Dancing Unicorn Books imprint: 255 books
by Jeanne Marie Bouvieres la Motte de Guyon
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing a book on the topic, 'A Short and Easy Method...
by Chretien de Troyes
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
In the poem, Yvain seeks to avenge his cousin Calogrenant who had been defeated by an otherworldly knight Esclados beside a magical storm-making stone in the forest of Brocéliande. Yvain defeats Esclados and falls in love with his widow Laudine. Chrétien's works include five major poems in rhyming...
by Sophocles
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2017
Sophocles addresses themes of civil disobedience, fidelity, and love for family; and questions which law is greater: the gods' or man's—in this play that challenged many established mores of Ancient Greece.
by Edmund Burke
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
'A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful' is a 1757 treatise on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke. In short, the Beautiful, according to Burke, is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy...
Through the Gates of Good
or Christ and Conduct
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2017
He who will humbly pass through the Gate of Good, resolving that every element of his nature that is not pure and true and lovable shall be abandoned, that every violation of the Divine precepts shall be abolished, to him, faithful, humble, true, will be revealed the sublime Vision of the Perfect...
Just How to Wake the Solar Plexus
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016
Learn how to wake up the life powers that will help you live a happier, healthier, more balanced life. We all have the ability to have a measure of control over our physical and mental well being through attitude and concentration. This book will show you how to improve your state of mind and thus your entire life.
Catholic Churchmen in Science
Sketches of the Lives of Catholic Ecclesiastics Who Were Among the Great Founders in Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (1865-1942) was an American physician and author, born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham College in 1884 and from the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.) in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna and Berlin he settled in New York.
by Voltaire
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
François-Marie Arouet wrote under the nom de plume of Voltaire, and produced works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. Fate would make us wretched here, But hope shall dry up every tear; In sorrow he shall give us rest, And make us even in anguish blest
Bhagavad Gita
Being a Discourse Between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being Under the Form of Krishna
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
This famous and marvellous Sanskrit poem occurs as an episode of the Mahabharata, in the sixth-or "Bhishma"-Parva of the great Hindu epic. It enjoys immense popularity and authority in India, where it is reckoned as one of the "Five Jewels," -pancharatnani- of Devanagiri literature....
Experiencing the Holy Spirit
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
There are plenty of insights to get your spiritual fire burning in this book, as Murray reveals the Holy Spirit and makes it come alive! Along with the Bible and an open heart, this book can do much to change how we view what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2016
Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, Who was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time. CONTAINING An Account of the Murder of her Father and his Family; her sufferings; her marriage to two Indians;...
The Libation Bearers
With Linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or performed, the others being Sophocles and Euripides. He is often described as the father of tragedy: our knowledge of the genre begins with his work and our understanding of earlier tragedies is largely...
by St. Albert the Great
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
On Cleaving to God is an enduring Christina Classic. Albertus Magnus better known as St. Albert the Great wrote it almost 800 years ago. In it he describes the love of god that wil help the faithful cleave to him. As pertinent today as when it was first written.
by Saint Francis of Assisi
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Let us consider how the life of the glorious St Francis was conformed in every act with that of our Blessed Lord. For as Christ, before he began to preach, made choice of twelve Apostles, teaching them to despise all the things of this world, to follow him in poverty and in the practice of all other...