The Anatomy of Melancholy is, quite self-consciously, the book to end all books. The immensely widely read Robert Burton compiled it from the books that existed in a 17th-century librar...
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles: the axioms of geometry. The choice of axioms and their relations to one anoth...
Oscar Wilde, arguably the wittiest writer in English, was at the height of this powers when he wrote The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde wrote it quickly, but then extens...
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 L. Leslie Brooke...
"The Prince" shocked Europe in the sixteenth century-clearly describing and analyzing the tactics used haphazardly by rulers of the day. His advice has been studied and heeded ever since, and is s...
The Prose Edda is our richest treasure trove of Germanic and Norse mythology--starting with a creation myth, passing through the struggle of the gods, giants, dwarves, ...
'The Republic', Plato's best-known work, is one of the world's most influential works of philosophy and political theory. 'Apology' is Plato's record of Socrates' final speech. (Also available in...
"The Seven Ecumenical Councils
Of The Undivided Church:
Their Canons And Dogmatic Decrees
Together With The Canons Of All The Local synods Which Have Received Ecumenical Acceptance.
Edited With Not...
"The book has a bright and joyous atmosphere and does not dwell upon killing and deeds of violence. Enough stirring adventure enters into it, however, to f...
Three Translations of the Koran (Al-Qu'ran) side-by-side with each verse not split across pages. This book compiles three English translations of the Koran, by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Picktha...
Thoreau's "Walden" is an American Classic. E. B. White writes, "Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives-the ...