A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the Irish princess who meet by deception, fall in love by magic, and pursue that love in defiance of heavenly and earthly law has inspired artists from Matthew Arnold to Richard Wagner. But nowhere has it been retold with greater eloquence and dignity than in Joseph Bedier's edition, which weaves several medieval sources into a seamless whole, elegantly...

Cautionary Tales are traditional folklore stories used to teach children of dangers. Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales have been warning children from danger for over a hundred years. This Book also includes three more of Belloc's works, A Moral Alphabet, A Bad Child's Book of Beasts and More Beasts for Worse Children.

Belloc cited the many beliefs and theological principles which Islam shares with Catholicism. Where Islam decisively diverges from Catholicism (and Christianity in general) is the "denial of the Incarnation and all the sacramental life of the Church that followed from it." In The Great Heresies Belloc grouped the Protestant Reformation together with Islam as one of the major heresies threatening the "Church Universal."

The European history is explained by Belloc, who addresses the influence of peoples and religions, mainly the catholic religion, in the history of the continent.

A much-loved classic for children and adults alike since 1939, this collection of poems is a truly unforgettable book of moral instruction - with 381 inspiring pictures.

"From the Hardcover edition."

This is a book of comic verse of Awful Warnings about the consequences of Bad Behaviour, such as Henry King chewing string. Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years, they were first published in 1907.

This book is written to maintain and prove the following truth: That our free modern society, in which the means of production are owned by a few being necessarily in unstable equilibrium, it is tending to reach a condition of stable equilibrium BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COMPULSORY LABOUR LEGALLY ENFORCIBLE UPON THOSE WHO DO NOT OWN THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION FOR THE ADVANTAGE OF THOSE WHO DO. With this principle of compulsion applied against the non-owners there must also come a difference in their status; and in the eyes of society and of its positive law men will be divided into two sets: the...

Tells the classic cautionary tale of Jim: who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion. This title offers a darkly comic, word of warning about the dangers of being spoiled that is the perfect tongue-in-cheek corrective for little ones who have been a little overindulged.