Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeares Henry V forms the final installment of a tetralogy of plays which includes Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry IV, Part II. The play focuses on the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years War. Henry, who is introduced in the earlier plays as a wild and undisciplined youth, has now come of age and ascended t...

American journalist and satirist Ambrose Bierce is one of the most famous and fascinating figures in all of American literature. He led an adventurous and eventful life, beginning with his birth in a log cabin, to his time as a Civil War soldier, followed by his career as an author and journalist, to finally his mysterious disappearance during the Mexican Revolution at age 71. Bierce is perhaps be...

Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeares Henry V forms the final installment of a tetralogy of plays which includes Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry IV, Part II. The play focuses on the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years War. Henry, who is introduced in the earlier plays as a wild and undisciplined youth, has now come of age and ascended t...

Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeares Henry V forms the final installment of a tetralogy of plays which includes Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry IV, Part II. The play focuses on the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years War. Henry, who is introduced in the earlier plays as a wild and undisciplined youth, has now come of age and ascended t...

Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeares Henry V forms the final installment of a tetralogy of plays which includes Richard II, Henry IV, Part I, and Henry IV, Part II. The play focuses on the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years War. Henry, who is introduced in the earlier plays as a wild and undisciplined youth, has now come of age and ascended t...

One of the more important works of the ancient Greek writer, soldier, and historian Xenophon, Hellenica is essentially a history of Greek occurrences from 411 to 362 BCE. It continues a similar account begun by Thucydides to detail the events of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon is the principal source for todays historians on the last seven years of this war, including the Battle of Mantineia, as w...

One of the more important works of the ancient Greek writer, soldier, and historian Xenophon, Hellenica is essentially a history of Greek occurrences from 411 to 362 BCE. It continues a similar account begun by Thucydides to detail the events of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon is the principal source for todays historians on the last seven years of this war, including the Battle of Mantineia, as w...

One of the more important works of the ancient Greek writer, soldier, and historian Xenophon, Hellenica is essentially a history of Greek occurrences from 411 to 362 BCE. It continues a similar account begun by Thucydides to detail the events of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon is the principal source for todays historians on the last seven years of this war, including the Battle of Mantineia, as w...

One of the more important works of the ancient Greek writer, soldier, and historian Xenophon, Hellenica is essentially a history of Greek occurrences from 411 to 362 BCE. It continues a similar account begun by Thucydides to detail the events of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon is the principal source for todays historians on the last seven years of this war, including the Battle of Mantineia, as w...

A poet, novelist, pacifist and mystic, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) spent her life deeply immersed in the things she wrote about. At first an agnostic, Underhill became drawn to Catholicism, though her husband, a Protestant, tried to dissuade her. Instead of taking the traditional Christocentric view held by most Anglo-Catholics, Underhill gravitated toward a more intellectual side of religion. Wi...

One of the more important works of the ancient Greek writer, soldier, and historian Xenophon, Hellenica is essentially a history of Greek occurrences from 411 to 362 BCE. It continues a similar account begun by Thucydides to detail the events of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon is the principal source for todays historians on the last seven years of this war, including the Battle of Mantineia, as w...

One of the more important works of the ancient Greek writer, soldier, and historian Xenophon, Hellenica is essentially a history of Greek occurrences from 411 to 362 BCE. It continues a similar account begun by Thucydides to detail the events of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon is the principal source for todays historians on the last seven years of this war, including the Battle of Mantineia, as w...

A poet, novelist, pacifist and mystic, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) spent her life deeply immersed in the things she wrote about. At first an agnostic, Underhill became drawn to Catholicism, though her husband, a Protestant, tried to dissuade her. Instead of taking the traditional Christocentric view held by most Anglo-Catholics, Underhill gravitated toward a more intellectual side of religion. Wi...

A poet, novelist, pacifist and mystic, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) spent her life deeply immersed in the things she wrote about. At first an agnostic, Underhill became drawn to Catholicism, though her husband, a Protestant, tried to dissuade her. Instead of taking the traditional Christocentric view held by most Anglo-Catholics, Underhill gravitated toward a more intellectual side of religion. Wi...

A poet, novelist, pacifist and mystic, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) spent her life deeply immersed in the things she wrote about. At first an agnostic, Underhill became drawn to Catholicism, though her husband, a Protestant, tried to dissuade her. Instead of taking the traditional Christocentric view held by most Anglo-Catholics, Underhill gravitated toward a more intellectual side of religion. Wi...

One of the more important works of the ancient Greek writer, soldier, and historian Xenophon, Hellenica is essentially a history of Greek occurrences from 411 to 362 BCE. It continues a similar account begun by Thucydides to detail the events of the Peloponnesian War. Xenophon is the principal source for todays historians on the last seven years of this war, including the Battle of Mantineia, as w...

