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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was a worldrenowned Irish author. Born in Dublin, he moved to London when he turned twenty. Having rejected formal schooling, he educated himself by independent study in the reading room of the British Museum, he also began his career there by writing novels for which he could not find a publisher. His first success was as a music and literary critic, but he was drawn to drama and authored more than sixty plays ...

The Ion is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated by any early external testimony. The grace and beauty of this little work supply the only, and perhaps a sufficient, proof of its genuineness. The plan is simple, the dramatic interest consists entirely in the contrast between the irony of Socrates and the transparent vanity and childlike enthusiasm of the rhapsode Ion. T...

In a German Pension" is a book of 13 outstanding short stories written by Katherine Mansfield after she visited Germany as a young woman.

Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956) was a British caricaturist and parodist. As a young man he was considered quite the wit and spent much time in London society. By 35 he was considered to be middle aged and a bit dull. Beerbohm was drama critic for the Saturday review and later broadcast radio work. The Works of Max Beerbohm was published in 1896. Besides a detailed Bibliography by John Lane, this book contains, Dandies and Dandies, A Good Prince, 18...

The Underdogs was originally published in serial form in El Paso del Norte in 1915. The story takes place during the Mexican Revolution. Demetrio Macías is the leader of a group fighting against the federal forces. Victoriano Huerta is an accomplished marksman who fights to change his country, but by the end of the novel he is not sure why he keeps on fighting. He sees his actions as having made little difference.

...In the decade from 1870 to 1880 a new spirit was stirring in the intellectual and literary world of Denmark. George Brandes was delivering his lectures on the Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature , from Norway came the deeply probing questionings of the granitic Ibsen, from across the North Sea from England echoes of the evolutionary theory and Darwinism. It was a time of controversy and bitterness, of a conflict joined between th...

...It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of much value is that of Aristotle, for the Alexandrian catalogues of a century later include manifest forgeries. Even the value of the Aristotelian authority is a good deal impaired by the uncertainty concerning the date and authorship of the writings which are ascribed to him. And several of the ci...

Pedro Calderón de la Barca was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age, which occurred in the 1600's. Calderon was educated in a Jesuit college with plans to become a priest, but instead he studied law. Over two decades he wrote 70 secular plays for the commercial theatre. Life is a Dream is a three act play considered to be the best work by Calderon. It has been translated into English more than a dozen times in recent times. A polish prince is...

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Edgar Allen Poe was born in 1809. Poe was a poet, author, and literary critic. He is one of the leading authors of the Romantic period. His tales of the macabre have delighted and scared readers. He is considered the founder of the detective/fiction genre and contributed to the popularity of science fiction. In The Fall of the House of Usher a visitor realizes that there is a terrible malady within the house. When the narrator arrives at his f...

This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book. I have received a large amount of correspondence concerning this small work, and many reviews of it--some of them nearly as long as the book itself--have been printed. But scarcely any of the comment has been adverse. Some people have objected to a frivolity of tone, but as the tone is not, in my opinion, at all frivolous, this objection ...

This paper claims to be scarcely more than a brief sketch. It is an abridgment of a History of Liberia in much greater detail, presented as a dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University. I have devoted the leisure hours of several years to the accumulation of materials, which I hope will prove the basis of a larger work in the future

THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills resting.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin who is better known by his stage name Moliare was a 17th century French author known for his comedy. After abandoning a law career Moliare began acting, directing and writing plays in Paris and the surrounding area. The scathing satire in his plays made several important him enemies. Shakespeare gave his characters complexity while Moliare used simplicity to produce his memorable characters. Orgon thinks that Tartuffe is...

In 1912 when Antonia Isola published Simple Italian Cookery Italian food was virtually unknown in the United States. Many people thought the Italian diet consisted only of garlic and oil. This book was written to give Americans a glimpse into a new style of cooking. The book contains recipes for soups, meats, vegetables, desserts and of course pasta.

If I Can't Have You, No One Else Can is written in memory of all who have lost their lives to domestic violence and abuse. Your loved one may be gone, but will never be forgotten. That someone, your loved one, is in a better place, sitting and watching us from the beautiful Stairways of Heaven.

This book is written by a Scandinavian author that knows all the secrets of the Scandinavian cooking. The book contains all the receipts the Scandinavian use in their cooking. This includes a variety of delicious starters, dinners, desserts, cakes, breads and drinks. The book also contains special receipts for different seasons. This is for example receipts of fresh berries in summer. At the end of the book there is also included receipts for ...

Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting.. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous dimensions, many worlds invisible to each other, yet accessible through doors on Hasyih, one of the keys to which is the Lyre. Now danger threatens both Hasyih and Ranuit, the only inhabited worlds in the group, and when a young girl takes the Lyre from the willow tre...

The leader of the prison reform movement, Elizabeth Fry was a spiritually grounded woman. She spoke in worship, helped the needy and was a champion for women and children in prison. Read her remarkable story. Includes questions for eight lessons for group or individual study.

BOOK 5 OF KELLY CHANCE SERIES CONTINUES WITH A NEW MISSION IN THE DESERT OF AFGHANISTAN. KELLY CHANCE GOES FROM TUXEDO TO BEARD AND CAFTAN AS A FREELANCE ARMS DEALER AND SECRET AGENT NAMED, 'LA SOMBRE'---THE SHADOW. HE HAS A DESERT WAR TO SETTLE AND LOTS OF NEW ENEMIES. MAJOR BUCKS IS BANKROLLING TERRORISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST. OTHER NEMISES INCLUDE THE BLOND BOMBER, HUMMER-PART MAN-ART MACHINE, HARRY LEGGS-THE GIANT KILLER, RACHET-THE ROBOTIC S...