26 títulos para "Suzeteo Enterprises"

The Nutcracker

Hoffmann, E.T.A.

Sometimes you just want to have the original.  This is one of the earliest known English translations of E.T.A. Hoffmann's classic children's tale, "Nutcracker and Mouse-King,' which was penned in German in 1816. While Alexandre Dumas, père was making this story famous i...

A Modest Proposal

JONATHAN SWIFT

Jonathan Swift thought that England's anti-poverty proposals were so outrageously evil that nothing short of an absurd parody of them would suffice.  His "Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden on their parents or country, and for mak...

Hereditary Character and Talent

Francis Galton

A half-cousin of Charles Darwin, Francis Galton was uniquely positioned to be one of the first to consider how the principles Darwin laid out in his "Origin of the Species" could be applied to the human race.  Indeed, Galton would be the one to coin the word 'eugenics.' ...

Dracula

Stoker, Bram

Bram Stoker's "Dracula: A Mystery Story" is a well-known classic that has been adapted countless times over the years. Through this edition based on the original text as published in 1897, the reader is able to take in this masterpiece as the author intended, minus all of the later flo...

Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie

"Peter Pan" is a classic tale enjoyed by children for more than 100 years, although these days, it is better known through various movie adaptions that have been made from it.  And yet, as they say, the 'book is better than the movie.' Why?  Because movie makers are notor...

The Bondage of the Will

Luther, Martin

In the early 1500s, Martin Luther was challenged by Erasmus on the topic of 'free will.' Luther's response has become a classic in Christian theology. The difficult topics that Luther and Erasmus wrangled over are still difficult today; advances in science and philosophy have only made the questi...

Natural Theology

Paley, William / Paxton, James

More than two hundred years ago, Dr. William Paley wrote a series of books that marshaled evidence for the Christian faith. His books were often required reading at major institutions of learning. Believers and unbelievers alike wrestled with Paley's arguments and his compelling presentation of th...

The Golden Bough

James George Frazer

Sir James George Frazers monumental study of magic and religion is here presented in its 1922 edition, containing all three volumes. From Rome to Egypt to Polynesia, Frazer covered it all. Corn gods, dying gods, to fertility gods; Frazer explored and examined them all, identifying common themes th...

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was one of America's greatest storytellers.  His "The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of his most well known.  This volume includes 15 of his other great stories, plus his famous poem, "The Raven."Known as one of the founders of the 'detective story'...

Eugenics and Other Evils

Chesterton, G. K.

Mr. Chesterton's long essay on eugenics and other evils was written in 1922, just a few years after the close of the 'Great War.' This war was not yet known as World War I, and it could not then be imagined that a greater calamity could be possible. Chesterton ends with the acidic observation that...

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

Sergei Nilus/Victor Emile Marsden

The general conclusion is that "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is a fraudulent fiction, but its impact and effect in the early part of the 1900s was unquestionably real. Originating in Russia, it landed in the English-speaking world where it caused great consternation. Much is made o...

The Quest of the Historical Jesus

Schweitzer, Albert

A little over a hundred years ago, Dr. Albert Schweitzer set forth the definitive survey of studies into the historical Jesus up to that point. His book, originally in German, was a major event that reverberates to this day. Even though many people will find his conclusions objectionable, the book...