Frederick Douglass was born in slavery as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey near Easton in Talbot County, Maryland. He was not sure of the exact year of his birth, but he knew that it was 1817 o...więcej »
"Psychoanalysis has sprung many surprises on us, performed more than one volte face before our indignant eyes. No sooner had we got used to the psychiatric quack who vehemently demonstrated the ser...więcej »
Everything that is in action must necessarily work through definite laws. And as the mind is in constant action, alternating its actions at almost every turn of thought or feeling, it is evident th...więcej »
Applied Psychology, Psychology and Achievement is the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency.
Within Applied Psyc...więcej »
Ulysses is considered a modernist masterpiece, funny, sorrowful, and blasphemous. Through the book's stream-of-consciousness technique we're privy to the thoughts, emotions, and memories of, Stephe...więcej »
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin finds himself at the center of a struggle between a beautiful kept woman and a virtuous and pretty young girl, both of whom win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkin...więcej »
The Princess and Curdie George MacDonald's fantasy novel and the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin.
The story continues with Princess Irene and Curdie a year or two older. They must overthrow ...więcej »
No historical study of current issues-politics or social science or theology-can far proceed without bringing the student face to face with the principles asserted by the Reformation of the Sixteen...więcej »
Great Expectations is often considered to be Dickens' finest novel. It is a coming-of-age novel that depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow dreams to a...więcej »
White Nights is told in first person by a nameless narrator who lives in Saint Petersburg and suffers from loneliness. He falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the wo...więcej »
The title of this book, SEA STORIES, tells the entire tale. Enclosed within these 276 pages you will find excerpts of some of the most famous...więcej »
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an epic sea-story of Captain Ahab's voyage in pursuit of Moby Dick, a great white whale and is considered one of the Great American Novels and a leading work of American...więcej »
Gabriel John Utterson is a London lawyer investigating the strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and a sinister figure, Edward Hyde. After a number of incidences involving H...więcej »
The Beautiful and Damned portrays the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, exploring New York café society. It tells the story of Anthony Patch, a socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune...więcej »
Dr. Franklin, wishing to collect into one piece all the sayings upon the following subjects, which he had dropped in the course of publishing the Almanacks called "Poor Richard," introduces Father ...więcej »
In The Crowd, Le Bon examines the various characteristics of crowd psychology: "impulsiveness, irritability, incapacity to reason, the absence of judgment of the critical spirit, the exaggeration o...więcej »
Home Education is the first volume of Charlotte Mason's six part homeschooling series, a series that is considered one of the finest ever written on education. It consists of six lectures about rai...więcej »
Miyamoto Musashi's Go Rin no Sho or the book of five rings, is considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra. The...więcej »
In this day and age, and in some circles, Christmas doesn't live in the minds and hearts of people the way it used to. That's a shame, because Christmas is a special time when all hearts should be...więcej »
Hyne, and his artist friend Cecil Hayter travelled overland from Varanger Fjord in Arctic Norway to the head of the Gulf of Bothnia with the aim of observing the Sami in their own habitat. Approxim...więcej »