Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance.

The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.

William Morris was an English writer, architect, and artist and was integral to the birth of socialism in Great Britain.

Buddhism is a religion which must be viewed from many angles.

The industrialist, businessman, and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919) established a gospel of wealth that can be neither ignored nor forgotten, and set a pace in distribution that succeeding millionaires have followed as a precedent.

Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York and summed them all up in this book.

The demand for this book has come from the students in the class room who have listened to these lectures on the Great Doctrines of the Bible.

A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.

Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917.

Nothing comes amiss in the great business of preparation, if it has been thoroughly well learned.

To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand.

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion.

There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry.

There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.

Chrétien de Troyes' Four Arthurian Romances continued and expanded on existing Arthurian legends, but began the Arthurian Romance genre, so popular in Medieval literature.

From the author: My aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with limitations of space.

The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams.

Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection.