The Big Nest imprint: 177 books

G.K. Chesterton's essays on big literary names and their influences on literature, featuring: Charlotte Bronte, Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Ruskin, William Morris, Byron, Thomas Carlyle, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and many others.

Henry Shakspeare Knight is an innocuous shorthand clerk who becomes a highly successful novelist, despite living a sedentary life with his adoring mother and having no real experience or knowledge of human nature.

A cocktail mixing book covering all classic cocktails from absinthe based American Service to elegant brandy and champagne based cocktails such as Champagne Frappe or Bronx, followed by many exotic cocktails, traditional punches, whiskey, rum based drinks. Also included are recipes for non-alcoholic...

This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, 'whether virtue can be taught.' Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. 'Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.' Yes, Socrates had met him, but he has a bad memory,...

The story of Hilda's coming of age, her working experiences as a shorthand clerk and keeper of a lodging house in London and Brighton, her relationship with George Cannon that ends in her disastrous bigamous marriage and pregnancy, and finally her reconciliation with Edwin Clayhanger.

At the beginning a misconception must be removed from the path. Many people, if not most, look on literary taste as an elegant accomplishment, by acquiring which they will complete themselves, and make themselves finally fit as members of a correct society. They are secretly ashamed of their ignorance...

Let us now discuss sophistic refutations, i.e. what appear to be refutations but are really fallacies instead. Some reasonings are genuine, while others seem to be so but are not, is evident. This happens with arguments, as also elsewhere, through a certain likeness between the genuine and the sham.

On Interpretation is among the earliest surviving philosophical works in the Western tradition to deal with the relationship between language and logic in a comprehensive, explicit, and formal way.

We must now treat of youth and old age and life and death. We must probably also at the same time state the causes of respiration as well, since in some cases living and the reverse depend on this.

The reasons for some animals being long-lived and others short-lived, and, in a word, causes of the length and brevity of life.

Richard Larch is a young man with talent and ambition. He moves to London to make his way in life. He takes a clerk's position in a law office and in his spare time makes attempts at writing and falling in love.

Arthur Prohack is a Treasury official admired and feared by people at all levels of government. At home, he is affection itself to his quiet, ever-anxious wife, Marian, and to their two grown children. Drama unfolds with arrival of debtor whose loan Mr. Prohack had long ago written off. In this satirical...

George Edwin is an architect, and represents what his stepfather Edwin Clayhanger wished to become. He displays an unattractive arrogance because of the wealth behind him. He he thinks about adding electric light to his London dwelling, and decides that he - or rather, his stepfather - can well afford it.

It is astonishing to see how many philosophical disputes collapse into insignificance the moment you subject them to this simple test of tracing a concrete consequence. There can be no difference any-where that doesn't make a difference elsewhere—no difference in abstract truth that doesn't express...