Publisher: WS
The Richest Man in Babylon is a 1926 book by George S. Clason that dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set 4,097 years ago in ancient Babylon. The book remains in print almost a century after the parables were originally published, and is regarded as a classic of personal financial advice.
First published in Harper’s Magazine in 1908, The Shell of Sense is a quietly devastating supernatural tale that explores what remains of love, jealousy, and moral awareness after death. Newly released from the physical world, a woman finds herself lingering invisibly within her former home—watching, thinking, feeling with an unnerving clarity she never possessed in life. As she observes her husband and her sister moving through grief, tenderness, and unspoken devotion, she begins to understand how limited her living perceptions once were—and how dangerous her lingering emotions have become. This is not a story of rattling chains or violent hauntings. It is a ghost story of consciousness, of the pain of knowing too much too late, and of the fragile boundaries between possession and love, pity and control. The haunting unfolds through psychological tension and moral reckoning rather than spectacle, culminating in a quiet, transcendent release that reframes loss, loyalty, and forgiveness. Narrated with restraint and emotional intelligence by Myriam Berger, The Shell of Sense is a luminous Edwardian meditation on perception beyond death—a haunting of conscience rather than place, and a classic of literary supernatural fiction that lingers long after it ends.Show book
The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Christopher St John Sprigg.Show book
John Gould Fletcher was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on 3rd January 1886 to a socially prominent family. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover before advancing to Harvard University which he attended from 1903 to 1907, before dropping out after his father's death. As a young man Fletcher spent many years in England where he became part of the influential Imagist group of poets together with Amy Lowell and Ezra Pound. His first marriage came from a resumed relationship with the now married Florence Emily ‘Daisy’ Arbuthnot. Her adultery with Fletcher was the grounds for her divorce from Malcolm Arbuthnot. They married on 5th July 1916 but later divorced. Fletcher first published in 1912, with ‘The Dominant City’ too much praise and admiration and followed this with other well-regarded volumes such as ‘Irradiations: Sand and Spray’, and ‘Goblins and Pagodas’. In the late 1920s and 1930s Fletcher became increasingly active with a group of Southern writers and poets known as the Southern Agrarians. They published the classic ‘I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition’. Although he was highly regarded as a poet he was not very prolific. However, such was the undoubted quality that in 1939 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his work ‘Selected Poems’. He was the first poet from the south to receive such an accolade. Fletcher’s other passion and pursuit was as an authority on modern painting, a subject on which he also published. A second marriage followed in 1936 to the children’s author, Charlie May Simon. They built ‘Johnswood’, a residence on the bluffs of the Arkansas River and travelled frequently to New York for shots of modern culture and intellectual stimulation as well as to the American West and South for the climate after Fletcher developed chronic arthritis. In 1937 he wrote his autobiography, ‘Life is My Song’. His developing passion for his roots and background resulted in the writing of a history of his State and published in 1947; ‘Arkansas’. By now Fletcher was suffering from bouts of depression and on 10th May 1950, he committed suicide by drowning himself in a pond near his home in Little Rock, Arkansas.Show book
The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors. From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure. Among them is Nathaniel Parker Wills.Show book
A timeless masterpiece of spiritual wisdom, The Prophet weaves together profound insights on the human experience, offering solace and inspiration to seekers across the ages. Through the poetic voice of Almustafa, a wise prophet preparing to depart a foreign city after twelve years, Gibran explores life's most enduring themes—love, work, freedom, joy, and sorrow.Each chapter unfolds as an intimate dialogue, blending lyrical beauty with universal truths that resonate deeply in the soul. Whether you are searching for guidance or simply yearning for meaning, The Prophet is a transformative journey that reminds us of our shared humanity and the eternal dance of life.Perfect for readers of all backgrounds, this poetic treasure remains a beacon of light for anyone seeking wisdom and understanding.Show book
A harrowing tale of two, supposed, friends. Nothing is as it seems, though. What will happen to the noble Fortunato.Show book
