" Mere light sophistry is the thing that I happen to despise most of all things, and it is perhaps a wholesome fact that this is the thing of which…

A pioneer of fantasy literature, MacDonald was the mentor of Lewis Carroll and influenced the work of many other notable writers including J. M. Barrie, Mark Twain, C. S. Lewis…

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This 1843 novella by Charles Dickens tells the tale of an elderly miser named Ebenezer Scrooge who is transformed into a kinder, gentler man after receiving visitations from his former…

The story revolves around the titular character and spans his growth from infancy to maturity, chronicling the people and places of his life as he develops as a person. Commonly…

The author weaves together excerpts from G. K. Chesterton’s writings on a wide variety of topics to illustrate Chesterton’s skill as a ‘complete thinker’, to synthesize disparate ideas and disciplines…

This 1843 novella by Charles Dickens tells the tale of an elderly miser named Ebenezer Scrooge who is transformed into a kinder, gentler man after receiving visitations from his former…

Collected here, in one volume are Gilbert K. Chesterton?s most influential works of fiction. Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of…