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The Martyr of the Catacombs is a great old Christian fiction classic text done by an anonymous author that deals with the subjects of ancient Rome and the early history of the Christian Church.This Christian classic features this opening passage: "Butchered to make a Roman holiday."It was a great festival day in Rome. From all quarters vast numbers of people came pouring forth to one common destination. Over the Capitoline Hill, through the Forum, past the Temple of Peace and the Arch of Titus and the imperial palace; on they went till they reached the Coliseum, where they entered its hundred doors and disappeared within."

The Vicar of Wakefield - subtitled A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself - is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774). It was written from 1761 to 1762 and published in 1766. It was one of the most popular and widely read 18th-century novels among Victorians.In literary history books, The Vicar of Wakefield is often described as a sentimental novel, which displays the belief in the innate goodness of human beings. But it can also be read as a satire on the sentimental novel and its values, as the vicar's values are apparently not compatible with the real "sinful" world. It is only with Sir William Thornhill's help that he can get out of his calamities. Moreover, an analogy can be drawn between Mr. Primrose's suffering and the Book of Job. This is particularly relevant to the question of why evil exists.

All Things Considered is an extensive collection of essays by the great English author and humorist G K Chesterton. This collection contains the following titles: The case for the ephemeral -- Cockneys and their jokes -- The fallacy of success -- On running after one's hat -- The vote and the house -- Conceit and caricature -- Patriotism and sport -- An essay on two cities -- French and English -- The Zola controversy -- Oxford from without -- Woman -- The modern martyr -- On political secrecy -- Thoughts around Koepenick -- The boy -- On the cryptic and the elliptic -- The worship of the wealthy -- The Methuselahite -- The error of impartiality -- Fairy tales -- Tom Jones and morality -- The Maid of Orleans -- A dead poet -- Christmas.

Aboriginal America is a great book on American history and Native American history by Jacob Abbott. The book includes this foreward: "It is the design of this work to narrate, in a clear, simple, and intelligible manner, the leading events connected with the history of our country, from the earliest periods, down, as nearly as practicable, to the present time. The several volumes will be illustrated with all necessary maps and with numerous engravings, and the work is intended to comprise, in a distinct and connected narrative, all that it is essential for the general reader to understand in respect to the subject of it, while for those who have time for more extended studies, it may serve as an introduction to other and more copious sources of information."

Anabasis is the most famous work of the Ancient Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. It narrates the expedition of a large army of Greek mercenaries hired by Cyrus the Younger to help him seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II, in 401 BC.The seven books making up the Anabasis were composed circa 370 BC. Though as an Ancient Greek vocabulary word, ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ means "embarkation", "ascent" or "mounting up", the title Anabasis is rendered in translation as The March Up Country or as The March of the Ten Thousand. The narration of the army's journey across Asia Minor and Mesopotamia is Xenophon's best known work, and "one of the great adventures in human history".

Esta historia presenta la vida de un joven agricultor llamado Naran, que con poca fortaleza y nada de habilidades de lucha, se embarca en un viaje que lo hará enfrentar sus más profundos secretos y pecados. Descubrirá que su mundo no es el único que existe, y tendrá que soportar la verdad sobre los dioses, a los que él y su pueblo han servido durante siglos. El marco de tiempo de esta historia se sitúa en el período prehispánico de México, donde aparecieron las primeras culturas con el nombre Olmeca junto con Teotihuacan, Tolteca, Zapoteca, Mixteca y Maya. También contiene algunas palabras en el dialecto náhuatl, cuya traducción puede haber cambiado al paso de los años para darle una mejor interpretación.

Old Indian Legends is a classic collection of Native American folklore stories by the Native American author and activist, Zitkala-Sa. This fine book is a tremendous repository of Native American culture and Native American mythology. Zitkála-¿á, also known by her missionary and married names Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking readership. Zitkála-¿á has been noted as one of the most influential Native American activists of the 20th century.

