Charles Darwin's seminal work 'The Descent of Man' is published here edited and with an introduction by Adrian Desmond and James Moore. Suggestions are provided for further reading, a chronology of Darwin's life and works, and a biographical glossary.

This book is the author's Civil War diary from February 18, 1861, to June 26, 1865. She was an eyewitness to many historic events as she accompanied her husband to significant sites of the Civil War.

First published in 1908, G.K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" has been described as a metaphysical thriller. It is the story of Gabriel Syme, who is recruited by Scotland Yard as part of an anti-anarchist task force. When he meets Lucian Gregory, a poet and member of a secret society of anarchists, he gains access to the underground movement. What follows is one of the most absurd and clever plots to ever have been written, one in which Chesterton's...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thesis that children are naturally good at birth violated the traditional Christian doctrine of origin sin. His argument that education should arise from children's natural instincts and impulses rather than trying to civilize and socialize them challenged traditional schooling. Rousseau's defenders see him as a pioneering thinker whose revolutionary...

Chronicles a hot dispute between two Scotsmen, a Roman Catholic and an atheist, whose fanatically held opinions inspire a host of comic adventures. The story's allegorical levels vigorously explore the debate between theism and atheism.

Rachel Innes leaves the security of her town house for the summer to lease Sunnyside, a barn-like country home with--it turns out--hidden rooms and other sinister features. The middle-aged spinister and her niece and nephew have barely moved in before the first of a series of spine-chilling events occur. A body is found at the foot of Sunnyside's circular staircase.

Hundreds of pointed definitions, maxims, apocryphal quotations, and satirical verses attest to the power of the author's delightful, incisive wit.

First published in 1896, this is the saga of a small town Methodist minister entangled in religious doubts and allured by sex and beauty.

"Chronicles the life of Jane Austen, covering her birth, childhood, adolescence, and maturity, describing what daily life was like, her writings, and her death, and examining letters written by Austen, herself, along with correspondence sent between family members."--

Samuel Johnson is famously known for single-handedly creating the first recognized dictionary of the English language, just one of many his many renowned accomplishments. The biography of this remarkable writer, dramatist, poet, and moralist was penned by his friend, James Boswell, in 1791. An immediate success upon its publication, this work has come to be considered the greatest biography produced in the English language, and has earned Boswell...