The Slant Book
- Author: Newell Peter
- Genre: Literature
All readers, not only children but also adults, will absolutely love the new children's book by Peter Newell. Containing wonderful pictures and having an amazing style it looks like a tale which grandparents usually read to their grandchildren. You won't get tired of reading The Slant Book many times to your kids of about 4-7 years old, you will always be amused and interested. The main hero of the story is a boy whose buggy goes down the slant causing many inconveniences on its way down.
prolegomena to the study of greek religion
- Author: Harrison Jane Ellen
- Genre: Ancient
Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion is written by one of the founders of studying Greek religion and mythology Jane Ellen Harrison. In this research she makes a careful study of the festivities of ancient Greek religion with the goal to find out the roots and fundamentals of rituals and them being present in the classical religion and literature. The preface of this famous book states that J. G. Frazer has made a great contribution to her research and influenced as well the works of many other researches of religion. Our contemporary academics who examines ancient myths or rituals can say the same words about Jane Harrison. Her thoughts set in the Prolegomena have not lost their importance and innovation.
McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader, Revised Edition
- Author: McGuffey William Holmes
- Genre: Children's Books
Since 1836 these books with exotic adventures, carrying away tales, beautiful poems and amusing fables have attracted children. he First Eclectic Reader contains stories, word lists and phonics charts.
children of the dead end the autobiography of a navvy
- Author: MacGill Patrick
- Genre: Children's Books
“Children of the Dead End” by Patrick MacGill, an Irish novelist, known as "The Navy Poet", appears to be his own autobiography, though written as a fiction novel. The book transports readers to the end of the 19th century, the author’s childhood times in Ireland; and continues the narration of the journey and events of his further navying life. Exhausted by the grinding poverty, the hero leaves home and at the age of 12 in search of work ‘beyond the hills’; works to exhaustion for indifferent tenant farmers, and runs away, joining the emigrants headed for Scotland. The book, a moving tale of lost love, published in 1914, still remains fresh and exciting reading.
The Conquest of Bread
- Author: Kropotkin Petr Alekseevich kniaz
- Genre: Anarchism
The Conquest of Bread was written by the communist Peter Kropotkin in French in 1892. Very soon after its first publication the book was translated into English and published in the London Journal Freedom. Immediately it gained a high popularity and was translated in Norwegian, Japanese and many other languages. The work is written in classic Marxist traditions explaining the defects of the economicx of feudalism and capitalism. Such defects provoke poverty among the greatest part of the population. Kropotkin defends an idea of a new economic system that would be decentralized and based of mutual aid and cooperation. The book also analyzed the premises for such a transition in the contemporary western societies.
The Magic City
- Author: Nesbit Edith
- Genre: Literature
Wonderful, captivating children story. Feeling lonely after being abandoned by his newly married elder sister Helen, Philip tries to adjust to a new life and entertain himself. He builds a city inside a house – from books, blocks and other stuff he played with… and one day Pip finds himself inside this magic city. Citizens told him that there had been a prophesy of two newcomers – the Deliverer and the Destroyer. To prove to be the Deliverer, Philip has to do seven great Deeds. Do you want to join and help Pip kill the dragon, slay the Lions of the Desert… and perform many other interesting things?..
development of religion and thought in ancient egypt
- Author: james henry breasted
- Genre: Religion
This book is intended for all readers regardless of their age and interests. The most outstanding feature of the book is that it demonstrates a wonderful subjects from the history. James Henry Breasted show in which ways literalism disrupted the development of a special system of ethics which made its way from the name "Books of the Dead" and transformed into the equivalent of cosmic "get out of jail free cards". The author shows such trends in our society. This book as it is believed is a must-read for all students. It is also should be included into the list of school readings. The style and the facts are very qualitative and extraordinary and it is an example of an important history lesson, well-structured, with a very good usage of the English language. Excerpt from book: LECTURE II LIFE AFTER DEATH?-THE SOJOURN IN THE TOMB? DEATH MAKES ITS IMPRESSION ON RELIGION Among no people ancient or modern has the idea of a life beyond the grave held so prominent a place as among the ancient Egyptians. This insistent belief in a hereafter may perhaps have been, and experience in the land of Egypt has led me to believe it was, greatly favored and influenced by the fact that the conditions of soil and climate resulted in such a remarkable preservation of the human body as may be found under natural conditions nowhere else in the world. In going up to the daily task on some neighboring temple in Nubia, I was not infrequently obliged to pass through the corner of a cemetery, where the feet of a dead man, buried in a shallow grave, were now uncovered and extended directly across my path. They were precisely like the rough and calloused feet of the workmen in our excavations. How old the grave was I do not know, but any one familiar with the cemeteries of Egypt, ancient and modern, has found numerous bodies or portions of bodies indefinitely old which seemed about as well preserved as those of the living. This must have been a frequent experience of the ancient Egyptian,1 and like Hamlet with the skull of Yorick in his hands, he must often have pondered deeply as he contemplated these silent witnesses. The surprisingly perfect state of preservation in which he found his ancestors whenever the digging of a new grave disclosed them, must have greatly stimulated 1 See also Prop. G. Elliot Smith, The History of Mummification in Egypt, Proceedings of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, 1910. his belief in their continued existence, and often aroused his imagination to more detailed pictures of the realm and the life .of the mysterious departed.
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
- Author: Nesbit Edith
- Genre: Classics by Age
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a modified by Edith Nesbit collection of Shakespeare’s stories. They are changed with the intention of adapting rather sophisticated and sometimes difficult for understanding original Shakespeare’s stories to young readers so that there would be nothing unclear for any child who wants to get acquainted with works of the writer of genius.
Five Little Peppers Abroad
- Author: Sidney Margaret
- Genre: Classics by Age
The Five Little Peppers is a chain of stories narrating about the life of the Peppers during seventeen years who are not very rich and who have to work a lot but they have a wonderful spirit and a good attitude to the life. This is very special in the book. Many events take place in Five Little Peppers Abroad to the main characters Mamsie and her five children – Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie and Phronsie. Everyone in the family takes care of the other members making surprises for them. The children go to school, school, travel abroad, but no matter where they are they have a big heart and look at the life with a big smile.
Old Mother West Wind
- Author: Burgess Thornton Waldo
- Genre: Juvenile fiction
In these merry, funny stories children will meet many different kind and cute animals like Reddy Fox, Meadow Mouse, Johnny Woodchuck and many others. Almost every story about them starts when Old Mother West Wind comes from the mountains. Accompanied by her Merry Little Breezes. They played in the meadows and Old Mother West Wind helped sailors by tilling their sails.
Do you want to start your wonderful journey to this merry land?