A poet, novelist, pacifist and mystic, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) spent her life deeply immersed in the things she wrote about. At first an agnostic, Underhill became drawn to Catholicism, though her husband, a Protestant, tried to dissuade her. Instead of taking the traditional Christocentric view held by most Anglo-Catholics, Underhill gravitated toward a more intellectual side of religion. Wi...

A poet, novelist, pacifist and mystic, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) spent her life deeply immersed in the things she wrote about. At first an agnostic, Underhill became drawn to Catholicism, though her husband, a Protestant, tried to dissuade her. Instead of taking the traditional Christocentric view held by most Anglo-Catholics, Underhill gravitated toward a more intellectual side of religion. Wi...

A poet, novelist, pacifist and mystic, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) spent her life deeply immersed in the things she wrote about. At first an agnostic, Underhill became drawn to Catholicism, though her husband, a Protestant, tried to dissuade her. Instead of taking the traditional Christocentric view held by most Anglo-Catholics, Underhill gravitated toward a more intellectual side of religion. Wi...

A poet, novelist, pacifist and mystic, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) spent her life deeply immersed in the things she wrote about. At first an agnostic, Underhill became drawn to Catholicism, though her husband, a Protestant, tried to dissuade her. Instead of taking the traditional Christocentric view held by most Anglo-Catholics, Underhill gravitated toward a more intellectual side of religion. Wi...

A poet, novelist, pacifist and mystic, Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) spent her life deeply immersed in the things she wrote about. At first an agnostic, Underhill became drawn to Catholicism, though her husband, a Protestant, tried to dissuade her. Instead of taking the traditional Christocentric view held by most Anglo-Catholics, Underhill gravitated toward a more intellectual side of religion. Wi...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is without a doubt one of the most well-known and influential scientists in history; he made incalculable contributions to the fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and theology. From 1670 to 1672, Newton lectured on optics while developing his theory of color. This led to his invention of the refracting telescope in 1672, which would correct chromatic ...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is without a doubt one of the most well-known and influential scientists in history; he made incalculable contributions to the fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and theology. From 1670 to 1672, Newton lectured on optics while developing his theory of color. This led to his invention of the refracting telescope in 1672, which would correct chromatic ...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is without a doubt one of the most well-known and influential scientists in history; he made incalculable contributions to the fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and theology. From 1670 to 1672, Newton lectured on optics while developing his theory of color. This led to his invention of the refracting telescope in 1672, which would correct chromatic ...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is without a doubt one of the most well-known and influential scientists in history; he made incalculable contributions to the fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and theology. From 1670 to 1672, Newton lectured on optics while developing his theory of color. This led to his invention of the refracting telescope in 1672, which would correct chromatic ...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is without a doubt one of the most well-known and influential scientists in history; he made incalculable contributions to the fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and theology. From 1670 to 1672, Newton lectured on optics while developing his theory of color. This led to his invention of the refracting telescope in 1672, which would correct chromatic ...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is without a doubt one of the most well-known and influential scientists in history; he made incalculable contributions to the fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and theology. From 1670 to 1672, Newton lectured on optics while developing his theory of color. This led to his invention of the refracting telescope in 1672, which would correct chromatic ...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is without a doubt one of the most well-known and influential scientists in history; he made incalculable contributions to the fields of physics, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and theology. From 1670 to 1672, Newton lectured on optics while developing his theory of color. This led to his invention of the refracting telescope in 1672, which would correct chromatic ...

First published in 1918, The Serpent Power is an important and influential text for the modern practice of Kundalini yoga in the West. Written by Sir John George Woodroffe, under his pseudonym Arthur Avalon, it is a scholarly and insightful study of both ancient texts and the philosophies of Kundalini, Shakti, meditation, and yogic practice. Woodroffe was born in Calcutta, India and followed in hi...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1922, Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of 11 short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Many of the stories had appeared in magazines such as Colliers, Vanity Fair, and the Saturday Evening Post before they were included in this collection. Many of the themes that are found in Fitzgeralds other famous works can be found in these stories as well: the disparity between the wealthy...

First published in 1907, Lord of the World is the dystopian work of science fiction by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson which depicts the rise of the Anti-Christ and the ensuing end of the world. The novel begins with a prologue set in early 21st century London in which the history of the last century is described. A global rise of Marxism has divided the world up into three power-blocs; a European Co...

Considered one of the greatest short story writers of her generation, Katherine Mansfield was a prolific and modern writer from New Zealand. Born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, Mansfields family was socially prominent and well-off. She moved to England for the first time at age 15 to attend Queens College with her sisters. Mansfield developed a life-long love for...

First published in 1907, Lord of the World is the dystopian work of science fiction by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson which depicts the rise of the Anti-Christ and the ensuing end of the world. The novel begins with a prologue set in early 21st century London in which the history of the last century is described. A global rise of Marxism has divided the world up into three power-blocs; a European Co...