This essential trilogy gathers Kahlil Gibran’s The Madman (1918), The Forerunner (1920), and his masterpiece, The Prophet (1923), which has sold millions of copies in more than twenty countries. Together these works compound the mesmerizing, heart-haunting effects that have made The Prophet so inspiring for millions. It is probably the most influential and best-selling wisdom book of the last 100 years and remains as relevant today as ever. In The Madman Gibran introduces the themes that preoccupy his subsequent writings—among them truth, love, forgiveness, grief, work, pleasure, death, and freedom. Gibran’s second collection of parables and poems, The Forerunner, anticipates The Prophet both in its concerns and its mastery of Gibran’s timeless, pure, lyrical style. Approachable, profound, and wise, The Prophet remains a work of singular transcendence. A new introduction illumines Gibran’s beguilingly simple poems and tales, drawing attention to the radical proposal they contain. Also included is a biographical timeline that provides a succinct overview of Gibran’s personal life and the key events of his artistic career.

The Prophet with The Forerunner and The Madman

Self-Help

GIBRAN, KAHLIL

Personal Transformation

Warbler Classics

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred years-including contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. This mind-expanding satire describes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms. The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to the features of Flatland before recounting his revelatory explorations of Lineland, a one-dimensional world, and Pointland, a world of no dimensions, and the hitherto inconceivable three-dimensional world of Spaceland, through which he is ushered by his Virgil-like guide, Sphere. In Flatland, Square is regarded as a heretic and imprisoned for his belief in the existence of a third, and possibly even a fourth, dimension. Although Flatland did not achieve popular success on its publication in 1884, it gained a broad audience after the publication of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which focused attention on the concept of a fourth dimension. The book enjoyed another renaissance with the advent of modern science fiction in the late 1930s and is now widely acknowledged as a pioneering work of mathematical fiction.

Literature & Fiction

Abbott, Edwin A.

Humor & Satire

Encounters: Stories

BOWEN, Elizabeth

Literary

Houses creak, shudder, moan, whistle, and whine. With eye-like windows and doors that appear, at night, like tunnel entrances to the unknown, houses lend themselves to our primal and persistent sense of living among ghosts. It is not difficult to imagine our ancestors conjuring tales of haunted places as they sat around fires casting shadows on cave walls. Folklore is rife with such stories and it is no wonder that our earliest literature—from a letter written by Pliny the Younger (61–c. 112), in which he describes a haunted villa in Athens to One Thousand and One Nights—include accounts of possessed places and eerie abodes.The notion that houses are repositories of events—even possibly cemeteries of previous occupants—is by no means extinguished by the explanations of toxicologists, physicists, and psychologists. On the contrary, nearly four out of every ten people believe that a house can be haunted. The folklorist Louis C. Jones observed, “It might be expected that a rational age of science would destroy belief in the ability of the dead to return. I think it works the other way: in an age of scientific miracles anything seems possible.”Contemporary tales like The Amityville Horror and The Haunting of Hill House follow a through line shaped by some of the enduring classics gathered in this collection, among them Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Turn of the Screw,” by Henry James and “The Lurking Fear,” by H. P. Lovecraft. Includes Ann Radcliff’s touchstone essay, “On the Supernatural in Poetry,” which posits the difference between terror and horror, along with brief author biographies.

Inhabited: Classic Haunted House Stories

Perkins Gilman, Charlotte

Braddon, Mary Elizabeth

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

JAMES, M.R.

James et al, Henry

Onions, Oliver

POE, EDGAR ALLAN

WHARTON,EDITH

Stoker., Bram

Lovecraft., H.P

Genre Fiction

Dorothy L. Sayer’s first novel, Whose Body?, introduced the world to the aristocratic crime fighter Lord Peter Wimsey, who featured in fourteen subsequent novels and short stories. Athletic, scholarly, stylish and sharp, Lord Peter Wimsey became one of the most popular and beloved heroes of the genre. In Wimsey’s first case, he undertakes an investigation to discover the identity and the murderer of a man who is found in a bathtub wearing nothing but a pince-nez. An ingenious and intricate plot follows that essentially announced the advent of a new star in the firmament of detective story writing, and one of the first magnitude. This unique edition includes The Strand Magazine article "The Great Detectives: Lord Peter Wimsey" by Chris Willis and an author biography.

