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Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Monthly sales substantially exceeded his previous bestseller David Copperfield.Dickens' mastery of the English language comes to the fo...

The Trilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the following novels: THE OCTOPUS,, a Story of California.THE PIT, a Story of Chicago.THE WOLF, a Story of Europe.These novels, while forming a series, ...

Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal both to old and young; to the young because it is the natural world in which their fancy delights to range, and to the old because they are con...

The golden section is a line segment sectioned into two according to the golden ratio. The total length a+b is to the longer segment a as a is to the shorter segment b. In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio between the sum of those qu...

In this biography for young adults, Mary A. Hamilton gives a British person’s perspective on the 16th President of the United States. A glowing tribute to “Honest Abe”, the author traces Lincoln’s ancestral roots and recounts his birth in Kentucky, his youth in Indiana, his ad...

History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD. This compilation is designed to be a companion to the author's History of Greece. It is hoped that it may fill a want, now felt in many high schools and academies, of a short and clear statement of the rise and fall of Rome,...

Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career has been destroyed by some faulty research he has done. He becomes infatuated with a teenage dancer, and on a whim he boards the the same ste...

A touching and adventurous story about how Prince Bertie had a lion as a pet when he was still a boy prince. With a nod of acknowledgment to

The war between the Greeks and the Trojans is in its tenth year. The Trojans rejoice when the Greek army departs leaving behind a giant wooden horse. The Trojans are divided - should they set fire to the statue or should they worship it?The story is mentioned in Homer&#...

Alice continues her out-of-the way experience as she stretches like a telescope, and then almost shrinks away altogether. She has a wonderful conversation with her feet, she fears that she might have become Mabel, and she dreadfully offends a mouse. It all ends in tears - so m...

A man's wife is caught up in Philanthropy, generously supporting all sorts of good causes. But that does not include her husband's interests in "the Turf or the Stable - no feeling except one of positive distaste." So what is he to do? How about somehow getting her to "endow a Ho...

"THE author of this volume desires . . . to say . . . that it is his earnest hope that this record of a hero may be an aid to brave and true living in the Republic, so that the problems knocking at its door for solution may find the heads, the hands, and the hearts equal to the p...