A treasure trove of wise and pithy sayings, reflections on education, family values, the ideal human being, life and living, politics, art, culture an...
These are Lenten lectures dealing with the problem of sin, its nature, the Sacrament of Penance, avoiding the occasions that lead to sin, how Jesus hi...
This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journalist, set...
Brigadier Etienne Gerard is a Hussar officer in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity – he is utte...
"When this book first came to my mind it came as a history and theory of the building of Magic Cities on tables, with bricks and toys and little thing...
The book follows the adventures of two main characters - Clementina Wing, a talented artist in her mid 30's with no social graces and Ephraim Quixtus,...
In this volume, the author has "tried to point out a few of the things that make [the world] so loveable. If something I have said," he writes, "makes...
It sometimes happens, when we are dispirited, that God's gracious gift of reviving comes to us along a very ordinary channel--in the form, perhaps, of...
In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode...
Ireland is a land of beauty, history, and culture. From the towering Cliffs of Moher to the lush green countryside, there is something for everyone to...
In her classic work Christ's Object Lessons, Ellen G. White uses everyday objects to illustrate the truths of the Bible.
Christ's Object Lessons is a...
A golden poem that captures the beauty and fragility of a butterfly.
Chrysomela is a poem by Robert Herrick that celebrates the beauty and fragility...
In a radiant palace once stood a throne of wit and wisdom, but now a haunting darkness reigns.
Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace is a haunting and...
In the enchanting realm of "Out of Bohemia: A Story of Paris Student-Life," Gertrude Christian Fosdick weaves a mesmerizing tapestry of passion, rebel...
