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The varieties of religious experience: A study in human nature

50 reviews
William James

Longmans, Green, and Co, 1915

Always providing further insight
This 1902 publication still takes pride of place as a landmark study and remains one of the most influential books ever on psychology and spirituality. The style is accessible and engaging, consistently interesting with well-reasoned arguments. Religions are not compared; the study is restricted to the experiences of the individual. James considers the feelings, actions and experiences of ...

The Egg And I

68 reviews
Betty MacDonald

Longmans, Green and Co, 1947

Wonderful
What can you say about a book like this that hasn't already been said! I just love it - having read it firstly many years ago. This is life at its hardest, a struggle to make ends meet in difficult circumstances and a story of bravery and optimism that inspires and reassures us even today when we have things so much better. You can never quite look at an egg again without thinking of Betty ...

On liberty,

30 reviews
John Stuart Mill

Longmans, Green, and Co, 1921

The great defender of individual liberty
John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England. Minister of Parliament 1865-68 he served one term. Maiden speech was a disaster his second was great success. He was first MP to propose that women should be given the vote on equal footing with the men who could vote. He got 1/3 support, England gives franchise to women after U.S. He was a great ...

Anatomy, descriptive and surgical

28 reviews
Henry Gray

Longmans, Green, 1901

Great book!
Have wanted to purchase this book for years, now it is available and affordable. Such a great educational tool for anyone interested in medicine and the human body. Thank you Amazon for making this possible.

The secret of childhood,

6 reviews
Maria Montessori

Longmans, Green and Co, 1936

Montessori's Philosophy is respectful and beautiful.
This as well as many books written by Dr. Montessori are enlightening, educational and serve as a model for all parents raising children today. Her vision of peace and all of her teachings need to be brought to responsible parents and care givers. Children are our future....peace was Maria Montessori's vision....teach it!

Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island; (Longmans' English classics)

261 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Longmans', Green, and Co, 1910

Tense, Readable Adventure
This is a solid condensed version of the classic search for buried treasure in the late 1700's. Author Robert Louis Stevenson draws readers in early as the Captain arrives at the Benbow Inn in Britain, focused on incoming ships, and warning young Jim Hawkins of one-legged visitors. The story picks up as Billy Bones arrives, bringing danger and discovery of the treasure map, a discovery that ...

Scoop: A novel about journalists (The Heritage of literature series. Section B)

44 reviews
Evelyn Waugh

Longmans, Green, 1965

Waugh's farce about the newspaper trade and making a name for oneself
Evelyn Waugh's send-up of the newspaper business, and where in other novels he could be bitterly satirical, here he's wildly farcical and broadly comical. William Boot, a nature writer for the DAILY BEAST, ("Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole" is given as an example of his "high-class style" of writing), is mistaken for the novelist John Boot and is sent to the African ...

The life and times of Jesus the Messiah;

15 reviews
Alfred Edersheim

Longmans, Green, and co, 1904

Messiah's Life and Times plus more!
The edition of "The Life and Times of Jesus Christ the Messiah" that I am reviewing is the third edition printed in 1995. It is a burgundy hard cover with gold lettering. This may be the most thorough,comprehensive book about the land and times of Jesus. It covers religious thought and politics of the day. What the Messianic expectations were. This is a very detailed and well-documented ...

The red fairy book,

9 reviews
Andrew Lang

Longmans, Green, and Co, 1922

I loved this book.
When I was in third grade, my school had the Red, Blue, and Yellow Faerie books, and as I was an avid reader I read all 3 of them. The one I continued to check-out and reread over and over again however was The Red Fairy Book. I have fond memories of many hours spent turning the pages of this book, and admittedly, it could be that I am looking back thru rose colored spectacles, it made such an ...

The grey fairy book (The fairy book series)

8 reviews
Andrew Lang

Longmans, Green and Co, 1914

A little insight into Langs greatest rendition, Donkeyskin
Andrew Lang could be decisevly one of the forefathers of fairytales for his many renditions of the fairytales we all love so much. His books have kept many fairytales in popular culture today, for instance the tale of Donkeyskin. Donkeyskin, in its hayday, was a tale that as many fairytales do, undermined and inforced ideologies of it's days. It spoke out against arranged marriages and ...

At swim-two-birds

42 reviews
Flann O'Brien

Longmans, Green and Co, 1939

at swim-two-birds
good book. read it after i read gilbert sorrentino's piece on it from "Something Said".

Scoop: A novel about journalists (The Heritage of literature series. Section B)

Utilitarianism,

11 reviews
John Stuart Mill

Longmans, Green and Co, 1901

Utilitarian philosophy explained
I read this book for a graduate Mill seminar in Philosophy. Recommended reading for anyone interested in philosophy, political science, and history. John Stuart Mill, 1806-73, worked for the East India Co. helped run Colonial India from England. Minister of Parliament 1865-68 he served one term. Mill develops a theory of morality in Utilitarianism. He argues against the group of people ...

The olive fairy book; (The fairy book series)

6 reviews
Andrew Lang

Longmans, Green, and Co, 1907

An Amazing Collection!
"The Olive Fairy Book" has got to be one of Andrew Lang's best. In this volume, he strays from the more commonly known tales, and instead publishes a collection of exotic tales from Muslim/Hindu countries. I've never heard many of the PLOTS before, and we all know that many fairy tales share common plots. These tales are surprisingly different, and delightfully enjoyable. Anyone who is ...

The complete book of solitaire and patience games,

6 reviews
Albert H Morehead

Longmans, Green, 1949

The New Testament for card players.
If According to Hoyle by Moorehead was card-game bible when I was a child, this book was certainly a new testament. I really didn't fit in well with other kids, so I had nothing much to do. So, I studies solitaires. But I had 150 ways to play solitaire, and all that book did was confuse me. When I found this book at KayBee many years ago, I was most impressed. It's the clearest book ...

Blue fairy book,

10 reviews
Andrew Lang

Longmans, Green, 1960

spectacular as always
Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book is just as god as any of the other fairy books, it just has different stories. This book has 37 short fairy tales and black and white pictures on 7 different pages. Some of the fairy tales that this book has include:The Bronze Ring,The Yyellow Dwarf,Little Red Riding Hood,The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,Cinderella,Aladin,Rumpelstiltzkin,Beauty and the Beast,Han ...

The green fairy book

5 reviews
Andrew Lang

Longmans, Green, 1924

perfect
Andrew Lang just continues to spit out one greatr book after another. His stories are vivid and follow the plot they were meant to follow. This book contains 42 stories and 98 black and white pictues. Some of the stories in this book include:Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,The Three Little Pigs,The Enchanted Ring,The Magic Swan,The Crystsal Coffin, The Riddle,The Three Musicians, ...

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