Jimmy McClean is a Lakota boy—though you wouldn’t guess it by his name: his father is part white and part Lakota, and his mother is Lakota. When he embarks on a journey with his grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, he learns more and more about his Lakota heritage—in particular, the story of Crazy Horse, one of the most important figures in Lakota and American history. Drawing references and inspiration from the oral stories of the Lakota tradition, celebrated author Joseph Marshall III juxtapos...

Walking on Earth and Touching the Sky is an exceptional poetry collection written by Lakota students in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades at Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota—founded in 1888 at the request of Chief Red Cloud of the Oglala Lakota.The poems in this collection enable readers to learn about the unique lives and heritage of students growing up in very distinctive circumstan...

Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who—with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership—fought for his people's land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating biography, Joseph M. Marshall, himself a Lakota Indian, creates a vibrant portrait of the man, his times, and his legacy.Thanks to firsthan...

First published in 1621 under the persona "Democritus Junior," The Anatomy of Melancholy is an encyclopedic inquiry into sadness that ranges across medicine, philosophy, theology, and poetry. Organized into learned partitions on causes, symptoms, and cures, it surveys humoral physiology, lovesickness, religious despair, and civic malaise, proposing regimens of diet, exercise, music, friendship, and physic. Burton's baroque, digressive prose, thick with classical citations and sly satire, e...

The Ecclesiastical History surveys the church from the apostles to Constantine, organizing episcopal successions, persecutions, controversies, and councils into a coherent chronicle that inaugurates Christian historiography. Eusebius writes spare, documentary Greek, stitching narrative to copious extracts—letters, martyr-acts, edicts, and lost authors like Hegesippus and Papias. Apologetic in aim, it displays providence, defines orthodoxy (notably his categories of New Testament books), an...

A Writer's Diary, selected by Leonard Woolf, distills Virginia Woolf's notebooks into a concentrated record of artistic labor. Covering the composition of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, and The Years, it joins candid self-critique to quick, luminous observations on reading, publishing, and place. The entries are fragmentary yet patterned, attentive to cadence and structure, and anchored in the interwar modernist milieu; together they form a self-portrait of compositio...

Church History of Eusebius: ALL 10 Books in One Volume gathers the ten-book Historia Ecclesiastica, the earliest comprehensive narrative of Christianity from the apostles to the Constantinian settlement. With annalistic clarity and an excerpt-driven, documentary style, Eusebius catalogues episcopal successions, controversies and heresies, martyrdoms, synods, and imperial edicts, preserving fragments from Papias, Hegesippus, Quadratus, Melito, and others now otherwise lost. Framed by apolog...

Mysticism (Complete Edition) is Underhill's landmark mapping of the mystical life across traditions, organized around a coherent process: awakening, purgation, illumination, the dark night, and union. Combining close readings of Plotinus, Dionysius, Ruysbroeck, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Boehme with an exacting distinction between genuine mysticism and magic or occultism, she integrates historical, theological, and psychological analysis. The Complete Edition restores her full...

Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness (1911) is Evelyn Underhill's classic synthesis of the history, psychology, and theology of the mystical life. Moving from Plotinus and Dionysius to Eckhart, Ruysbroeck, Teresa, and John of the Cross, she frames the "mystic way" in five phases—Awakening, Purgation, Illumination, the Dark Night, and Union. Her lucid prose joins generous quotation to careful taxonomy, and distinguishes magic (will to power) from mysti...

A Writer's Diary distills Virginia Woolf's notebooks into a sustained chronicle of artistic practice, tracing the composition of Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves, and the late essays alongside her reading, reviewing, and publishing work. Selected and arranged by Leonard Woolf from entries spanning 1918–1941, the volume foregrounds the workshop of modernism: experiments in voice and rhythm, candid reports of false starts and breakthroughs, and keen observations of London ...

One of Ours (1922) traces Claude Wheeler, a discontented Nebraska farm heir whose thwarted idealism, sterile marriage, and drift toward World War I culminate in a paradoxical discovery of purpose. Cather's lyrical realism—luminous prairies, impressionistic troopships and French fields, supple free indirect narration—sets the American pastoral against mechanized war, situating the novel within postwar debates over authenticity and belief. It won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize. Cather—Virginia-born...

Published in 1922, Jacob's Room is Woolf's first fully modernist experiment, composing Jacob Flanders through a mosaic of voices, objects, and rooms. Impressionistic vignettes move from a Cornish shore to Cambridge and London; syntax is elliptical, focalization fluid, so identity appears as pattern rather than possession. Classical allusion, letters, and precise things weave memory and time under the Great War's gathering shadow; the empty room is elegy and critique. Breaking with Edwardia...