These 15 short stories, typically “artful studies of abnormal states of mind”, were selected from various sources. The collection includes “Easter...

An educated gentleman, Mr Manington has given an insight into the unusual experiences of an Englishman in the French Foreign Legion, such as no...

This book explains what the Bible and history show about God's Holy Days and popular holidays.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of the most prominent American suffragists, was not only known as an accomplished author of fiction and non-fiction...

Perhaps there have been causes for slaughter just as silly as this was—but try to find one!

In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the beliefs of the Burmese people. He offers an understandable, and yet thorough,...

A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cutting edge...

“Levity” is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a...

The Summa Theologica is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for...

The story told in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel, A Little Princess, was first written as a serialized novella, Sara Crewe, or What...

A second volume of humorous essays on various subjects, following the success of Idle thoughts Of An Idle Fellow.

"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various applications,...