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Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

by Michael W. Perry

In the second decade of the twentieth century, an idea became all too fashionable among those who feel it is their right to set social trends. Wealthy families took it on as a pet cause, generously bankrolling its research. The New York Times praised it as a wonderful "new science." Scientists, such as the brilliant plant biologist, Luther Burbank, praised it unashamedly. Educators as prominent as Charles... (more)

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

There are few more convincing, less sentimental accounts of love than Wuthering Heights. This is the story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor, and of the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other.

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa... (more)

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

With a new introduction by Monica Ali The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later, after a chance meeting, Bendix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.

The Third Woman: The Secret Passion That Inspired the End of the Affair

The Third Woman: The Secret Passion That Inspired the End of the Affair

by William Cash

This is the enthralling true story of the novelist Graham Greene and the woman who splintered his heart in one of the twentieth century's epic romances. In December 1946, on a snow-covered airfield in East Anglia, the English novelist Graham Greene fell in love with Catherine Walston, the beautiful American wife of an immensely rich gentleman farmer. Their affair lasted nearly fifteen years, until 1961, but... (more)

The Everlasting Man

by G. K. Chesterton

"I read Chesterton's Everlasting Man and for the first time saw the whole Christian outline of history set out in a form that seemed to me to make sense..." -C.S. Lewis in Surprised by Joy "G. K. Chesterton routinely ignites more ideas per page than any Christian author of the twentieth century, with the possible exception of C. S. Lewis. Chesterton sometimes overstates, often maddens, and invariably provokes... (more)

The Uses of Diversity a Book of Essays

by G. K. Chesterton

1921. G.K. Chesterton was a journalist, poet, novelist, playwright, debater, and Catholic apologist in the early twentieth century. Contents: On Seriousness; Lamp-Posts; The Spirits; Tennyson; The Domesticity of Detectives; George Meredith; The Irishman; Ireland and the Domestic Drama; The Japanese; Christian Science; The Lawlessness of Lawyers; Our Latin Relations; On Pigs as Pets; The Romance of Rostand; Wishes;... (more)

The Ballad of the White Horse

by G.K. Chesterton

British writer GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874-1936) expounded prolifically about his wide-ranging philosophies-he is impossible to categorize as "liberal" or "conservative," for instance-across a wide variety of avenues: he was a literary critic, historian, playwright, novelist, columnist, and poet. His witty, humorous style earned him the title of the "prince of paradox," and his works-80 books and nearly 4,000... (more)

With the Battle Cruisers (Classics of Naval Literature)

With the Battle Cruisers (Classics of Naval Literature)

by Filson Young

Of the half-great men, or great half-men, of our time, in whom lack of scruple in the pursuit of large ends is held to be a positive virtue, Lord Fisher was probably as the near the whole man as any; and this story may as well begin with him . . . This is the arresting opening to With the Battle cruisers, Filson Young's unique account of life inside the Grand Fleet. Young's connections with the Liberal... (more)

A Room with a View and Howard's End

by E. M. Forster

'To me,' D. H. Lawerence once wrote to E. M. forster, 'you are the last Englishman.' Indeed, Forster's novels offer contemporary readers clear, vibrant portraits of life in Edwardian England. Published in 1908 to both critical and popular acclaim, A Room with a View is a whimsical comedy of manners that owes more to Jane Austen that perhaps any other of his works. The central character is a muddled young girl... (more)

Of Merchants and Heroes

by Paul Waters

A consuming story of love, loss and redemption set in the classical world of Rome and Greece, "Of Merchants & Heroes" is the story of a young man's pursuit of his father's murderer and of the values and qualities he develops that will make him a man ...a man capable of a deep, noble and enduring love. At the end of the third century BC, as Republican Rome's long war with Carthage was at last drawing to a... (more)

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

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Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

by Michael W. Perry

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

The Third Woman: The Secret Passion That Inspired the End of the Affair

by William Cash

The Everlasting Man

by G. K. Chesterton

The Uses of Diversity a Book of Essays

by G. K. Chesterton

The Ballad of the White Horse

by G.K. Chesterton

With the Battle Cruisers (Classics of Naval Literature)

by Filson Young

A Room with a View and Howard's End

by E. M. Forster

Of Merchants and Heroes

by Paul Waters

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

Brighton Rock

by Graham Greene