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A collection of Turkish fables, Ottoman poems, and other Turkish literature, including History of the Forty Viziers from the early 15th century and Muhammed Fasli's poetic version of the Persian myth, The Rose and the Nightingale.
A collection of four classic works on utopian societies: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), On the Social Contract; Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), Utopia; Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), New Atlantis; and Tommaso Campanella (1568--1639), City of the Sun.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, linguist writer, and spy. He was known for his travels and explorations as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. Burton is best-known for traveling in disguise to Mecca, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and bringing the Kama Sutra to publication in English.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, linguist writer, and spy. He was known for his travels and explorations as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. Burton is best-known for traveling in disguise to Mecca, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and bringing the Kama Sutra to publication in English.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, linguist writer, and spy. He was known for his travels and explorations as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. Burton is best-known for traveling in disguise to Mecca, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and bringing the Kama Sutra to publication in English.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, linguist writer, and spy. He was known for his travels and explorations as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. Burton is best-known for traveling in disguise to Mecca, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and bringing the Kama Sutra to publication in English.
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a British geographer, explorer, translator, linguist writer, and spy. He was known for his travels and explorations as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. Burton is best-known for traveling in disguise to Mecca, an unexpurgated translation of One Thousand and One Nights, and bringing the Kama Sutra to publication in English.
Peter Andreas Munch (1810-1863) was a Norwegian historian, known for his work on the medieval history of Norway. His scholarship included Norwegian archaeology, geography, ethnography, linguistics, and jurisprudence. Munch is noted for his Norse Legendary saga translations.
Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 BCE) was a Roman poet and philosopher whose only known work is an epic philosophical poem laying out the beliefs of Epicureanism, De rerum natura, translated into English as On the Nature of Things
Thomas S. Kepler (1897-1963) taught New Testament at Oberlin College and wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column on religious issues. Credo is one of three books published for the Methodist student movement in the 1940s.
Thomas Arthur Smoot (1871-1937) was a Methodist minister and educator. The Standard of Pitch in Religion analogizes human traits and music, "Finding those sweet overtones in lives where chaos reigns, and making them stand out with a firmness and distinctness that shall turn them into fundamentals" of honesty and goodness.
Arthur Stringer was a Canadian author and screenwriter known for his versatility across genres, including crime fiction, adventure, and romance. With a prolific career spanning the early to mid-20th century, Stringer wrote both novels and short stories, often weaving suspenseful plots with rich character development. His works, such as The Woman Who Couldn't Die and The Shadow, are notable for their inventive twists and exploration of human psychology. Stringer's contributions to pulp fiction and early Hollywood screenwriting made him a notable figure in popular literature and film during his time.
Margaret White Eggleston (Mrs. George Owen) was an Instructor in Story Telling at Boston University's School of Religious Education and Social Service.
Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) was a Norwegian author and winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hamsun is best known for the 1890 psychological novel Hunger. Hamsun became a vocal advocate of the Nazis before the war and after the Nazi occupation of Norway, so much so that he mailed his Nobel medal to Joseph Geobbels in 1943.
George William Pease (1862-) wrote curriculum guides for Bible and Sunday schools in the early 1900s.
Rev. Dr. William Riley Benham (1839-1901) was a Methodist minister and professor in New York State. This volume of selected sermons is dedicated "In grateful memory of a loving heart, a great soul, and a noble life."
Edwin B. Chappell, D. Div., (1853-?) was the Sunday school editor for the Methodist Episcopal Church South, best known for his 1916 Studies in the Life of John Wesley. As early as 1935, Dr. Chappell championed the need for Christian education to be based, not on theological presuppositions, but on the new psychology of religion and the scientific approaches to human nature.
Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1867-1947), American journalist, author, editor, and suffragist, is now remembered primarily for her relationship with Henry James, especially for recruiting him to participate in the round-robin novel The Whole Family. She was editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913.
Hugh Noel Williams wrote dozens of books chronicling the lives and loves of famous, historical European women, including the Bonaparte women, Madame du Barry, and Madame de Pompadour.
Archibald Wilberforce's Nations of the World: Spain and Her Colonies (1908) offers a comprehensive history of Spain from its roots to the Spanish-American War of 1898. Compiled "from the best authorities," the book covers Spain's rise to imperial power, its colonial ventures, and the eventual decline of its empire. Wilberforce provides a detailed account of Spain's influence on global history, shedding light on its complex legacy in Europe and the Americas.
Joel Chandler Harris (1845-1908) was an American journalist, fiction writer, and folklorist best known for his collection of stories of Uncle Remus. fictional narrator of a collection of African American folktales.
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