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An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

by Albert Tobias Clay

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic is co-authored by Talmudic scholar Marcus Jastrow and American archaeologist Albert Tobias Clay. The Gilgamesh Epic is the most notable literary product of Babylonia as yet discovered in the mounds of Mesopotamia. It recounts the exploits and adventures of a favorite hero, and in its final form cov..

Studies in the Psychology of Sex -  Volume I

Studies in the Psychology of Sex - Volume I

by Henry Havelock Ellis

Studies in the Psychology of Sex is a multiple volume text written by the British physician Henry Havelock Ellis, who has been an influential force in the psychoanalysis studies through his introduction of notions such as auto-eroticism, and narcissism. The first textbook on homosexuality has been co-authored by him, which deals with transgender..

The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island

by Jules Verne

The Mysterious Island is a science fiction novel written by the French novelist Jules Verne, and the story has secondary characters from his earlier pirate fiction works of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways. During the civil war five union soldiers who were captives in the rebellion prison escapes by hijacking ..

Beethoven's Letters

Beethoven's Letters

by Lady Wallace

Beethoven's Letters is a compilation of letters written by Ludwig van Beethoven, the great composer and pianist from Germany. This book is divided into three parts categorized by the year in which the letters written. Beethoven has written about 475 letters to various persons and organizations between the years 1783 to 1827.  This letters h..

Cautionary Tales for Children

Cautionary Tales for Children

by Hilaire Belloc

Cautionary Tales for Children is a parody of 19th century cautionary tales, written by the Anglo-French writer Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc, who has written many comic verses for children. His notable work other than this book is The Bad Child's Book of Beasts.   Cautionary Tales is a folklore, in which the narration begins after stati..

De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries

De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries

by Julius Caesar

"De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries is the narrative of the historical Gallic Wars and The civil war written by Gaius Julius Caesar, who was a Roman general and Latin Prose writer. Though there are debates on his other writing, he has been attributed to the war narrative books such as On the Alexandrine War, On the African War, and On the His..

American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt

American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt

by Edward Stratemeyer

American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt is a biographical work of the 26th American president’s childhood life written by the American writer Edward Stratemeyer, remembered for his juveniles’ fiction series The Bobbsey Twins, The Rover Boys, The Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and Nancy Drew series. In this biography Stratemeyer narrates how a sick chi..

The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln

The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln

by Wayne Whipple

The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln is the biography of the great leader written by Wayne Whipple. This biography narrates the chronological events of the young Lincoln starting from the trace of his forefathers and moves toward his parents, school teacher, Childhood friends, and his siblings, influential persons he met and ends up how he became the..