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Bounds, a much loved Christian writer, has several classic books on prayer. He states that prayer is available to all, but that one must approach it with the right attitude. This volume deals with personal and corporate prayer.

A Manifest Destiny tells the story of Bettina Mowbray, a sweet-natured and beautiful American girl who meets the heir of a British lord. He falls madly in love with her and they are engaged to be married. But his cousin, Lord Hurdly, is vehemently opposed to the union and Bettina's attempts to win him round are fruitless. Instead Bettina receives an offer and makes a decision that seems to doom her for a life of unhappiness and disappointment... This charming love story from 1900 may sound highly fanciful, but Julia Magruder's own cousin Helen had married a Baron to become Lady Abinger, so she had recent family experience on which to draw. This text of this elegant new hardcover from Benediction Classics has been carefully re-edited but includes the first edition's six black and white illustrations.

Professor Jowett's complete and unabridged translation of Phaedrus; including introduction and essay "On the Decline of Greek Literature".

Edgar Wallace, author of The Lone House Mystery, was a celebrated British author in the early twentieth century. Over 160 of his novels have been made into films, and he is known especially for his part in writing the story for the movie "King Kong." This collection also includes the following short stories: "Clues," "The Sooper Speaking," and "Romance In It."

An amazing collection of sketches and written descriptions of a dizzying array of plants, animals, peoples, and lands in North and South America. Fully illustrated.

This is a book written in 1900, describing the status and treatment of women. It is a culturally important book, as well as being both interesting and a pleasure to read. This book shows in stark contrast how far women have come since it was first published.

First published in 1923, this is now available in a brand new edition. It is set in 1745 during the Jacobite Rebellion. A thrilling tale of intrigue, as Alastair Maclean, a close confidant of Prince Charles Edward Stewart, secretly sets out to raise support for the Jacobite cause in England.

This paperback includes all three Volumes of the novel 'Gomez Arias The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance'. It was written in 1826 by the Spaniard Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío who wrote in English and belonged to the Romantic movement. It is set in the province of Granada. A censored version was produced in 1831.

George Worgan was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to Australia. He made expeditions to the Hawkesbury River and Broken Bay areas north of Sydney and spent a year on Norfolk Island after his was shipwrecked there. Although he kept a journal, it was not published on his return, unlike his contemporary, Watkin Tench. This book consists of letters to his brother in England, written in 1788, the second letter journaling the first six months after the First Fleet's arrival in Sydney Cove.

This, Gosson's polemic against melodrama and vulgar comedy, drew rebuttals from his contemporaries including Philip Sidney and and Thomas Lodge.

Molière's play "The Miser" in both French and English, with a short introduction by Charles Heron Wall.

Storia di un'anima (Story of a Soul) was written by Ambrogio Bazzero, but was first published posthumously by Emilio De Marchi in 1885, with a long preface describing the life and works of Bazzero. The book collects, in the form of diary, the confessions of a sensitive soul and it has a melancholy romantic feeling. This book is available only in Italian

Many beautiful children's picture books were produced in the nineteenth century, often by anonymous authors and artists. Here we've put together a new collection from a variety of sources, lavishly illustrated with black-and-white drawings. The tales included are The History of Tom Thumb, The Old Woman and her Pig, The Story of Jack and the Giants, The Cat and the Mouse and Princess Belle-Etoile.

W. C. Morrow chilled the late 19th and early 20th Centuries with his tales of horror and suspense. As well known as Poe or Stoker in his day, he has since been largely forgotten, but can still send shivers down the spines of modern readers. This handsome new edition from Benediction Classics includes eight of his most celebrated tales: The Monster Maker, His Unconquerable Enemy, The Permanent Stiletto, The Haunted Automaton, The Gloomy Shadow, The Haunted Burglar, The Faithful Amulet and The Woman of the Inner Room.

Andrew Lang's classic collection, presented in an easy to read font. There tales included are: The Bronze Ring, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Yellow Dwarf, Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, Rumpelstiltskin, Beauty and the Beast, The Master Maid, Why the Sea Is Salt, The Master Cat or Puss in Boots, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, The White Cat, The Water-lily. The Gold-spinners, The Terrible Head, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, The History of Whittington, The Wonderful Sheep, Little Thumb, The Forty Thieves, Hansel and Gretel, Snow-White and Rose-Red, The Goose-girl, Toads and Diamonds, Prince Darling, Blue Beard, Trusty John, The Brave Little Tailor, A Voyage to Lilliput, The Princess on the Glass Hill, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, The History of Jack the Giant-killer, The Black Bull of Norroway, The Red Etin,.

Challenged to write on the topic of slavery in a Cambridge essay contest, Thomas Clarkson uncovered the horrors of the enslavement of Africans in the slave trade, and purposed to do something about it. This essay won him an audience among the abolitionists, and he, along with William Wilberforce, would go on to lobby for the passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, which abolished the slave trade in the British empire.