Rose in Bloom is a novel by Louisa May Alcott published in 1876. It depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society. It is Alcott's sequel to Eight Cousins.The story begins when Rose returns home from a long trip to Europe. Everyone has changed. As a joke, Rose lines up her seven cousins to take a long look at them, just as they did with her when they first met. The youngest, Jamie, accidentally mentions that the aunts want Rose to marry one of her cousins to keep her fortune in the family. Rose is very indignant, for she has decided ideas about what her future holds. From the beginning, she declares that she can manage her property well on her own and that she will focus on philanthropic work. Charlie has already decided she is marked out for him, with the approval of his mother.

Love, Life and Work is a great and inspirational self-help book by Elbert Hubbard that tells people how to be happy and productive. This self-help volume includes this passage.The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or "good," but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage and good will. I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected-ready to say "I do not know," if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality-to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.

Discover two adventures of Captain Marvel ( Known as Shazam currently). Adventures from 1940 (WHIZ COMICS #2 AND #7), restoration 2022. New colors, correction colors shirft. IN THIS BOOK, TWO ADVENTURES: - Introducing Captain Marvel (February 1940) After being taken by a mysterious stranger to meet the ancient wizard, Shazam, and gaining the powers of Captain Marvel, Billy Batson learns of a mysterious boss called the Phantom Scientist, and decides to report it to the head of Amalgamated Broadcasting Company. - The Squadron of Doom (August 1940) Billy investigates the mysterious disappearance of the freighter, Red Star, last seen near the coast of Greenland. There he discovers that Rodney Stark has invented a machine that slowly melts ice, freeing prehistoric men, whom he uses as slaves to build a massive airforce to attack and subdue the United States. By Comic Books Restore !

Hypatia is a fictional account of the life of the great female Greek philosopher Hypatia.Hypatia (born c. 350-370; died 415 AD) was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt, then part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was a prominent thinker of the Neoplatonic school in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy.[4] Although preceded by Pandrosion, another Alexandrine female mathematician,[5] she is the first female mathematician whose life is reasonably well recorded.[6] Hypatia was renowned in her own lifetime as a great teacher and a wise counselor. She wrote a commentary on Diophantus's thirteen-volume Arithmetica, which may survive in part, having been interpolated into Diophantus's original text, and another commentary on Apollonius of Perga's treatise on conic sections, which has not survived. Many modern scholars also believe that Hypatia may have edited the surviving text of Ptolemy's Almagest, based on the title of her father Theon's commentary on Book III of the Almagest

Steep Trails is a great natural history books by the great American naturalist John Muir that describes the mountains and forests of the western United States and the wildlife that exists there.This nature classic contains the following foreward:"The papers brought together in this volume have, in a general way, been arranged in chronological sequence. They span a period of twenty-nine years of Muir's life, during which they appeared as letters and articles, for the most part in publications of limited and local circulation. The Utah and Nevada sketches, and the two San Gabriel papers, were contributed, in the form of letters, to the San Francisco Evening Bulletin toward the end of the seventies. Written in the field, they preserve the freshness of the author's first impressions of those regions. Much of the material in the chapters on Mount Shasta first took similar shape in 1874. Subsequently it was rewritten and much expanded for inclusion in Picturesque California, and the Region West of the Rocky Mountains, which Muir began to edit in 1888. In the same work appeared the description of Washington and Oregon. The charming little essay "Wild Wool" was written for the Overland Monthly in 1875. "A Geologist's Winter Walk" is an extract from a letter to a friend, who, appreciating its fine literary quality, took the responsibility of sending it to the Overland Monthly without the author's knowledge. The concluding chapter on "The Grand Canyon of the Colorado" was published in the Century Magazine in 1902, and exhibits Muir's powers of description at their maturity."

The Philosophy of Spinoza is a definitive collection of philosophical works by the great Dutch 17th Century philosopher, Baruch de Spinoza. Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 1632 - 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi Jewish origin. One of the foremost exponents of 17th-century Rationalism and one of the early and seminal thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism including modern conceptions of the self and the universe he came to be considered "one of the most important philosophers-and certainly the most radical-of the early modern period." Inspired by the groundbreaking ideas of René Descartes, Spinoza became a leading philosophical figure of the Dutch Golden Age. Spinoza's given name, which means "Blessed", varies among different languages. In the Netherlands he used the Portuguese name Bento. In his works in Latin, he used the name Benedictus de Spinoza.

Issue 33 features the famous Joey Badass and the final book series in Preme Magazine for 2021