Author: Alexandre Duma
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: tulip, black
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1420924966
ISBN-13: 9781420924961

Set in Holland in the late 17th century, "The Black Tulip" is the story of Cornelius De Witt, a tulip grower who aspires to grow the elusive black tulip. Following the murder of his brother John De Witt, Cornelius is caught up in a web of political intrigue. In "The Black Tulip," Dumas masterfully weaves the historical events that surrounded Holland during the tulip-mania of the 17th century into a gripping political allegory.

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: tempest
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 1420926217
ISBN-13: 9781420926217

It is entirely probable that the date of "The Tempest" is 1611, and that this was the last play completed by Shakespeare before he retired from active connection with the theater to spend the remainder of his life in leisure in his native town of Stratford-on-Avon. The main thread of the plot of the drama seems to have been some folk-tale of a magician and his daughter, which, in the precise form in which Shakespeare knew it, has not been recovered. The storm and the island were, it is believed, suggested by the wreck on the Bermudas in 1609 of one of the English expeditions to Virginia. Trace

Authors:Voltaire,  Tobias Smollett,
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: candide
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2006-01-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 142092673X
ISBN-13: 9781420926736

Political satire doesn’t age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel’s driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire’s day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive,

Author: Georges Lakhovsky
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: life, secret
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 142092995X
ISBN-13: 9781420929959

"In the ’Secret of Life’ Lakhovsky confines himself to the study of electromagnetic waves, deeply penetrating waves and unknown waves. There are certainly many more processes of energy transmission besides revealed to us by Newton and Fresnel. It is in the study of human beings that the chances of discovering such processes are most promising. Therefore, let us experiment by using the methods of physicists and chemists, and let us aim at discovering the special detector mentioned in the conclusion of this work."-From the preface.

Authors:Anton Chekhov,  Julius West,
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: sisters, three
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 1420931296
ISBN-13: 9781420931297

"Three Sisters" is Anton Chekhov’s dramatic play written in 1900 and first performed in 1901. The story concerns the lives of an aristocratic family, the Prozorovs, who struggle to search for meaning in the modern world. The three sisters, Olga, Masha, and Irina, along with their brother Andrei, are living in a small provincial town, yet they long to return to the urban sophistication of Moscow where they grew up. Chekhov’s "Three Sisters" brilliantly depicts the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family as they struggle to contend with the decline of the privileged class in Rus

Author: S. L. MacGregor Mather
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: solomon, key, greater
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 142092818X
ISBN-13: 9781420928181

"The Greater Key of Solomon" is the classic grimoire, or book of magic, attributed to the ancient King Solomon who reigned over Israel during the 9th century B.C. Detailed within this volume are many examples of ritualistic magic typical to the ancient world. Presented here in this volume is the translation of the famous modern occultist S. L. MacGregor Mathers.

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: husband, ideal
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 142092592X
ISBN-13: 9781420925920

Oscar Wilde’s classic drama, "An Ideal Husband," is the story of an up-and-coming politician with a secret past and the blackmail scheme to keep that secret quiet. Wilde’s play is a first-rate comedy that challenges its audience with the basic theme of morality and the greater standard that seems to fall upon those individuals in the public eye.