Presents the classic novel by seventeenth-century British author, Daniel Defoe, about department store manager Octave Mouret who uses charm and deceit to exploit his female customers and staff until Denise Baudu becomes an assistant and Mouret becomes charmed by her.
The fragile society in which a British couple and an American couple live in pre-World War I Europe is ruptured, revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal.
In seventeenth-century France, Gascon soldier the Baron de Canolles fights his own personal battle as he falls for two powerful women on opposing sides of the civil war.
An annotated translation of Roman statesman, author, and orator Cicero's writings "Against Verres, I," "The Second Philippic against Antony," "On Duties, III," and "On Old Age," and twenty-three of his letters.
Cornelius von Baerle, a respectable tulip grower, is falsely accused of high treason by a bitter rival who wants to keep him from achieving the goal of cultivating the elusive black tulip, but Cornelius is able to pursue his passion from prison when he is befriended by the jailer's beautiful daughter, Rosa.
An English translation of the ancient Greek text that examines the lives of nine Greek statesmen and men of action, including Agesilaus, Pelopidas, Dion, Timoleon, Demosthenes, Phocion, Alexander, Demetrius, and Pyrrhus.
Eleanor Roosevelt's manifesto, in which, she traces the country's struggle to embrace democracy and she speaks out against fear, timidity, complacency, and national arrogance.
A stage adaptation of the drama "An Enemy of the People" by Henrik Ibsen in which a Norwegian doctor is shunned by the townspeople after he discovers their famous spring water is really poisoned.
