Throughout his richly varied literary career, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) wrote compelling short stories of enduring appeal. His first important publication, long before The Scarlet Letter, was the 1837 collection Twice-Told Tales, which brought the New England writer immediate fame and...

Purchase the entire Great Books 102: Renaissance to Modern collection and save! This bundle includes: Pride and Prejudice The Fall Don Quixote Notes from Underground Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot Goethe's Faust Paradise Lost Hamlet The Tempest The Adventures of Huckleberry...

Prose Translation by: Robert Durling Robert Durling's translations of Inferno and Purgatorio are widely admired; in a sea of English-language translations of Dante, the ones provided by Durling stand among the best. Notes not only illuminate Paradiso, but stress the...

In the first eight months of his wartime premiership, Winston Churchill surmounted more crises than many leaders face in an entire career. He became Prime Minister as a fast-disintegrating ground war in Europe, and a German blitzkrieg as intense as...

The letters and documents reproduced in this volume of The Churchill Documents span the period from May 1915 to December 1916, following Churchill’s departure from the Admiralty. From then until December 1916 he was successively Chancellor of the Duchy of...

The Hillsdale College K-12 American History Curriculum is a complete collection of lesson plans for teaching the nation's history. This curriculum provides teachers with guidance—not dictates—about how to plan and teach a given topic in American history. Hillsdale College K-12...

The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off Ahab's leg at...

The Ever-Widening War deals with the dramatic events of 1941, during which the Second World War engulfed much of the world. When the year began, Britain stood alone against German dominance in Europe, facing massive air raids, the threat of...

The letters and documents reproduced in this volume of The Churchill Documents were written between July 1914 and April 1915, the period covered by the first part of Martin Gilbert’s volume III of the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill....

From the Preface to this volume by editor Larry P. Arnn: “This 23rd volume of documents in the official biography of Winston Churchill is the last step in a journey that began 57 years ago, having been prepared for decades...

The new volume, the product of considerable research in the Churchill papers, the records of the British Government, and many private archives, takes Churchill’s story from the outbreak of the Second World War on 3 September 1939 to his emergence...

This volume of The Churchill Documents tells Churchill’s story from 1929 to 1935: the first five and a half of his “Wilderness Years.” Based, like the previous volumes, on one of the richest and most complete archives of modern British...

Through the documents in these pages, Martin Gilbert takes the reader on a fascinating journey, covering a wide range of domestic and international problems. Churchill’s vivid personality is evident as each controversy unfolds—traced through private letters and secret Cabinet records,...

Through the documents in these pages, Martin Gilbert takes the reader on a fascinating journey, covering a wide range of domestic and international problems. Churchill’s vivid personality is evident as each controversy unfolds-traced through private letters and secret Cabinet records....

Ovid's epic poem—whose theme of change has resonated throughout the ages—is one of the most important texts of Western imagination, an inspiration from Dante's times to the present day, when writers such as Salman Rushdie and Italo Calvino have found...

Through the documents in these pages, Martin Gilbert takes the reader on a fascinating journey, covering a wide range of domestic and international problems. Churchill’s vivid personality is evident as each controversy unfolds—traced through private letters and secret Cabinet records....

Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled: All for the Best (1759); The Optimist (1762); and Optimism (1947). It...

This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying...