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A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens (author)

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781602911697

Journey between London and Paris during that perilous time known as the French Revolution. This is a story of two men that look alike - one in danger of being beheaded by the guillotine, and the other a hero who sacrifices his own life for his friend. The French Revolution has been called The Reign of Terror, and you will feel the terror in your own bones as you read!

What Is Man? And Other Essays

Mark Twain (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532426827

Besides his one-of-a-kind fiction craftsmanship, Mark Twain was also an excellent essayist. In his essays, Twain tried to solve the human kind’s riddles and answer those burning questions asked ever since Ancient Greece. Is Man an egocentric and conditional machine? What is Circumstance? Are all Men mad? Why do we create idols? Twain has an answer for all these questions!

What's Wrong With The World

G.K. Chesterton (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532426841

Shaving the child’s head doesn’t solve a lice infestation. To solve the problem, G.K. Chesterton believes, the humankind must look inward and in depth, and address the poverty issues plus the today’s precarious living conditions. But what about the women’s right to vote or the human being’s rapid dehumanization?

Timaeus

Plato (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532426636

An excellent summary of Platonic metaphysics - Plato explains the elaborately wrought account of the formation of the universe that concerns the creation of the world by a Demiurge.

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

William James (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532426421

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is not a book about a specific religion. The author, psychologist Williams James, does not try to convince the reader one religion is better than the other. He doesn’t even make a case for atheism and the scientific approach. The book is in fact about human nature and how we experience religion at a psychological level.

The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln

Wayne Whipple (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532426285

Using interviews with people who knew the great Abraham Lincoln, Wayne Whipple tries to build a character that's as great as the 16th President of the United States. Follow his journey from a motherless boy living in a humble hut to his great challenges that ultimately built his magnificent personality and prepared him for his final battle, the battle that would change America forever.

The Story of Burnt Njal (Njal's Saga)

Unknown Icelanders (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532426254

This classic Icelandic saga hails from the 13th century and provides a stunning look into a culture long past. Divided into three parts, this prose epic deals with friendship, tragedy and retribution and is a breathtaking look at Medieval Norse culture.

The Rights of Man

Thomas Paine (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532426049

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Thomas Paine sensed the need for someone to defend social uprisings like the French Revolution…this is how Rights of Man was born. The book was revolutionary at the time speaking of the right of the people to revolt if the government doesn’t meet their demands. As important, the book dismisses the political Adam and the notion of ruling by heredity.

The Marrow of Tradition

Charles W. Chesnutt (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425448

In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt takes a page from the post- Civil War American history book and tries to bring it back to life so that the reader can truly understand the roots of race segregation. Set in the fictional southern town of Wellington, the action is based upon the real 1898 Wilmington insurrection that shook the American society to the ground. The novel takes the reader to uncharted territories where the emerging white aristocracy is trying to get rid of the ‘blacks’.

The Mantle and Other Stories

Nikolai Gogol (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425424

A collection of short comic stories by Nikolai Gogol that focus on the ugly and the sad elements in life.

The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425363

Aramis wants to replace the current King of France, Louis XIV with a puppet ruler so he asks Porthos for help. D'Artagnan on the other hand sides with the current King so he immediately helps Louis when he is at peril. He also has to arrest his former friends for treason. Will he do it?

The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424946

Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia has everything he could possibly desire except his freedom. He is trapped and wants to know more about the outside world. Imlac has a plan to escape and Nekayah - Rasselas’s sister - decides to join the party of expatriates in their quest to seek happiness.

The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons

H.S. Olcott (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425233

In The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons, readers can find practical applications for the tenets of Buddhism in this short essay. Learn about the life of the Buddha and how you can follow his example.

The Heritage of the Desert

Zane Grey (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424939

John Hare should have died… instead he is saved by a man with an adopted Indian daughter. He is also dragged into the light after experiencing the darkness of the West. But he isn’t quite ready to embrace it. First he must learn to love.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425042

First performed in 1895, the play is a satire of Victorian culture and social obligations. This play is witty and funny and is the most popular and enduring of Oscar Wilde's plays.

The Heart of Happy Hollow

Paul Laurence Dunbar (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424922

The Heart of Happy Hollow is a collection of 16 short stories that revolve around a small southern community named Sleepy Hollow. Witness the tense relationship between the former slaves and their masters, the young free African-American’s struggles and the way they see the leading white class.

The Idiot

Dostoevsky Fyodor (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425011

When a Prince returns to Russia after years in a sanatorium, he finds himself scorned by the aristocracy because of his trusting nature and naiveté. Caught in a love triangle between a virtuous and pretty young girl and a mistress of the aristocracy, he finds his morals threatened in this psychological Russian thriller. The Idiot is one of Fyodor Dostoevsky's greatest works and often called one of the greatest Russian novels of all time.

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424960

The House of Mirth is a novel by Edith Wharton about a woman who is destroyed by the society that created her. It is the story of Lily Bart, a high-society, but penniless, young woman in turn-of-the-century New York.

The Dhammapada

F. Max Muller (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424618

The book contains 423 verses in 26 categories, all verses spoken by the Buddha on various occasions. Most of the verses deal with ethics and spiritual thoughts.

The Divine Comedy: The Inferno

Dante Alighieri (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424656

The first section of Dante's Divine Comedy. In the first part of Divine Comedy, Dante, guided by the poet Virgil, plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous journey towards God. By fusing humor and satire with intellect, an immortal Christian allegory of humankind’s search for self-knowledge and spiritual enlightenment was created.

The Enchiridion

Epictetus (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424687

Know how to live without using your emotions, guided only by the mind. Learn how to see the mundane, how to approach situations that may or may not be in your direct control. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes and most importantly, don’t be afraid to change. This is what stoicism is all about.

The Essence of Buddhism

Various (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424724

The Essence of Buddhism is a collection of quotes about life and how to live it at its fullest. While the quotes contain the teachings of the Buddha, they also can provide the non-Buddhist reader a blueprint of how to approach the mundane and how to avoid suffering.

The Duel and Other Stories

Anton Chekov (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424663

Using his keen spirit of observation, Anton Chekhov depicts in his short stories the world as it is, focusing on the range of emotions one might feel throughout his life. From love to hatred, from exaltation to misery, from epiphany to utter confusion, every character has to experience all human emotions in order to understand life.

The English at the North Pole

Jules Verne (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424694

The book contains an accurate picture of Arctic life and of the Arctic geography known to the world of 1864 and describes the adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole.

The Fall of the House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424731

The Fall of the House of Usher is a Gothic novel by Edgar Allan Poe. The story tells of a mysterious house and an unnamed narrator's horrific experience with it.