A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was both a celebrated poet and the foremost classicist of his day. His poetry was set to music by numerous composers including Arthur Somervell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland and Samuel Barber. Housman's painstaking vocation, to restore classical manuscripts by correcting textual errors, took up virtually the whole of his working life. A seemingly inaccessible, aloof man, he never set out tobe a professional poet, yet poetry ...

Nelson's naval glory, public fame, charismatic leadership, scandalous romance, and untimely death as he led the British to victory at the Battle of Trafalgar have ensured his enduring position as England's favorite hero. This engaging, full-length biography of Nelson (17581805) presents a gripping account of his career and climb to fame interwoven with the fascinating details of his personal and emotional life.A man of contradictions, Nelson emerges in this biography as a r...

Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, (19 August 1857 – 1 November 1941) was one of the foremost interwar British politicians, also a diplomat, art collector and author. He was appointed ambassador to Germany between 1920 and 1925 and was a leading figure in rehabilitating Germany and subsequently championing the policy of appeasement.Contains 24 appreciations of people: The Earl of Cromer, The Marquess Curzon, D. Lloyd George, The Earl of Balfour, J. Ramsay MacDonald, Winston Chur...

Originally published in 1929, in this first volume in a series of three, The Right Honourable Viscount D'Abernon aims to illustrate "the early phases through which negotiations passed between the Great Powers and Germany in the years before the Treaty of Locarno was signed and before Germany entered the League of Nations. The pages are principally concerned with the subjects of reparation, German disarmament, and with the German financial crisis. Professor Gerothwohl has undertaken the tas...

Originally published in 1931, this third volume in a series of three portrays the history of 1924 to 1926. In this final volume, 1st Viscount D'Abernon examines three major events: the Dawes settlement in 1924, the Locarno Agreement in 1925, and the entry of Germany into the League of Nations in 1926. Of these three events, D'Abernon holds that the greatest was Locarno."Dawes laid the foundation—Geneva crowned the edifice, but the essential building was carried through in October 19...

After the cataclysmic events of the First World War officially ended on the Western Front in 1918, the Democratic Western Powers were still faced with the fallout of the struggle for power in Russia. There was a very real chance that the Communist contagion would transfer across the borders of Russia to Eastern Europe, as it would do some two decades later. Viscount Edgar Vincent D'Abernon was head of the Interallied Mission to Poland and was eye-witness to the struggle in Poland that culm...

Originally published in 1930, this second volume in a series of three portrays the history of 1922 and 1923. In this volume, 1st Viscount D'Abernon centres on the occupation of the Ruhr by French troops; the events immediately preceding that occupation and leading up to it; the consequences of that occupation; and the results, "good and bad," which proceeded from it—"notably the dramatic collapse of German finance.""The essential fact to be borne in mind in the study of 1923 is that...

The "Vampire Tales" is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there's no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now we have compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever, with over 80...

Book 1: Harness the “Power of Positive Thinking by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale.” Dr. Peale's guide, filled with illustrations, empowers individuals to cultivate a positive mindset, overcome challenges, and achieve success by transforming thoughts into powerful tools.Book 2: Embark on a journey to mysterious depths with “At The Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs.” Burroughs' adventure takes readers to uncharted terri...

If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This collection of the greatest mysterious dark tales gathers together more than 100 authors and more than 1000 short stories (!), which makes it truly unique in its kind. Be ...

From the founder of the Number One Stephen King news website, Lilja's Library, comes a wonderfully rich anthology of inspirational horror stories, including a rare story from Stephen King himself, classics by Clive Barker and Edgar Allan Poe, and an original novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (author of Let the Right One In), written for Shining in the Dark.Celebrating twenty years of the expansive Stephen King fan site Lilja's Library

« 150 ans après la parution du Capital, malgré la chute du communisme en Union Soviétique et la conversion de la Chine au capitalisme d’État, Marx bouge encore ! Le manifeste du Parti communiste est étudié dans les universités, Thomas Piketty fait un best-seller mondial avec Le Capital au XXIème siècle, l’œuvre de Marx est aussi étudiée aux États-Unis, Raoul Peck triomphe au cinéma (1 César) avec la vie du jeune Marx, etc. À travers des textes d’écrivains, d’historiens, d’économistes et de...