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Classic French novel in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant (July 1, 1804 June 8, 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and feminist.... A liaison with the writer Jules Sandeau heralded her literary debut. They...

Classic French short stories, in the original French, including: LE CHENE PARLANT, LE CHIEN ET LA FLEUR SACRÉE, L'ORGUE DU TITAN, CE QUE DISENT LES FLEURS, LE MARTEAU ROUGE LA FÉE POUSSIÈRE, LE GNOME DES HUITRES, and LA FÉE AUX GROS YEUX. According to Wikipedia: "Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness...

Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy in the twenty-first century? Why is Europe dying, demographically? In The Cube and the Cathedral, George Weigel offers a penetrating critique of "Europe's...

The Christian life is like a kaleidoscope; one never knows what the next pattern will be. Life events are just like the colours, full of surprises. George Falconer's faith led him to the red light district in Amsterdam, working amongst prostitutes, the homeless and other needy people living...

When George Mueller could not get it out of his mind to open a house for orphans in late 1835, he purposed to do so "that God might be magnified by the fact that the orphans under my care are provided with all they need, only by prayer and faith." For over sixty years George Mueller wrote...

It was only after the consideration of many months, and after much self-examination as to my motives, and after much earnest prayer, that I came to the conclusion to write this little work. I have not taken one single step in the Lord's service, concerning which I have prayed so much. My great dislike...

TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST PART. It was only after the consideration of many months, and after much self-examination as to my motives, and after much earnest prayer, that I came to the conclusion to write this little work. I have not taken one single step in the Lord's service, concerning which...

General Bounce George Whyte-Melville, scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet (1821-1878) This ebook presents «General Bounce», from George Whyte-Melville. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About...

“Young Goodman Brown” is the Nathaniel Hawthorne short story that presents everyman’s journey into darkness and his struggle to keep his faith. -The language of almost two hundred years ago has been modernized making Hawthorne’s difficult language easily understood by today’s readers....

With a diagnosis of colon cancer, George Malkmus launched an intensive biblical and scientific search to find out why he, a Christian, got sick—and to possibly find an alternative treatment to the medical profession's usually unsuccessful ones. Why Christians Get Sick by George Malkmus, is the most...

An Inquiry into the Religious Tenets of the Yezeedeesby George Percy Badger A short account of the Yezidis by a Christian Missionary. "This is a short extract from a book by a Christian missionary which gives some historical observations on the Yezidi people of northern Iraq. For more...

The complete Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated cyberpunk trilogy by an author whose work is “wry and black and savage” (George R. R. Martin). Praised as “a perfect example of how exciting the subgenre can and should be,” George Alec Effinger’s Budayeen Cycle is a towering and timeless...

Based on George Packer's account in The New Yorker, Betrayed is a riveting and morally complex drama that explores in the Iraqis' own words the ways in which we have already abandoned them. Millions of Iraqis, spanning the country's religious and ethnic spectrum, welcomed the overthrow of Saddam...

Three powerful profiles of men and women whose lives were changed forever by the AIDS epidemic “Some of my reasons for wanting to write about AIDS were altruistic, others selfish. AIDS was decimating the community around me; there was a need to bear witness. AIDS had turned me and others...