Molière's beloved comedy features a rising member of the middle class who lusts for social status and higher learning. Plays for Performance Series.
Moliere's beloved comedy features a rising member of the middle class who lusts for social status and higher learning.
Brashler traces the career of a great baseball hitter known as "the black Babe Ruth"--from the sandlots and semi-pro teams of Pittsburgh through his debut with the Homestead Grays in 1930 to his untimely death in 1947 at age 35. 8 illustrations.
Bruce Barton's 1925 effort to reconfigure Jesus for the Roaring Twenties turned into one of the great best-sellers of the century. No Puritan or Prohibitionist, here was Christ as the world's first advertising man, a great business executive who "picked up twelve men from the...
In this bountiful selection of his most memorable columns, baseball fans can recapture some of baseball's greatest moments and unforgettable characters.
This narrative provides an account of Warren Hastings, the first British governor-general of India. The book looks at his rise from clerk in the... Læs mere
A powerful and moving story of the racial transformation of an American neighborhood, told in memoir and oral narrative. “It deserves... Læs mere
Featuring a collection of essays which appeared in "The New Criterion",... Læs mere
This thoughtful, inspiring, often humorous, and intensely spiritual collection brings together for the first time the most searching writings from the world of monks and nuns.