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It was one of the most exciting periods in history. The impact of Gutenberg books was starting to be felt. Martin Luther was soon to touch-off the Reformation; and a wild-eyed adventurer by the name of Christopher Columbus was about to make obsolete every world map of his day. This is the story of Columbus, but it is not told through the eyes of an academic or an historian. It is told by a simple sailor-a Christian of secret Jewish ancestry-whose hopes and fears not only makes the story more engaging, but all the more realistic. From the fear and confusion of the first voyage, to the clash of the European and native American cultures, to Columbus' final vindication, Mary Johnston's talent for combining adventure and historical detail is at its finest. Everyone knows the story of Christopher Columbus, now read it from a whole new-and enormously refreshing-perspective. "We have come to expect first-rate writing from Mary Johnston; but what surprises is the sheer emotional power of the book."

Product Description: The 30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, by Mark Twain Includes: Complete Bibliography of Mark Twain, 100 Quotes of Mark Twain, Bio of Mark Twain, Stories included are: The $30,000 Bequest, A Dog's Tale, Was It Heaven? Or Hell?, A Cure for the Blues, The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant, The Californian's Tale, A Helpless Situation, A Telephonic Conversation, Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale, The Five Boons of Life, The First Writing Machines, Italian Without a Master, Italian With Grammar, A Burlesque Biography, How To Tell A Story, General Washington's Negro Body-Servant, Wit Inspirations of the "Two Year-Olds", An Entertaining Article, A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, Amended Obituaries, A Monument to Adam, A Humane Word from Satan, Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English", Advice to Little Girls, Post-Mortem Poetry, The Danger of Lying in Bed, Portrait of King William III, Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?, Extracts from Adam's Diary, Eve's Diar...read more

Product Description: There is probably no one writing to-day who has so well caught the trick of this particular sort of pseudo-history, in which real personages and real events are so dexterously interwoven with a tissue of purely imaginary happenings, and the causes of great international crises attributed to the audacious intrigues of some charming adventurers invented expressly for the occasion, as Mr...read more

"[...]we do; and that's a mistake. He must not go down, in future, until we come back." Chapman gave a slight shrug of the shoulders. There was no doubt about it, the Lord of the Cape was becoming a trifle eccentric, with those incomprehensible fears of his. What risk can you run in an hotel, especially when you carry no valuables, no important sum of money on you or with you? They heard the hall-door opening. It was Edwards. Mr. Kesselbach called him:[...]".

Product Description: Aaron Sisson, union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He is also a talented amateur flautist, and after walking out on his wife and two children Aaron impusively decides to visit Italy to pursue his dream of becoming a professional musician...read more

Product Description: Aaron Sisson, union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, is trapped in a stale marriage. He is also a talented amateur flautist, and after walking out on his wife and two children Aaron impusively decides to visit Italy to pursue his dream of becoming a professional musician...read more

Product Description: From the Introductory by Francis Jenkinson: The Abbey of the Holy Ghost was printed by Wynkyn de Worde at Westminster at least twice in the fifteenth century. Of the earlier edition, issued about 1496, three copies are known; one of them, in the British Museum, wants the first leaf: another is that which is here reproduced in facsimile...read more

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I sit down to perform my promise of giving you an account of a visit made many years since to Abbotsford. I hope, however, that you do not expect much from me, for the travelling notes taken at the time are so scanty and vague, and my memory so extremely fallacious, that I fear I shall disappoint you with the meagreness and crudeness of my details. Late in the evening of August 29, 1817, I arrived at the ancient little border town of Selkirk, where I put up for the night. I had come down from Edinburgh, partly to visit Melrose Abbey and its vicinity, but chiefly to get sight of the "mighty minstrel of the north." I had a letter of introduction to him from Thomas Campbell, the poet, and had reason to think, from the interest he had taken in some of my earlier scribblings, that a visit from me would not be deemed an intrusion. On the following morning, after an early breakfast, I set off in a postchaise for the Abbey. On the way thither I stopped at the gate of Abbotsford, and sent the postilion to the house with the letter of introduction and my card, on which I had written that I was on my way to the ruins of Melrose Abbey, and wished to know whether it would be agreeable to Mr. Scott (he had not yet been made a Baronet) to receive a visit from me in the course of the morning.