John Calvin was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, including its doctrines of predestination and of God's absolute sovereignty in the salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. Calvinist doctrines were influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have s...

One cold day in December, in the city of Aberdeen, a baby girl was carried by her mother into a church to be enrolled in the Kingdom of Jesus and given a name. As the minister went through the tender and beautiful ceremony the people in the pews looked at the tiny form in her robes of white, and thought of the long years that lay before her and wondered what she would become, because every girl and boy is like a shut casket full of mystery and promise and hope. No one knows what gifts may ...

A profound and moving piece of investigative journalism, Jack London's study of the London underworld remains, a century after it was written, a timely tale of poverty and injustice.In 1902, Jack London purchased some second-hand clothes, rented a room in the East End, and set out to discover how the London poor lived. His research makes shocking reading. Moving through the slums as one of the poor; eating, drinking and socialising with the underclass; queuing to get into a doss-house, Lon...

What is Flashy doing?-in the drawing room of a great English mansion with the redhot-blooded mistress of a violently jealous blue-blood?-in between a pair of Chinese beauties who are willing to do anything and everything to close the gap between East and West?-in the hold of a warship under fire, with a Malay maiden as explosive as the shells bursting above?-in the forced service of an African queen who lets a lover stay alive only as long as his power to pleas...

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC (/ˈbʌxən/; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.After a brief legal career, Buchan simultaneously began his writing career and his political and diplomatic careers, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in southern Africa. He eventually wrote propaganda for...

In 'The Adventures of General-Major Richard Hannay: 7 Espionage & Mystery Classics', John Buchan presents a collection of thrilling tales featuring the iconic character, General-Major Richard Hannay. The book is a fine example of early 20th-century espionage literature, filled with action-packed narratives and clever plot twists. Buchan's writing style is concise yet descriptive, creating an atmosphere of tension and intrigue that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. The stories withi...

This book provides you with more than 70 articles written by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson. These articles were published in various newspapers and magazines, over the period 1890 to 1920.The collection covers most of the newsworthy events of that time, including The Boer War, and World War 1. Many of the articles are humorous, but most are quite serious; they delve into the politics of the time, and the issues that concerned the general population. This gives a gr...

The Complete Works of John BuchanJohn Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, GCMG, GCVO, CH, PC was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.This collection includes the following:The Half-HeartedThe Path of the KingThe African ColonyHuntingtowerJohn Burnet of BarnsSir Quixote of the MoorsDays to RememberThe Thirty-nine StepsGre...

This collection presents some of the most amazing works by Stoker. Reflecting his true genius and imagination these works range from nautical life to an exquisitely beautiful imaginative land. From darkened and shadowed atmosphere the light of goodness and virtue shines through!

I mind as if it were yesterday my first sight of the man. Little I knew at the time how big the moment was with destiny, or how often that face seen in the fitful moonlight would haunt my sleep and disturb my waking hours. But I mind yet the cold grue of terror I got from it, a terror which was surely more than the due of a few truant lads breaking the Sabbath with their play.The town of Kirkcaple, of which and its adjacent parish of Portincross my father was the minister, lies on ...

The Thirty-Nine Steps & Other Adventure Stories gathers John Buchan's brisk, perilous fiction of pursuit, conspiracy, and imperial unease, headed by the 1915 classic that introduced Richard Hannay. Written in a lean, propulsive style—part clubland memoir, part spy thriller, part wilderness romance—these seven action-driven narratives helped define the modern "man-on-the-run" adventure. Beneath their rapid escapes, coded secrets, and geopolitical plots lies a revealing literary context: the...

Employing his unique style of innocent and endearing humour, Bones has written to the newspapers The Surrey Star and The Middlesex Plain Dealer inviting the Foreign Secretary to pay a visit to the African territories which they administer. It is against the regulations and his boss Hamilton is furious. While world powers vie for colonial honours, Sanders and his assistants attempt to administer an uneasy peace in a climate of ju-ju and witch doctors, and all the while Bos...