Deweys classic work, although tedious at times, is a cogent and landmark exposition of progressive educational theory. Democracy for Dewey was both a means and an end to the building of a good and just society. <p> In this regard he sought to develop strategies and methods for training students through learning and discipline to become socially responsible adults and conscientious citizens concerned with the rights of others and the com ...
Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Edited By Julian Hawthorne <p> This clasic collection comes highly recommended and contains the following Mystery and detective stories: <p> Rudyard Kipling: My Own True Ghost Story, The Sending Of Dana Da, In The House Of Suddhoo, His Wedded Wife <p> A. Conan Doyle: A Case Of Identity, A Scandal In Bohemia, The Red-Headed League <p> Egerton Castle: The Baron?s Quarry <p& ...
Entertainment on Every Page: Rafael Sabatini struggled for years as a writer before striking it big with his fabulous historical fiction stories. His breakthrough, according to the elaborate introduction written by Gary Hoppenstand, came with Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution in 1921. Immediately following this novel was Captain Blood: An Odyssey. These two books alone sealed Sabatinis success with an audience hungry for adventure ...
We all know Charles Darwin as a scholarly bearded old English gentleman, and like Leonardo da Vinci, Darwin has this image defining him for all future generations. Even though most everyone knows Darwin spent five years traveling the oceans on the HMS Beagle, the image of a young dynamic Darwin never takes over. Reading this book will change this. <p> Darwin sailed on the Beagle, a small three-mast sailing ship, and circumnavigated the g ...
The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs is the second volume in the Tarzan series. First published in 1913, this book is a work of genius. There is something about Burroughs writing that is captivating, and this book is no exception. The Return of Tarzan is a highly entertaining volume. <p> The book first starts with Tarzan on a ship going from New York to France. On this trip, he makes friends with a Countess and makes an enemy wit ...
If you want to read truly great literature of such a standard that earned John Galsworthy a Nobel Prize for Literature, you need look no further than The Forsyte Saga. <p> The writing evident in this epic is masterful and engaging: it is even and substantive and elegant. The rich irony about the lengths that men strive to acquire property in all its forms and then find their acquisitions useless, meaningless and certainly not worth the ...
Every now and then certain turns of phrase or glimpses of landscapes in special light or just buried memories of poetic lines surface and send us back to the source for more. So often that source for this reader is TS Eliot and encountering this wondrous collection of his poems written between 1909 and 1962 reinforces the power of this great man of letters. <p> This collection includes the major poems, those works that impacted our phil ...
A towering achievement of English literature: This has to be my favorite of all Thomas Hardys many classic works. Far from the Madding Crowd was published in 1874 when the novelist was 34 years old. It is one of the earliest works of English literature I can think of which has a fully rounded, fully independent, fully human female protagonist. Bathsheba Everdene runs a farm, is only semi-aware of her own extraordinary beauty, and is pursued by t ...
These stories translated in this volume are really superb. The translation is high quality beautiful English expression, it captures the mood and the ideas of Chekhov perfectly. <p> I bought this book solely because of the movie The Reader. Ive gotta say I really like this book. It touches my heart. Good translation too! <p> An awesome book by one of the greatest short story writers in world literature! <p> This is a h ...
