Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- This is an amazing story of a man who was an incredible human being. Published after his death, Andrew Carnegie shares his thoughts, life experiences, stories, and favorite quotes. People have always associated Carnegie with libraries, rightly so, but he was so much more. He starts out in telegraphs and moves on to railroads and then on to steel and then to being one of the richest men in America. Andrew Carnegie's autobiography starts out strong. His story of his childhood in Scotland, his...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- This is an amazing story of a man who was an incredibl...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- A beautiful, young governess is hired by an English gentleman to take care of his orphaned nephew and niece, Miles and Flora. . The only big condition for her work: she will never ever bother the guy with the problems with the kids. The governess' first impression of the place was very favorable and the kids were adorable. Add to this good salary and you have practically a dream job. Some short time later it turned out that something apparently sinister exists there. An idealistic tale turns out to...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- A beautiful, young governess is hired by an English ge...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The whole self-help genre got its name from this book, published back in 1859.The milestone book is a string of biographies of high achieving people, like Newton, James Watt, Adam Smith, etc. Samuel Smiles has written a 'Gospel of success' for People which truly is timeless. Explaining the qualities which are the true glories of human character and success, he has given you one of the most important self-help books. This book highlights the remarkable features in life which are -wisdom- and...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The whole self-help genre got its name from this book,...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- This is a self help book focusing on developing character within ones self. Most of what Smiles writes about is still very relevant to today's character building. This is a great book that deals with lots of aspects in life. Samuel Smiles puts all his knowledge and wisdom in this book in which you feel you are reading -books- not one book. His arguments about the rise and fall of societies are impressive. He shows a deep understanding about the human being which gives his book a soul that will not...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- This is a self help book focusing on developing charac...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- On Liberty is a philosophical work by English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality which he conceived as a prerequisite to the higher pleasures-the summum bonum of Utilitarianism. Furthermore, Mill criticized the errors of...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- On Liberty is a philosophical work by English p...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Here, Mill offers a thorough description and defense of his moral theory, proposing the greatest happiness (-utilitarian-) principle as the unique first principle underlying all moral conduct. -The 'greatest happiness principle' holds that actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness, - he argues. Happiness, Mill defines as -pleasure itself, together with exemption from pain.- While this definition seems dubious at first, Mill...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Here, Mill offers a thorough description and defense o...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War," according to Will Kaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the stories of other characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by A...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Two men, namely Bedford and Cavor, travel to the moon in a sphere designed by Cavor. When they arrive there, they are most amazed at what they see, something like snow, plants growing at alarming rates, and strange beings called Selenites among others. The adventure actually takes place 'inside' the moon after Bedford falls into a crevice as the two explore the surface, after the 'snow' lures them out of the safety of their sphere. Well, after an entire range of adventures, including a fight...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Two men, namely Bedford and Cavor, travel to the moon ...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked on an island with Doctors Montgomery and Moreau. The former a follower of the latter, who just happens to be a mad vivisectionist. Beyond these scientists, Prendick finds himself intensely weirded out by the other inhabitants of the island, frightening man-animals created by Dr. Moreau. Moreau captures the island's animals and painfully turns them into half-men, then forces them to live by strict standards that he believes will overcome their bestial...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Edward Prendick finds himself shipwrecked on an island...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of Edwardian England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality and camaraderie, and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames Valley. In 1908, Grahame retired from his position as secretary of the Bank of England. He moved back to Berkshire, where...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel b...
