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Description While perhaps best known for his novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina , the Russian author and religious thinker Leo Tolstoy was also a prolific author of short fiction. This Standard Ebooks production compiles all of Tolstoyโs short stories and novellas written from 1852 up to his death, arranged in order of their original publication. The stories in this collection vary enormously in size and scope, from short, page-length fables composed for the education of schoolchildren, to
Description The American Crisis is a collection of articles by Thomas Paine, originally published from December 1776 to December 1783, that focus on rallying Americans during the worst years of the Revolutionary War. Paine used his deistic beliefs to galvanize the revolutionaries, for example by claiming that the British are trying to assume the powers of God and that God would support the American colonists. These articles were so influential that others began to adopt some of their more
Description Thomas Paine wrote the first part of The Rights of Man in 1791 as a response to the furious attack on the French Revolution by the British parliamentarian Edmund Burke in his pamphlet Reflections on the Revolution in France, published the previous year. Paine carefully dissects and counters Burkeโs arguments and provides a more accurate description of the events surrounding the revolution of 1789. He then reproduces and comments on the โDeclaration of the Rights of Man and of
Description Orthodoxy is G. K. Chestertonโs response to his criticsโ assertion that his earlier collection of essays, Heretics , had โmerely criticised current philosophies without offering any alternative philosophy.โ In his intellectual journey from pagan to agnostic to positivist philosopher, he had attempted to build a philosophy โsome ten minutes in advance of the truth.โ But when he compared his modern philosophy with Christian theology, he realized that he was โthe man who with the
Description Five Weeks in a Balloon tells the tale of three Englishmen who attempt to cross Africa, from east to west, in a balloon. Dr. Ferguson is the rational scientist leading the trio, accompanied by loyal sidekick Joe and the doctorโs sporting friend Kennedy. The three embark on many adventures: They encounter natives and dangerous animals, experience problems with their ballooning technology, and struggle with the winds and the weather. Throughout the novel, the author liberally
Description The popular history of William Frederick โBuffalo Billโ Cody remains more myth than anything else, yet itโs undeniable that he was a central figure in the American Old West. Pony Express rider, stagecoach driver, trapper, soldier, bison hunter, scout, showmanโhis rรฉsumรฉ reads like the quintessential record of all that makes up the Old West mythology, and itโs all documented in this, his original 1879 autobiography. While The Life of Buffalo Bill is rife with the dramatic stylings of