A young Scottish woman struggles with parental authority as she makes her courtship and marriage choices in nineteenth century England

Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle - The Nicomachean Ethics is one of Aristotle's most widely read and influential works. Ideas central to ethics-that happiness is the end of human endeavor, that moral virtue is formed through action and habituation, and that good action requires prudence-found their most powerful proponent in the person medieval scholars simply called "the Philosopher." Drawing on their intimate knowledge of Aristotle's thought, Robert...

Sixteen-year-old spoiled brat Harvey Cheyne is rescued by the crew of a fishing trawler and has to earn his keep

Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India

This collection brings together some of Sherlock Holmes's earliest cases. In this volume, Watson records some Holmes's greatest strokes of brilliance, including the delicate problem of 'A Scandal in Bohemia' and 'The Copper Beeches'.

A history of clothing according to a German professor leads to questions of social injustice, faith, understanding, and the conduct of life

When a young woman falls in love with her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the barrier of his vocation and her society's standards of proper behavior, in a novel of eighteenth century England

A collection of six short stories by a nineteenth-century Russian master of the genre