Whose Body?: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery

SAYERS,DOROTHY L.

Classics

From the dawn of storytelling we have been mesmerized, entertained, and fascinated by stories of otherworldly visitations. Our earliest folklore and oral tales suggest that even before recorded time, on every continent and in every language, we created narratives to animate our fear of the unknown. The classic stories in this anthology have been selected for their literary style, psychological complexity, and enduring power to electrify both the imagination and the senses. As varied, rooted in, and intriguingly expressive of their time and place as these stories are, they all give expression to a universal hunch that we live among ghosts—whether of the past or in the form of portending presences. From Edgar Allan Poe’s timeless “The Tell-Tale Heart” to M. R. James’s “Count Magnus” to Edith Wharton’s subtly unnerving “The Eyes” these tales rise to—and in many ways define—the high water mark of the genre.Includes the full text of H. P. Lovecraft’s superb essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature, an illuminating history and exploration of the art of the weird story—along with brief author biographies.

Spectral Tales: Classic Ghost Stories

BIERCE, AMBROSE

DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN

BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON

Jacobs., W. W.

Hawthorne,Nathaniel

DICKENS., CHARLES

James et al, M. R.

The publication of The Beautiful and Damned confirmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's place in the pantheon of great American writers. The story chronicles the courtship, fraught marriage, and social demise of Anthony Patch, the presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune, and Gloria Gilbert, a ravishing society girl. Brilliant and scathing, it is a dazzling tale of lost youth and dissipation that spares no one-least of all the protagonists who resemble, in substance if not circumstance, Fitzgerald himself and his charismatic, capricious, wife, Zelda. This vivid portrait of a corrupt, rootless, and boozy age anticipates Fitzgerald's masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, and signals his fascination with the themes that would continue to animate his work. This edition includes a detailed biographical timeline of the author's life and the full text of Zelda Fitzgerald's spoof review, which appeared in the New York Tribune.

The Beautiful and Damned: Annotated Warbler Classics Edition

Fitzgerald,F.Scott

Journalist, short story writer, poet, and critic Ambrose Bierce has been called one of America’s greatest wits and an uncompromising satirist. He wrote unsparingly and with haunting realism of his Civil War experiences. His finest and most famous Civil War writings are gathered in this volume of six essays and twenty stories, including “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” “What I Saw of Shiloh,” and “A Horseman in the Sky.” Edited and with an introduction by William McCann, this annotated Warbler Classics edition also includes a detailed biographical timeline of Bierce’s life.

Ambrose Bierce's Civil War: Annoted Warbler Classics Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Five years after On the Road, the book that made him an overnight celebrity, Kerouac examines with wrenching clarity his unwished for fame, escalating alcoholism, and troubling alienation from nature. In a thinly veiled autobiographical account of his time in Big Sur at the cabin of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and with friends in San Francisco—among them fellow iconoclasts Neal Cassady, Gary Snyder, and Alan Watts—he chronicles a ruinous alcoholic bender with searing psychological candor. Kerouac displays full mastery of pace, structure, and idiom in Big Sur—a tale that ends with a crescendo as finely wrought and poignant as any in American literature. This Warbler Classics annotated edition includes a character key and a detailed biographical timeline.

Big Sur

KEROUAC,JACK

Frankenstein is the most celebrated horror story ever written and one of the best-selling books of all time. It is the tale of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist whose unbridled quest for the secret of life unleashes a creature that embodies our deepest fears about the moral bounds of human progress. Ever since the book's publication in 1818, readers have been fascinated with the iconic image of Frankenstein’s monster and the unresolved ethical questions his creation challenges us to answer. At once a cautionary tale and a gripping novel about the destructive potential in human ingenuity and the desperate search for love and attachment, Frankenstein lives on in countless re-imaginings in literature and film. This Warbler Classics edition uses Shelley’s original 1818 text and includes an afterword by Ulrich Baer, Mary Shelley's introduction to the 1831 edition, and a detailed biographical timeline.

Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

SHELLEY,MARY

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