Fiction & Literature
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill
Heretics is a collection of 20 essays originally published by G. K. Chesterton in 1905. While the loci of the chapters of Heretics are personalities, the topics he debates are as universal to the "vague moderns" of the 21st century as they were to th...
Dumas, in truth, composed his 'Crimes Celebres' fair earlier to propelling upon his brilliant arrangement of chronicled books, and they may in this manner be considered as source books, whence he was to draw so much of that far-reaching and hint info...
On the little planet Lucifram, returning bright and loneliness Cruising among the stars, exchanging annual greetings with them The shining and waning of the laws of the sun took them out of space and within the hail, people each walked upside d...
The term dates at least to the 17th century, when it was applied to Puritan roundheads during the English Civil War. It came to include residents of colonial New England, who were mostly Puritans in support of the Parliamentarians during the war. It...
Dr James Mortimer calls on Sherlock Holmes in London for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the yew alley of his manor on Dartmoor in Devon. The death was attributed to a heart attack, but according to Mortimer, Sir Cha...
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, E...
Philosopher, mathematician and social critic, Bertrand Russell was granted the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Within The Examination of Intellect, one of his most compelling and energizing books, Russell presents an interesting compromise of the...
