When circumstances threaten to undermine a dog’s faith in the perilous days of the 19th century’s Gold Rush, while seeing a sled dog’s function in Canada’s icy Yukon, an ancestral disposition of a domesticated and pampered dog reemerges. Book Excerpt He was a feeble, severely enraged creature with flickering eyes. When the train was signaled … Read more
The timeless tale of Huck and his companion Jim, a fugitive slave, as they embark on a captivating adventure down the Mississippi River, symbolizes the pursuit of liberation and emancipation in American literature. Mark Twain’s novel, although reflecting a bygone era, caused quite a stir upon its release and continues to provoke controversy in present … Read more
One of the world’s most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League’s purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism’s potential … Read more
Experience the captivating world of Scheherazade, a courageous Sassanid Queen who uses her storytelling prowess to survive impending doom. In this medieval Middle-Eastern epic, she weaves a tapestry of tales, each ending with a cliffhanger that compels the malevolent King to spare her life for another day. These stories, crafted over centuries by diverse authors, … Read more
A delight for a public which enjoys incident, mystery, and above all that matching of the wits of a clever man against the dumb resistance of the secrecy of inanimate things, which results in the triumph of the human intelligence. To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention … Read more