“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld my man completed ..."The summer of 1816 was by all accounts a cold and wet one. After the April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, global temperatures dropped and a rainy, monsoon-like drizzle settled in over Northern Europe. In a holiday villa on the shores of Lake Geneva, a young English poet and his lover, the guests of another poet, discouraged from outdoor pursuits, sat discussing the callousness of nature ...

The Book of Revelation, often known simply as Revelation or the Apocalypse, is the final book of the Bible and is the only purely apocalyptic book in the New Testament. The author of the work identifies himself in the text as "John" and says that he was on Patmos, an island in the Aegean, when he was instructed by a heavenly figure to write down the contents of a vision. Most modern scholars believe it was written around AD 95, with some believing it dates from around AD 70. The book spans...

US Military in WW2: The Submarines presents three classic first-hand accounts of life aboard a US Navy submarine during World War 2.Rendezvous by Submarine - The Story of Charles Parsons and the Guerrilla-Soldiers in the Philippines by Travis Ingham tells how American-led guerrilla forces in the Philippines paved the way for US forces to re-take the Japanese held islands.U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific by ...

Saga Six Pack 4 presents a sizzling sextet of Scandinavian super-sagas:In the Days of Giants - A Book of Norse Tales by Abbie Farwell BrownSaga of Halfdan the Black by Snorri SturlusonTrue and Untrue by George Webbe DasentSaga of Sigurd the Crusader and his Brothers Eystein and Olaf by Snorri SturlusonKing Alfred's Viking - A Story of the First English Fleet by Charles W. Whistler

Every version of Cinderella in one beautifully formatted e-book with stunning original art.The Cat CinderellaThe Little Glass SlipperAschenputtelThe Baba YagaThe Little Glass SlipperKatie WoodencloakTattercoatsAshey PeltThe Sharp Grey SheepRashin-CoatieCap O’RushesThe Hearth CatThe Princess and The Golden ShoesThe Twelve MonthsYeh-ShenKongji and PatzziBawang Puti...

Long before Sherlock Holmes, six sleuths on either side of the Atlantic thrilled readers of early crime fiction - Inspector Bucket, C. Augustine Dupin, Amelia Butterworth, Sergeant Cuff, Loveday Brooke and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.Here they all are, together in one impressive collection of 24 novellas, two novels and 190 original illustrations. Six crime fighters who paved the way for Holmes, Watson et al.An extraordinary anthology from six Masters of Mystery including E...

"Apocrypha … books which are not regarded as equal to the holy Scriptures, and yet are profitable and good to read." ~ Martin LutherThirteen examples of biblical pseudepigrapha including the rarely read Living Oracles translation of the Book of Revelation, the Apocalypse of Abraham and many other sought after texts which shed light on the evolution of our faith, our theology, and our church.The Lost Books:The Apocalypse of AbrahamThe Living Oracles ...

This new digital edition of the complete King James Bible includes a Table of Contents for easy navigation.

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”- Aristotle.Just as the Stoics were named for the stoa or porch in Athens where they congregated, the Peripatetic school - known in its day simply as the Peripatos - took its moniker from the peripatoi or covered walkways of the Lyceum where its members met. (A similar Greek word peripatetikos refers to the act of walking, and after Aristotle's death, a legend arose that he was a ‘peripatetic’ lecturer – that he walked about as he ...

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”- Socrates.Two centuries before the Stoics lived The Sophists, star philosophers who roamed Athens during the fifth century B.C. commanding large fees for speaking and private lessons. They offered practical education, speculation on the nature of the universe and knowledge in the art of life and politics. The most famous were Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, Thrasymachus, Callicles, Lycophron, Antiphon...

Nice one, mate! It's British Mystery Multipack 13, a murder, mystery and suspense lover's treat. Six of the finest mystery short stories of all time penned by undisputed masters of the suspense genre. Included in this anthology:The Aspern Papers by Henry James.The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle.An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce.The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant.

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”- Epicurus.Founded in the fourth century BC, Epicureanism was the main alternative philosophy to Stoicism. Based upon the teachings of Greek philosopher Epicurus, the philosophy propounded an ethic of individual pleasure as the sole or chief good in life. Epicurus advocated living in such a way as to derive the greatest amount of pleasure possible during one's lifetime, ...