9/11 THROUGH THE LENS (250 Pictures of the Tragedy) is a visual record of September 11, 2001, assembled through 250 photographs that confront the event's scale, immediacy, and human cost. Moving between iconic scenes and less familiar details, the collection presents the attacks, the destruction of the World Trade Center, the crisis at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania, and the aftermath of rescue, mourning, and collective response. Its literary force lies less in narration than in juxtapos...

The impressions of an American in Japan during the years following the opening of the island nation to American Trade. This short piece details the visit to Nagasaki and to the Governor.

This is a review of some of the odd fashions of the 17-19th centuries. This short illustrated piece covers both clothing and hair styles of the day. Richly illustrated.

The year is 2073—and civilization has crumbled. In The Scarlet Plague, Jack London offers a terrifying glimpse into a future devastated by pandemic and societal collapse. Written in 1912, this haunting novella is one of the earliest examples of post-apocalyptic fiction—eerily prophetic in its themes of global plague, the fragility of civilization, and the resilience of storytelling. Sixty years after the plague, only a few survivors remain. James Smith, once a professor of English, n...

FREE Audiobook + Author's Biography + Interactive Table of Contents Dystopian Plague Classic! The year is 2072, and the earth has been depopulated by a plague epidemic that struck in 2013. The victims of the scarlet plague are dead within an hour or less of the first symptoms appearing. The plague is so swift that research laboratories are wiped out even as scientists are racing toward a cure. As panic spreads, order breaks down and looting and carnage reign. Broadcast stations f...

THE following papers, with two exceptions, were written in England, and formed but part of an intended series for which I had made notes and memorandums. Before I could mature a plan, however, circumstances compelled me to send them piecemeal to the United States, where they were published from time to time in portions or numbers. It was not my intention to publish them in England, being conscious that much of their contents could be interesting only to American readers, and, in truth, bei...

A Brief Illustrated look at Baldwins adventures as a big game hunter in equatorial Africa during the mid 19th century.

A princess born without gravity must navigate a world where she literally floats away from her responsibilities and her feelings. Her whimsical struggle to find her footing is a clever metaphor for the emotional weight required to truly live. A charming and profound fairy tale about the gravity of love and the necessity of tears.

An early exploration briefly describes life with the Inuit peoples during the mid nineteenth century. Illustrated.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘There was a contagion in the very air that blew from that haunted region; it breathed forth an atmosphere of dreams and fancies infecting all the land.’Featuring ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘Rip Van Winkle’, this collection of inspired essays, stories and sketches established Washington Irving’s reputation as one of America’s foremost authors. Irving’s timeless characters, including Ichabod Cra...