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A fantasy novel for adults, Lilith is the story of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him. Encountering one mystery after another, he explores the mystery of humanity's fall from grace--and of their redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the reader senses that MacDonald writes from his ow...

This volume brings together three of T. S. Eliot's powerful collections into one. It includes such classic poems as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " "Portrait of a Lady, " "Preludes, " "Gerontion, " "Sweeney Among the Nightingales, " and "The Waste Land.

Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction Between Mind and Body Are Demonstrated, is one of the foundational works in philosophy. In fact, he is widely regarded as the Father of Modern Philosophy, with this work and others, he influenced much of what followed in Western thought. This edition contains the time-honored translation by Elizabeth S. Haldane.

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was one of the most influential works read by America's Founding Fathers. As Thomas P. Peardon wrote, "John Locke [was] . . . a main source of the ideas of the American Revolution of 1776. . . . So close is the Declaration of Independence to Locke in form, phraseology, and content, that Jefferson was accused of copying the Second Treatise. This, of course, he did not do. But the ideas of the Declarati...

A powerful collection of writings by Theodore Roosevelt, giving his vision of how both personal and national life can be lived to the best advantage. He writes, "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife, to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger,...

Young Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, pieces of eight, and bottles of rum are all immortalized in this classic adventure on the seven seas. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format.

Ezra Pound has been called a "poetic visionary" and the "catalyst of the American modernist movement." All of his work collected runs well over 1, 000 pages. Here is a new collection of the best of the best of the poetic work of the young Pound, filled with creative energy, verbal virtuosity, and clear-sighted vision. His continuing goal was to "make it new, " and so he did. This volume includes some of Pound's most powerful and most memorable...

Two volumes in one. In 1897 Bram Stoker wrote a classic horror story that has spawned hundreds of imitators but has never been surpassed. From Anne Rice's Interview with a Vampire to such writers as Stephenie Meyer, the story of the vampire--and the godfather of them all, Dracula--lives on. Compelling, chilling, engrossing, filled with suspense and fear--this is a tale you can't put down. This edition includes an interview with Bram Stoker, as...

The Gambler paints a stark picture of the attractions--and addictions--of gambling. Using skillful characterization, Dostoevsky faithfully depicts life among the gambling set in old Germany. This probing psychological novel explores the tangled love affairs and complicated lives of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young gambler, and Polina Alexandrovna, the woman he loves.

This volume brings together four of T. S. Eliot's powerful collections into one. It includes such classic poems as "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " "Portrait of a Lady, " "Preludes, " "Gerontion, " "Sweeney Among the Nightingales, " and "The Waste Land." It also includes poems that haven't been previously collected and a short story Eliot wrote, "Eeldrop and Appleplex.

The adventures of the infant Peter Pan in London's Kensington Gardens--one of Barrie's most enchanting works.

Published eight years after George Washington's death, David Ramsay's Life of George Washington achieved great popularity. A contemporary of Washington, historian Ramsay writes with the knowledge and insights one acquires only by being on the scene. George Washington was elected commander-in-chief of the Continental Army by the Second Continental Congress in May 1775. For the next six years, he led his poorly supplied and ill-trained troops in...

Written by the father of modern philosophy, Discourse on Method is a seminal work that outlines Descartes' method of intellectual inquiry. He explores the moral implications of the method, the reasonings by which he deduces that God exists and that man has a soul, and the implications of his philosophy on science. Discourse on Method includes Descartes' most famous and quotable statement: "I think, therefore, I am." This book is must reading f...

The Bible is not an infallible Book, in the sense in which it is popularly supposed to be infallible. When we study the history of the several books, (the history of the canon, the history of the distribution and reproduction of the manuscript copies, and the history of the versions, when we discover that the 'various readings' of the differing manuscripts amount to one hundred and fifty thousand, the impossibility of maintaining the verbal in...

First published in 1853, 12 Years a Slave is the riveting true story of a free black American who was sold into slavery, remaining there for a dozen years until he finally escaped. This powerfully written memoir details the horrors of slave markets, the inhumanity practiced on southern plantations, and the nobility of a man who persevered in some of the worst of conditions, a man who never ceased to hope that he would find freedom and see his ...

The Federalist Papers contain some of the greatest political writing of all time. Written to New Yorkers in 1787 and 1788 to urge the ratification of the proposed new Constitution, the papers received immediate respect. They were published in book form in 1788 and had considerable influence in both the New York and Virginia ratifying conventions, serving as a source of philosophies and arguments in both those crucial states. The papers were or...

This complete edition includes Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the chapter on Peter Pan from Barrie's The White Bird, and, finally, the classic Adventures of Peter Pan. Enjoy the complete adventure!

In this short novel, Francis Bacon tells of the discovery of a utopian community to the west of the Americas. The inhabitants live a happy life based on the validity of the scientific method. This book will have special interest to those fascinated by mystical history, cryptography, and the philosophies of the Rosicrucians and other such secret societies.

The story of Frank Cowperwood, a powerful, irresistibly compelling man driven by his own need for power, beautiful women, and social prestige.

Controversial upon its publication in 1890, The Kreutzer Sonata illuminates Tolstoy's then-feverish Christian ideals, his conflicts with lust and the hypocrisies of nineteenth-century marriage, and his thinking on the role of art and music in society. The Kreutzer Sonata is essentially a discussion in which the character Pozdnyshev tells of his disasterous marriage. A cautionary tale, it is a declamation against immorality and sexual indulgence.