In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that my life from this point onward has been so public.
To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand.
Nothing comes amiss in the great business of preparation, if it has been thoroughly well learned.
Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917.
A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.
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.
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 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.
Buddhism is a religion which must be viewed from many angles.
William Morris was an English writer, architect, and artist and was integral to the birth of socialism in Great Britain.
The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.
Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance.
Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
In America, in 1770, a well-defined aristocracy held control.
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories brings together thirty-three of H. G. Wells' science fiction and fantasy short stories which were previously published separately in a variety of periodicals.
There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art.
Sir Joshua Reynolds laid down principles of art from the point of view of a man of genius who had made his power felt, and with the clear good sense which is the foundation of all work that looks upward and may hope to live.
The Emerson System treats the voice as a natural reporter of the individual, constantly emphasizing the tendency of the voice to express appropriately any mental concept or state of feeling.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time.
We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies (For some recent views on fairies and tales about fairies, see Notes.)