"Its impressive eloquence, its unfeigned lightness of heart, its playful and sparkling humour, its gentle spirit of humanity" all put the reader ...

Jerome K Jerome is best known for his hilarious book ""Three Men in a Boat"" charting the misadventures of the author and his friends on a boating trip ...

A modern reproduction of perhaps the most important scientific text of all time-- Newton's original 1687 edition of "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. ...

The Edda is our richest treasure trove of Norse mythology. Complete and unabridged. The Prose Edda is our richest treasure trove of Germanic and ...

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: The Church That Had Too Much had many good intentions. She wanted to love God, she wanted to love people, but she was both hampered ...

Oscar Wilde, arguably the wittiest writer in English, was at the height of this powers when he wrote The Importance of Being Earnes t.   Wilde ...

Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish enlightenment. "A Treatise of Human Nature" ...

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first English Language ...

"Barrie wrote his fantasy of childhood, added another figure to our enduring literature . . . It is a masterpiece." -J. B. Priestley. This book is ...

In this lavishly illustrated book by Anita Mathias, Francesco, artist of Florence, creates magic in pietre dure, inlaying precious stones in marble in ...

"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth," Jesus says in his most puzzling Beatitude. Puzzling, because, if we are honest, it does not ...

Kenneth Grahame captured the imagination of the English speaking world with his books in the early 1900s. Later "The Wind in the Willows" and "The Reluctant ...

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known as the "father of psychoanalysis" and his ideas, however controversial, were fundamental in shaping how the human mind ...

" The book has a bright and joyous atmosphere. It will indeed be strange if there be a normal child who will not enjoy the story ." "The funniest ...

A timeless translation that continues to inspire and guide Catholics around the world    The Douay-Rheims Bible has stood the test of ...

Edward Lear's delightful nonsense verse is as fresh and fun now as it has always been. This brilliant collection from 1900 is illustrated by the peerless ...

The Complete Inspector Grant includes all five of the Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries by Josephine Tey. Josephine Tey - Inspector Alan Grant Mysteries: The ...