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The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion was written in 1894. James Stalker begins with Jesus being taken prisoner and ends with his burial. Stalker refers to this book as a devotional history since it must be studied with the heart as well as the head. Stalker does an excellent job of putting the last days of Christ in historical perspective. This is an excellent history book for Christians or anyone else...

Mary Ann Evans who is better known by her pen name George Eliot was a leading British Victorian novelist. Eliot was known for her realism and keenness in developing psychological plots. Evans decided to write under a male pen name so that her work would be taken seriously. Through her writings the reader is given insight into the character of Eliot and her friends. Eliot covers such topics as: philosophy, national consciousness, self-deception...

Katherine Mansfield (1888-19230 was a New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction stories. Katherine moved to London where she attended Queen's College. She followed a bohemian lifestyle. After her brother's death in World War I her work took on a nostalgic theme. After a near-fatal attack of pleurisy she contracted TB. It was at this point that she began writing her best works. The Garden Party and Other Stories contains the following stori...

My Fair Lady has been a favorite movie for generations. The story of Eliza and Henry Higgins was first told in Shaw's book Pygmalion. George Bernard was born in Dublin in 1856. Before becoming a playwright he wrote music and literary criticism. Shaw used his writing to attack social problems such as education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. Shaw was particularly conscious of the exploitation of the working cl...

Sir Rider Haggard was a British Victorian writer known for his adventure novels set is exotic places. His writings are sympathetic to the natives. He often portrayed Africans as heroic in his stories even though the main characters are usually European. King Solomon's Mines is first book in the Allan Quartermain series. Alan Quartermain was the main character in the succeeding novel Marie. He also appears in several sequels. Quartermain was a ...

First published in 1883 Esoteric Buddhism is a practical clue to the meaning of almost all ancient religious symbolism. Sinnett says that the esoteric doctrine gives an absolute truth. He further states that the European mindset has so long been accustomed to questioning that is it impossible to deal with absolute truths. From the preface "The fact is, however, that esoteric Buddhism, though by no means divorced from the associations of exoter...

The Vampyre a Tale was the first vampire story written in English. John William Polidori (7 September 1795 - 24 August 1821) was an Italian physician and writer. After receiving his medical degree at age 19 he became the personnel physician to Lord Byron. He was one of the first authors to write about vampires. One evening a group of writers read a book of ghost stories aloud and they decided to try their hand at writing one. Mary Shelley bega...

Lessing's Nathan the Wise from written in 1779. The setting is Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades. The themes include, anti Semitism, wealth, love and duty, and the nature of God. This is an excellent study volume for college students

In 1867 Flora Steel married a member of the Indian civil service, and for the next twenty-two years lived in India, chiefly in the Punjab, with which most of her books are connected. She was interested in interacting with Indian women of all classes and used the birth of her daughter to meet these women. She encouraged the production of local handicrafts and collected folk-tales. Tales Of The Punjab was published in 1894. From the very beginni...

The Commonwealth of Oceana is the first and only volume written by Harrington. It was published in 1660. Harrington had a great influence on political thought in this era. His theories about the civil revolution in England are discussed in this volume. The revolt was the result of social change, which led to the failure of the political environment of the time.

Isaac Goldberg translated this 1921 collection of Brazilian Tales. Stories included are The Attendant's Confession by Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, The Fortune Teller by Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, Life by Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis, and The Vengeance of Felix by Joaquim Maria Machado De Assis. Also included are The Pigeons by Coelho Netto and Aunt Zeze's Tears by Carmen Dolores.

Cattle Brands is a collection of western camp-fire stories. Adams wrote extensively about cowmen and the cattle business. His stories have an authenticity of detail and style that sets them apart. This 1906 collection contains the following stories. A Winter Roundup, The Passing of Peg-leg, The Story of a Poker Steer, Seigerman's percent, Bad Medicine, A winter round-up. A college vagabond. The double trail. Rangering, At Comanche Ford , Aroun...

An immediate success upon its first publication in 1898, "Wild Animals I Have Known" gave the animal story new credibility and power as a literary genre and remains Seton's best-loved work. "From the Paperback edition.

Robert Herrick was a 17th century English poet. Herrick began as an apprentice to a jeweler before attending college. In 1627 he took his orders and became chaplain to the Duke of Buckingham. He then became a vicar in Devon where he lived for 31 years writing some of his best poetry. When the English Civil War broke out he lost his position, since he refused to pledge to the Solemn League and Covenant. He returned to London living off the char...

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

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