Vendetta!: The Story of One Forgotten

CORELLI, Marie

Literature & Fiction

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Smedley Darlington Butler (1881-1940), nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye," was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. By the end of his career he had received 16 medals, five of which were for heroism. He is one of 19 people to be twice awarded the Medal of Honor, one of three to be awarded both the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and the Medal of Honor, and the only person to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions. He became widely-known for his outspoken lectures against war profiteering, U.S. military adventurism and what he viewed as nascent fascism in the United States. In addition to his speeches to pacifist groups, from 1935 to 1937 he served as a spokesman for the American League Against War and Fascism. In 1935, he wrote the exposé "War Is a Racket," a trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare.

War is a Racket: The Profit Motive Behind Warfare

Butler, Smedley

United States

"The Beautiful and Damned", first published in 1922, was F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It tells the story of Anthony Patch (a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune), his relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. The novel provides an excellent portrait of the Eastern elite as the Jazz Age begins its ascent, engulfing all classes into what will soon be known as Café Society. As with all of his other novels, it is a brilliant character study and is also an early account of the complexities of marriage and intimacy that were further explored in "Tender Is the Night." The book is believed to be largely based on Fitzgerald's relationship and marriage with Zelda Fitzgerald.

The Beautiful and Damned: A Twentieth Century Classic

Fitzgerald,F.Scott

Classics

"In the present volume I have endeavored to set before the reader the conception of a sequence of creative action commencing with the formation of the globe and culminating in a vista of infinite possibilities attainable by every one who follows up the right line for their unfoldment." -- Thomas Troward

The Creative Process in the Individual: Faith and Creativity

Religion & Spirituality

TROWARD, THOMAS

New Age & Spirituality

The Law and the Word: The Promise of the Bible

Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in Vere Street (obviously fictional) off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth. It gives the reader an interesting insight into the everyday lives of working class Londoners at the turn of the century.

Liza of Lambeth: A Tale of London

Maugham, W.Somerset

Acadian Reminiscences: The True Story of Evangeline

Biographies & Memoirs

Voorhies, Judge Felix

Historical

Hadji Murad is a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy. It was Tolstoy's final work. The subject matter is one Hadji Murat, an Avar rebel commander who, for reasons of personal revenge, forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians he had been fighting.

Hadji Murad

TOLSTOY, LEO

Despite his success with works such as "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina," Leo Tolstoy, at age 51, looked back on his life and considered himself a failure. "A Confession" provides valuable insight into Tolstoy's thoughts and ideas as his later philosophical ideas began to evolve and change. "A Confession" was first published in 1884.

A Confession

Christian Books & Bibles

Originally published anonymously in December of 1689 (following printing conventions of the time, its title page was marked 1690), John Locke's "The Second Treatise of Civil Government" outlines a theory of political or civil society based on natural rights and contract theory.

The Second Treatise of Civil Government

Politics & Social Sciences

Locke, John

Philosophy

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