Volume 1 of 2. This book is written only for those sincere and open-minded folk who want to know the real and living facts that his wife can tell. So unusual a man should be honored with an unusual biography, and Mrs. London's is bound to be frank beyond the ordinary, since she approached it with frankness. She did not minimize the criticism to which she subjected herself, but her philosophy was of a sort that transcended fear on this score. Jack ...

Volume 2 of 2. In this autobiography, Mark Twain is speaking from the grave, literally. He would not allow the book to be published until after his death, so that he could speak freely, as in a love letter. In the manner in which Twain is so well-known, his autobiography is really not an autobiography at all, but a series of entertaining stories and opinions, dinner table talks, such as he had always delivered in his own home and elsewhere, and ...

Volume 2 of 2. This book is written only for those sincere and open-minded folk who want to know the real and living facts that his wife can tell. So unusual a man should be honored with an unusual biography, and Mrs. London's is bound to be frank beyond the ordinary, since she approached it with frankness. She did not minimize the criticism to which she subjected herself, but her philosophy was of a sort that transcended fear on this score. Jack ...

Volume 2 of 2. These volumes present a biographical account of the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the greatest English romantic poets. Percy's life was singularly interesting and diverse. His friends unanimously testify that his character was one of gentleness, purity, generosity and strong affection. As a poet, he stands in the front rank and in some of his shorter poems he is unsurpassed. During his short, but wholly eventful ...

From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for drama comes an enormously accomplished and original debut novel about a down-on-their-luck black family in 1960s Texas in search of the storied jewels buried with one of their relatives. ...

The following, to a certain extent, are composite histories. At present our knowledge of the life of the individual wild animal is too limited to admit of anything else; but the incidents related are all founded on fact, and Redpad, Grimalkin, and the rest actually lived, although here they are sometimes credited with adventures which in reality befell others of their race. Wonderfully illustrated throughout. ...

Emerson dealt severely with his biographer. With full knowledge that his history must be written, he thought fit to lead a life devoid of incident, of nearly untroubled happiness, and of absolute conformity to the moral law. His correspondence is seldom very interesting, and his diary is out of reach. The injured biographer must rely on whatever charm may attach to the not frequent figure of one who lived as he wrote. ...

Now and then amazing things are done on this great stage of ours: lights go down; the back drop, which had given the illusion of solidity, reveals itself transparent. A sort of fairyland transformation takes place. Beyond the once solid wall strange figures move on -- a new mise en sc?ne, with the old blotted out in darkness. The lady, whom we left knitting by the fire, becomes a fairy -- Sara Lee became a fairy, of a sort -- and meets the ...

A gripping narrative of the persecution of one of Russian literature's brightest poets during the Stalin era. The Death of a Poet is a harrowing account of how the forces of fate combined to destroy the life of one of twentieth-century Russian literature's most talented and esteemed poets during the bloodiest period of Stalin's regime. In 1937, at the height of her creative powers and living comfortably in exile in Paris, Marina Tsvetaeva made ...

As THE BEASTS OF TARZAN begins, Tarzan -- as Lord Greystoke -- is settled in civilized London. But two of his enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and henchman Alexis Paulvitch, are on his trail. The pair abducts Jane -- and Tarzan's son, Jack. Tarzan himself is stranded on a desert island, but with the help of Sheeta the panther and Akut the great ape he makes it back to the mainland. There he meets Mugambi, the giant chief of the Wagambi tribe, who becomes ...