The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain

For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...

Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...

The World Almanac for Kids

by Judith S. Levey, Elaine Israel

One of the many remarkable new images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the CONE NEBULA, a huge column of...

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through.

Traditions & encounters

by Jerry H. Bentley, Herbert Ziegler

The Muqaddimah, an introduction to history

by Ibn Khaldūn, عبد الرحمن ابن خلدون Abdel Rahman Ibn Khaldun

It should be known that history, in matter of fact, is informan about human social organization, which itself is identic...

Actes and monuments

by John Foxe

In Matthew 16:18, it is recorded that Jesus told His disciples, "I will build My church, and the gates of hell [Hades] s...

Implementation of the Helsinki accords

by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

White Noise

by Don DeLillo, Mosche Hana'ami

Treaties, etc

by Rand McNally

The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Scott used to say that the worst part of an expedition was over when the preparation was finished.

The Sea-Hawk

by Rafael Sabatini

SIR OLIVER TRESSILIAN sat at his ease in the lofty dining-room of the handsome house of Penarrow, which he owed to the e...

World mythology

by Donna Rosenberg

The myths of Greece have earned universal fame and popularity.

O Jerusalem!

by Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

IN THE AFTERNOON of Saturday, November 29, 1947, in a cavernous gray building that had ounce housed an ice-skating rink,...

Middle East

by John B. Christopher

Authorizing United States funding for United Nations Middle ...

by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations.

The Modern Middle East

by James L. Gelvin

This book is about the modern Middle East.

Candida

by George Bernard Shaw

A fine morning in October 1894 in the north east quarter of London, a vast district miles away from the London of Mayfai...

Communism and nationalism in the Middle East

by Walter Laqueur