The Dickens 1859 classic historical novel.

On May 6th, 1945, soldiers of the US Army occupied the Heinrich Himmler family home in Gmund, Germany where they discovered hundreds o...

A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The tales&n...

H.G. Wells' classic study in the progress and history of civilization from the origins of life on Earth up to historic developments in...

Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, examines the meaning, evolution, and role of culture in civil socie...

Introduces the interior life of George Orwell, the writer who defined twentieth-century political thought. Written as individual books...

This collection of 85 essays and articles is considered to be among the most important historical collections of all time, and we...

In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall conducted an experiment that determined the human soul has mass weighing in at 21 grams. But what ...

Previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this is a fun, entertaining story about a mysterious stranger who shows up at a famil...

Brief biographies and illustrations of famous painters from Michelangelo to Van Gogh and Rembrandt to Picasso. Features fully vow...

Translated from the Norwegian and with a movie by the same name that was nominated for an Oscar, this is an eccentric and truly funny ...

Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, is a French writer of Russian birth.  Originally published in the 19th century, Segur'...

The New York Times Bestseller by musician and artist George Watsky is available here in German.  This is his debut memoir, writte...

Eritrea is under Ethopian occupation and there's to be a revolution. The enslaved and followers who dream of freedom will rise up unde...

A modern-day printing of the original text of Antoine Galland's first European translation of One Thousand and One Nights. The story o...