Humanities and Arts eBooks
The Industrial Arts in Spain
Humanities and Arts, by Juan F RianoThis Volume, forming one of the Series of Art Handbooks issued under the authority of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, has been prepared by Señor Juan F. Riaño, of Madrid, whose Catalogue of Art Objects of Spanish production in the South Kensington Museum, issued in 1872, has proved of great value and interest.
The Island of Sheep
Humanities and Arts, by John BuchanThe Island of Sheep (1936) is a novel by John Buchan. It is part of the series featuring Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot.
The Lingering Clasp of the Hand
Humanities and Arts, by Geoffrey ClarkeSunday, 19 October 2008 CO PARTNERSHIP CO PARTNERSHIP Co-partnership and an alternative writing of chapters were the hallmark of the balance of elemental forces which worked between Haggard and another of his collaborators, Andrew Lang. Apart from their collaboration on The World's Desire, the two writers had been in correspondence with each other since the date of the...
The Magic City
Humanities and Arts, by Edith NesbitAn extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
The Marble Faun
Humanities and Arts, by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance, and possibly one of the strangest major works of American fiction. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. The climax comes less than halfway through the story, and Hawthorne intentionally fails to answer many...
The Miller's Daughter
Humanities and Arts, by Emile ZolaAt dawn a clamor of voices shook the mill. Pere Merlier opened the door of Francoise's chamber. She went down into the courtyard, pale and very calm. But there she could not repress a shiver as she saw the corpse of a Prussian soldier stretched out on a cloak beside the well.
THE Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Humanities and Arts, by EM BerensThe Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Humanities and Arts, by Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly-unchanged London in 1984. Though the novel deals with the future, it concentrates not on technology nor on totalitarian government but on a government where no one cares what happens, comparable to Fahrenheit 451 in that respect. The dreary succession of randomly selected Kings of England is broken up...
The new arabian nights
Humanities and Arts, by Robert Louis StevensonStevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894) - Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist, best known for his adventure stories. Stevenson was a sickly man (he died of tuberculosis) who nevertheless led an adventurous life. He spent his last five years on the island of Samoa as a planter and chief of the natives. The New Arabian Nights (1882) - A collection of tales including “The Suicide Club,” “The...
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