs, Trade and Government. A fascinating account of Assyrian History. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1879. Prolific English writer of novels dealing with Victorian life. An Eye for an Eye is a tragic, gothic romance about the struggle of the upper class Protestant Englishman, Fred Neville, who inherits a high position unexpectedly. He meets and falls in love with Kate O'Hara. They have a love affair, she becomes pregnant and he promises her and her mother that he will marry her. But, he is conflicted by the responsibilit...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1852. Adin Ballou, founder of the utopian community at Hopedale, Massachusetts and a leading 19th century exponent of pacifism, was during his long career a Universalist, a Restorationist, a Practical Christian, and a Unitarian minister. A tireless reformer, he sought to bring his Christian and socialist vision of society into practice. This book contains a collection of authentic statements concerning phenomenal demonstr...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1851. After spending his early years as an actor, Munday turned to writing. His literary output includes a number of plays (John a Kent and John a Cumber, two on the legend of Robin Hood, The Downfall and Death of Robert and Earl of Huntington), poems, pageants, several anti-Catholic pamphlets, and translations of popular French romances (including Amadis de Gaul). John a Kent and John a Cumber is considered to have paral...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1862. An English traveler, geographer and author, Markham published 50 volumes of biography and ethnohistory and translated many accounts of Spanish explorations. He translated this volume from an original and unedited manuscript in the National Library at Madrid.

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1852. An account of England's first attempt at colonization in the French town of Calais. Partial Contents: The capture and occupation of Calais, Calais transformed into an English Borough, Richard Turpyn, The Chronicler of Calais, Review of the English occupation of Calais, and Memoir of Lady Hamilton.

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1884. Emerson was a founder of the Transcendental movement and the founder of a distinctly American philosophy emphasizing optimism, individuality, and mysticism, he was one of the most influential literary figures of the nineteenth century. Lectures And Biographical Sketches were published posthumously. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1732. This book contains the work of the freethinker John Toland. Toland moved in both subversive and elite political circles in England and abroad. Toland counted queens, princes and government ministers as his friends and political associates. In particular his intimate relationship with the Electress Sophia of Hanover saw him act as a court philosopher, but also as a powerful publicist for the Hanoverian succession. To...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1870. The author attempts to reproduce the whole plot, and all the most prominent characters in The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, and the most suitable stories from The Canterbury Tales, Froissart and the Morte d'Arthur in a form that would be appreciable to the young people of the time. Contents: Palamon and Arcite, The Patient Griselda, The Enchanted Isle, Shylock's Revenge, Death of Sir John Chandos, Eustace de St. ...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1879. A translation of the Arabic text of The Athar-Ul-Bakiya of Albiruni, which contains all of the technical and historical details of the various systems for the computation of time, invented and used by the Persians, Sogdians, Chorasmians, Jews, Syrians, Harranians, and Arabs, together with Greek traditions, it offers an equal interest to all those who study the antiquity and history of the Zoroastrian and Jewish, Chr...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1856. Contents: The Hebrew Commonwealth, Closing Scenes of the Jewish War of Independence, The Dispersed of Israel, Political and Religious State of the Jews after the Destruction of Jerusalem, Internal History of the Synagogue, from the return of the Captives to the Destruction of Jerusalem, History of the Synagogue, from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Jewish War of Liberation, The last Jewish War under Bar Cochab, ...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1873. Two Volumes in One. Edwards enjoyed three separate careers: as a journalist, a novelist, and an Egyptologist. She was also an active supporter of the suffrage movement, serving at one time as Vice President of the Society for Promoting Women's Suffrage. Amelia Edwards never married, but lived and traveled for much of her life with a female companion. Though she was a popular novelist, today you are most likely to co...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1874. Prolific English writer of novels dealing with Victorian life. Trollope also worked and traveled extensively for the Post Office, undertaking important postal missions at various times to Egypt, the West Indies and the United States. In addition to his novels Trollope wrote a number of travel books. Contents: Gangoil, A Night's Ride, Medlicot's Mill, Harry Heathcote's Appeal, Boscobel, The Brownbies of Boolabong, I ...

(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1737. This is Volume 3 of 4. Robert Boyle instituted this series of lectures with the intention of providing a forum for prominent academics to confute atheism. The lectures were inaugurated in 1692 by Richard Bentley, a renowned scholar who corresponded with Newton during their preparation. These lectures were written to give evidence of the existence of God to philosophers and scientists as well as lay people, and as su...

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