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This volume brings together two 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, " and "Sweeney Among the Nightingales.

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.

Followers of the New Thought movement of the early 20th century vehemently believed in the concept of "mind over matter, " and one of the most influential thinkers of this early "New Age" philosophy promises here, in this 1906 book, to show you how to harness the extraordinary mental powers you already possess.

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.

The passionate confessions of a suffering soul, the brutal self-loathing of a tormented man, the scathing scorn of an alienated antihero who has become one of the greatest figures in all literature. Notes from Underground, published in 1864, introduces the moral, political, and social ideas Dostoevsky later explores in such masterpieces as Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov.

The first-rate collection includes "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, " "Bobok, " "The Christmas Tree and the Wedding, " and five other short masterpieces.

This book contains a series of entertaining and true stories about the intelligence and instincts of animals. Included are stories about horses, beavers, ants, elephants, sheep and goats, cats, lions and tigers, swallows, pigeons, salmon, baboons, and monkeys. The narrator also tells stories of one species of animal caring for helpless members of an entirely different species.

In this novel of the further adventures of David Balfour, our hero continues his friendship with Alan Breck Stewart, supports the cause of the Scottish highlanders, travels abroad to complete his education, and finds romance.

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...

Adam Smith has rightly been called the father of free-market economics. The great statesman Edmund Burke said that The Wealth of Nations may have been the most important book ever written. The philosopher David Hume was also lavish in his praise for the work. Modern economist Todd G. Buchholz has added this assessment: "But is it a good book? Not only is it a good book, it is a great one. With the hubris that goaded Gods into striking down Gre...

The classic inspirational masterpiece. Life is full of distractions. By learn to focus on what matters most, we will find the success we seek.

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...

This book is a must-have for all students of American history and its political system. The first volume of this exceptional set was originally published in 1835,  with the second volume being published in 1840,  and it has remained in print ever since. President Woodrow Wilson wrote that Tocqueville's work was "possibly without rival." Lord Bryce wrote with high praise of "the elegance and refinement of Tocqueville's reasoning." And historian...

The wisdom, poetic outlook, and deep humanity for which Gibran's best-known work, The Prophet, is famous are also amply present in The Forerunner, published just three years earlier. Heartfelt and compassionate, it is a memorable, internationally acclaimed collection of 24 morality tales dealing with universal human concerns.

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!