Blackmore Dennett: 167 books

Emma Goldman was an anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

Two main schools of religious thinking exist in our midst at the present day: the school of humanists and the school of animists. This work is to some extent an attempt to reconcile them. It contains, I believe, the first extended effort that has yet been made to trace the genesis of the belief in...

During the last half of the second century before Christ Rome was undisputed mistress of the civilised world. A brilliant period of foreign conquest had succeeded the 300 years in which she had overcome her neighbours and made herself supreme in Italy. In 146 B.C. she had given the death-blow to her...

**In 410 A. D., King Alaric and the Visigoths besieged and sacked Rome. “The eternal city”, which had been the centre of one of greatest empires ever to have existed, had been taken by Rome’s enemies and her wealth plundered.** But although Rome had fallen, this was not the end...

Leonid Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer, who is considered to be a father of Expressionism in Russian literature. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist, and symbolist...

John Acton weaves a fantastic history spanning from the Renaissance to the American Revolution.  Featuring: Beginning Of The Modern State The New World The Renaissance Luther The Counter-Reformation Calvin And Henry Viii. Philip Ii, Mary Stuart, And Elizabeth The Huguenots And The League Henry...

The object of this books is not so much to give a narrative history of the countries included in the Romano-Germanic Empire -- Italy during the Middle Ages, Germany from the ninth century to the nineteenth -- as to describe the Holy Empire itself as an institution or system, the wonderful offspring of a body of beliefs and traditions which have almost wholly passed away from the world.

Among the persons whose genius, heroism and force of character influenced events, and won commanding game, in the seventeenth century, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is justly regarded of the first. The War of Thirty Years, a long and terrible struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism, largely influenced...

A neglectful father appears one day and demands his daughter’s services. He takes his daughter, Christina, by force from her adoptive parents in order to take care of an ailing lord’s daughter. Christina displays unparalleled bravery by settling in the prison like castle, facing vulgar customs, and being a nurse to girl her own age.

The Classic Fantasy Collection brings together 20 of the greatest fantasy novels ever written.  Featuring:  Phantastes, by George MacDonald The Water-Babies, by Charles Kingsley Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll Lilith, by George...

The term Middle Ages indicates the period which elapsed between the ruin of the Roman Empire and the establishment of the great modern monarchies. It extends from the German invasion at the beginning of the fifth century to the capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks ten centuries later in...

The second installment of the Science Fiction Collection, guaranteed to trigger that wonderful feeling of inspired adventure! Featuring: The Lani People (J. F. Bone) Advanced Chemistry (Jack Huekels) Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas (R. A. Lafferty) Keep Out (Frederic Brown) All Cats are Gray...

Robert Owen was a Welshtextile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer, and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. Owen is best known for his efforts to improve the working conditions of his factory workers and his promotion of experimental socialistic communities....

Bax was first introduced to socialism while studying philosophy in Germany in 1879. He combined socialist ideas with those of Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann. Keen to explore possible metaphysical and ethical implications of socialism, he came to describe a "religion...