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''In Moses and Monotheism,'' Freud speculates that Moses was not Jewish, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was perhaps a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. Freud further suggests that Moses led only his close followers into freedom...
This work is the classic history of the development of modern diplomacy in Renaissance Europe. Sometime after the year 1400, the diplomatic traditions of civilized cultures - which have existed as far back as the records of human history extend - took a sharp turn that...
First published in the US in 1935 by New Republic, public domain. ''Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose'' is a philosophical and rhetorical exploration of the concepts of permanence and change in human life and society, written by American literary theorist...
Helen Wilmot, a resourceful and loyal young woman, journeys to India to live with her widower father and Adela Lauriston, her ravishing yet headstrong cousin. When Helen’s father dies, she moves in with Adela and her husband, the dashing Captain Richard Morton. Adela’s...
"The Forsyte Saga" is a renowned work by Galsworthy, consisting of three novels and two interludes, published between 1906 and 1921. It follows the lives of the Forsyte family, a wealthy and influential British family, and explores themes of love, marriage, class, and...
"Pat of Silver Bush" portrays a girl named Patricia Gardiner, who hates changes of any kind and loves her home, Silver Bush, more than anything else in the world. The book begins when Pat is 7 years old and ends when she is 18. She is very devoted to her family: her...
''How It Feels To Be Colored Me'' by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece about her own color, Hurston reflects on ...
In "Homo Ludens," the classic evaluation of play that has become a "must-read" for those in game design, Dutch philosopher Johan Huizinga defines play as the central activity in flourishing societies. Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing...
First published in 1939, public domain. In “Eight Lectures on Yoga,” Aleister Crowley was among the first Europeans to study, practice and teach Yoga. These lectures set forth some of Crowley's conclusions after a lifelong philosophical investigation. The first series...
This book, originally published in 1939, comprises a series of letters written by American author J. Allen Boone to the late Strongheart, née Etzel von Oringer, the hugely popular German Shepherd film star of the 1920’s. A true actor, Strongheart was the hero of six...
"Mistress Pat" is the sequel to “Pat of Silver Bush” and describes Patricia Gardiner's life in her twenties and early thirties, during which she remained single and took care of her beloved home, Silver Bush. All she could ever ask of life was bound in the magic of the...
Parade's End is a tetralogy of novels by the British novelist and poet Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), first published from 1924 to 1928, public domain. The novels chronicle the life of a member of the English gentry before, during and after World War I. The setting is...
This is an account of the curious murder case in which the sixteen-year-old Constance Kent was the central figure. In a little village in Somerset a small boy was murdered in mysterious circumstances, and suspicion centred on many persons, one after another. Jonathan...
Omnibus edition of James' famous ghost stories, incorporating his four earlier collections, with some additional items not included in these earlier volumes.
Clarence Day's reminiscences of growing up in a turn-of-the-century New York household which keeps wriggling out from under the thumb of a blustering Wall Street paterfamilias are classics of American humor.
At the London service flat where she lives with her husband, dies after eating a meal which later analysis shows was infused with digitalis. Scotland Yard at first suspect her husband, who had been called away by a telephone call of murdering her. However, with...
The old ferryman had caught many strange fish in his time, but none so strange as the body he fished out of the harbour one summer evening as the tide was on the turn. To his horror he saw at once that it was Captain Stanlake, the local harbour master. In the few months...
The book starts with the gruesome discovery of the dismembered body of an unidentified man in a milk churn outside the premises of a suitably surly farmer. He denies all knowledge of the headless corpse or the churn and Arnold and Merrion set off on the trail, which...
The novel takes place in rural Kent during the hop-picking season. A burglary takes place and the complex circumstances surrounding it led to Sergeant Wragge of the local force calling in Scotland Yard. It is only through the deductions of Priestley, however, that...
In The Mysterious Suspect, wealthy industrialist Peter Horningtoft is found dead in his study after apparently drinking poison from a bottle sent to him as a rheumatism treatment. Jimmy Waghorn is called in and blunders through the case initially until assisted by Dr...
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