Literature Books

Fear and Trembling/The Book on Adler

Fear and Trembling/The Book on Adler

by Soren Kierkegaard

Now recognized as one of the nineteenth century's leading psychologists and philosophers, Kierkegaard was among other things the harbinger of exisentialisim....

tags: theology, philosophy, religion, nonfiction, literature

Selected Literary Essays

Selected Literary Essays

This volume, available in print for the first time since 1980, includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis' most important literary essays, written between 1932 and...

tags: writing, essays, classics, nonfiction, literature, criticism, literary criticism

The Major Works

The Major Works

by Francis Bacon

This authoritative edition brings together an extensive collection of Bacon's writing - the major prose in full, together with sixteen other pieces not...

tags: english literature, writing, philosophy, essays, classics, nonfiction, literature

Hereward, the Last of the English

Hereward, the Last of the English

by Charles Kingsley

Work by Charles Kingsley, a prolific English novelist and author whose main power lay in his descriptive faculties. Kingsley's interest in history spilled over...

tags: historical, academic, school, historical fiction, classics, medieval, fiction, literature

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's CabinUncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white...

tags: historical, 19th century, historical fiction, classics, novels, civil war, african american, fiction, literature, military history, cultural

Autobiography / Poor Richard / Later Writings

Autobiography / Poor Richard / Later Writings

by Benjamin Franklin

Note: When first issued, the Library of America edition of Franklin's WritingsWritings was collected in one large volume; later, it was published as two...

tags: american history, american, finance, politics, memoir, classics, north american hi..., biography, economics, autobiography, nonfiction, literature, history

The Works of John Donne (Poetry Library)

The Works of John Donne (Poetry Library)

John Donne (1572-1631) is a poet of concerted emotional and intellectual force, whose strenuously original approach to the subject matter, diction and form of...

tags: literature, poetry, classics

Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly / The Minister's Wooing / Oldtown Folks

Three Novels: Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly / The Minister's Wooing / Oldtown Folks

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In this Library of America volume are the best and most enduring works of Harriet Beecher Stowe, “the little woman,” as Abraham Lincoln said when he met her in...

tags: american, historical, classics, fiction, literature

Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas

Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas

by Thomas Aquinas

Edited, with an Introduction by Anton C. Pegis with selections from SUMMA THEOLOGICA and SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES

tags: philosophy, religion, 13th century, history, christianity, theology, literature, christian, reference, classics, nonfiction

The Gambler and Other Stories

The Gambler and Other Stories

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Gambler and Other StoriesThe Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life -...

tags: short stories, cultural, literary fiction, classics, literature, classic literature, 19th century, russia, russian literature, fiction

Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul

Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul

by Octavius Winslow

Practical, biblical counsel for those who have lost their decisive commitment to the Lord.

tags: theology, 19th century, spirituality, literature, christianity, religion, christian living, christian

Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz

Striving Towards Being: The Letters of Thomas Merton and Czeslaw Milosz

by Thomas Merton

In 1958 Thomas Merton wrote an admiring letter to Czeslaw Milosz about his seminal work The Captive Mind. Milosz replied and thus began an animated...

tags: philosophy, religion, biography, poetry, christianity, literature

The Portable Edmund Burke

The Portable Edmund Burke

by Edmund Burke

The intellectual wellspring of modern political conservatism, Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural...

tags: 18th century, politics, philosophy, classics, nonfiction, literature, history

Geoffrey Chaucer (Chesterton's Biographies)

Geoffrey Chaucer (Chesterton's Biographies)

by G.K. Chesterton

The medieval poet as seen by a 20th century voice of art.The medieval poet as seen by a 20th century voice of art.

tags: historical, biography, medieval, nonfiction, literature, history, criticism

The Coloured Lands: A Whimsical Gathering Of Drawings, Stories, And Poems

The Coloured Lands: A Whimsical Gathering Of Drawings, Stories, And Poems

by G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton. The Coloured Lands. London: Sheed and Ward, 1938. First edition, first printing. Quarto. 238 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.

tags: literature, european literature, classics, fantasy, fiction, poetry, british literature

Writings

by George Washington

For two centuries, George Washington has stood “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” universally acknowledged as the one...

tags: nonfiction, american, writing, american revolution, politics, essays, classics, north american hi..., presidents, biography, american history, literature, history, military history

Past and Present

Past and Present

by Thomas Carlyle

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books...

tags: nonfiction, history, historical, politics, victorian, classics, british literature, literature, 19th century, european literature, philosophy, essays, writing

Donne: Poems

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: DonnePoems:...

tags: literature, poetry, classics

Noites Brancas e Outras Histórias

Noites Brancas e Outras Histórias

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A imensa obra do romancista russo Fiodor Dostoiévski foi uma das mais influentes de seu tempo e a que mais fascínio despertou, quer pelo conflito de seus...

tags: short stories, classics, literature, russian literature, fiction

The Everyman Chesterton

The Everyman Chesterton

by G.K. Chesterton

The first one-volume reader of the best of G. K. Chesterton’s writing in the full range of genres he mastered.Chesterton was a towering literary figure of the...

tags: theology, writing, european literature, essays, religion, fiction, literature, british literature

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