This is the story of three brothers and their four sisters. How their lives were growing up in a little town in California in the 1940's. It's about the games they played and troubles they got into, as they attended school and church. It's about being poor and the boys leaving school to go to work as they tried to make a better life for themselves. It's about living in foster homes then going to live with their father who was much too old and cranky to be taking his boys to raise at the ag...

A young girl's diary portrays the sensitive journey of a young girl's transformation from childhood to adolescence as she records her most personal thoughts and emotions in a diary. Set against a backdrop of societal change, the narrative captures her gradual awakening to self-awareness while addressing the confusions and discoveries that accompany growing up. The entries reveal her inner struggle to understand friendship and familial affection, together with the first stirrings of romanti...

This book, first published in 1920, is an analysis of socialist trends and a synthesis of proletarian aims. It attempts to establish the new political philosophy of left-wing socialists and coins a new term, ‘ergatocracy’ to mean ‘workers’ rule’ and the abolishment of class in the organisation of society.

The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig.In Struggle with the Daemon Stefan Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Hölderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche — powerful minds whose ideas were at odds with the scientific positivism of their age; troubled spirits whose intoxicating passions drove them mad but inspired them...

The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig. Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche – powerful minds whose ideas were at odds with the scientific positivism of their age; troubled spirits whose intoxicating passions drove them mad but inspired them to great works. In their struggle with their inner creative force, ...

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the first to circumnavigate the globe, sailed on behalf of the Spanish monarch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and discovered the straights that now bear his name and the Philippines.“Magellan is written in a tone of astonished wonder... a persuasive and crisp portrait of Magellan... Stefan Zweig brings the story of Magellan to life.” — Charles Poore, The New York Times“[A]n extremely well...

Casanova, the Venetian who lived most of his life in exile from his beloved city and created his own myth which in turn is a reflection of the nature of the city itself is the subject of this masterly biographical essay by Stefan Zweig. As Zweig describes in this volume: Imaginative writers rarely have a biography, and men who have biographies are only in exceptional circumstances able to write them ... Casanova is a splendid, almost unique exception. Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in V...

Between overseeing his private practice and developing an entirely new field of research and inquiry that would profoundly influence Western culture, Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud somehow came across and helped to publish the diary of an anonymous young girl of the European upper classes. The detailed journal follows the young authoress from the age of 11 to the age of 14 1/2, through high school, schoolyard crushes, and the tumult of adolescence.

'Every thoughtful human being has to establish the landmarks between freedom and authority'When Sebastian Castellio dared to protest John Calvin's theocratic control of Geneva, he knew his lone voice could never overcome one of Europe's most powerful leaders. His feud with Calvin condemned Castellio to terror, censorship and poverty; his writings to historical oblivion.Four hundred years later, Stefan Zweig found in Castellio a consoling hero of free-thinki...

Translated from the Russian in 1933, this and the first volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of this book) the work presents a unified and complete work on the problems of Leninism and socialist construction as they were manifested in the 1920s, as well as discussion of the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR ...

Stefan Zweig was born on the 28th November 1881 in Vienna, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and into a wealthy Jewish family with interests in banking and textiles.He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and achieved his degree in

Achille Loria was a well-known Italian political economist and this translation of his work presents his views and discussions on famous socialist Karl Marx, bringing his work to an English audience. Originally published in 1917, the translators have included a detailed foreword which attempts to put Loria’s work in context of other views on Marxism. This title will be of interest to students of politics and sociology.