Classic Biography

“The fire must be kept burning on the altar continually; it must not be extinguished" (Leviticus 6:13). When John Wesley was asked why multitudes collapsed in repentance under his preaching, he gave a simple answer: “I just set myself on fire, and they come to watch me burn.” Across the centuries, God has raised up men and women who burned with that same holy flame—believers whose lives ignited movements, shook nations, and awakened the Church. From Count Zinzendorf and Jonathan Edwards to Charles Finney, Evan Roberts, William Seymour, Smith Wigglesworth, Kathryn Kuhlman, and so ...

Abridged Edition Curated Selections from the definitive, career-spanning collection of writing from Anthony Bourdain, assembled for the first time and read by Tony with Dion Graham, Kimberly Witherspoon, Kaleo Griffith, David Colacci, and Chris Patton. Anthony Bourdain represented many things to...

Most readers have heard of Ulysses. Few have actually read it. This edition is for both. Published in Paris in 1922, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin — June 16, 1904 — and in doing so dismantles every assumption about what a novel can be and do. Stream of consciousness, interior monologue, parody, myth, obscenity, tenderness, comedy: Joyce deploys them all simultaneously, not as technique but as necessity. He was not being difficult. He was being honest about the way a mind actually works. Ulysses — One day. One city. One man buying a kidney for breakfast, ...

Grab your lace shawl and top hat and get ready to twirl—this is a full-throttle appreciation of the life and voice of Stevie Nicks from one of rock criticism’s most celebrated writers.

Best-selling author and Rolling Stone columnist Rob Sheffield explores the music and artistry of the rock goddess who has kept generations of music lovers totally bewitched and spellbound, with such classic rock hits as "Rhiannon" and "Gypsy".

This is the autobiographical novel by Harriet Wilson, the first African-American to publish a novel in North America. Originally published in 1859, it was rediscovered in 1982.

This is a short and honest account of how God demonstrated his exceeding great mercy to his unworthy servant John Bunyan. This story specifically tells how Bunyan was converted. John Bunyan was a companion of sin and was troubled by sin. He fought temptation and sin in his own strength and lost, and in despair, he gave up hope of ever finding God’s mercy; but the Lord Jesus Christ at last delivered him from the guilt and terror that so often and so viciously troubled him.

A timeless journey of self-discovery—presented in a new translation with expanded material exploring Hermann Hesse, Jungian archetypes, and Eastern philosophy. Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha follows a young man's search for wisdom, meaning, and inner freedom. Set in India during the time of the Buddha, the novel traces Siddhartha's journey through spiritual discipline, love, wealth, disappointment, and self-discovery as he learns that wisdom cannot simply be taught—it must be experienced. At the heart of the novel is a powerful question: How do we find our own path? Hesse explores the ...

Six novels. One life. The complete arc of the most beloved heroine in Canadian literature — from the red-haired girl who arrived uninvited at Green Gables to the woman who sent her sons to war. Lucy Maud Montgomery published Anne of Green Gables in 1908 after years of rejection. The manuscript had been turned down so many times she had put it away in a hat box. When it finally appeared, it sold out within months and made her famous overnight. She spent the rest of her life writing sequels she hadn't planned, living a life considerably less free than the one she had imagined for Anne. Anne...

The most elegant autopsy of a society ever written — and the novel that made Edith Wharton the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. New York, 1870s. Newland Archer is a lawyer from a good family, engaged to the perfectly suitable May Welland, living exactly the life his world has prepared for him. Then May's cousin Ellen Olenska arrives — separated from her European husband, dangerously independent, indifferent to the rituals that hold Old New York together. Newland falls in love with her. Nothing violent happens. No one raises their voice. The novel is the story of how a society ...

From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as remarkable as his music, which transformed the sound of a generation. For half a century Eric Clapton has been acknowledged to be one of music's greatest virtuosos, the...

Most frontier memoirs are episodic — a man rides out, something happens, he rides back, and the chapters pile up until he's old. This one has a shape. A party takes a shortcut that turns out not to exist. It is trapped in a waterless basin with no way west. Two young men walk out on foot to find help, and they come back. Everyone who waited for them lives. It is the only complete narrative arc — danger through crossing to arrival — among the frontier accounts in this series. William Lewis Manly published it in 1894, forty-five years after the events, at seventy-three. The book knows ...

Every word Oscar Wilde published — the novel, the plays, the poems, the essays, the fairy tales, and the two masterpieces he wrote in disgrace — in a single authoritative edition. Oscar Wilde lived two lives simultaneously: the most celebrated wit in Victorian London, and a man whose inner life was at war with everything the society around him demanded. He understood, better than almost anyone before or since, that style is not decoration but argument — that how you say something is inseparable from what you are saying. He paid for that understanding with two years in Reading Gaol and...

The fall of Troy. A hero carrying his father out of the flames. A queen on a burning pyre. The founding of the greatest empire the world has known. Virgil's Aeneid is the poem that gave Rome its myth and gave Europe one of its founding epics — the story of Aeneas, the Trojan prince who escapes his city's ruin and sails west, through storm and war and the underworld itself, to found the race that will become Rome. This Erato Press edition presents the Aeneid complete in the classic verse translation of John Dryden, with an original critical essay and a life of the poet. THE POEM From the ...

"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places." It is the novel that made Ernest Hemingway the defining voice of his generation — and one of the greatest love stories, and war stories, ever written. On the Italian front in the First World War, Frederic Henry, a young American serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army, meets Catherine Barkley, an English nurse. What begins almost as a game becomes the one true thing in a world that is coming apart. Around them the war grinds on toward catastrophe — the disastrous retreat from Caporetto, the rain,...

Christian Theology - Church History - Saint Augustine - Christian Philosophy - Spiritual Classics - Patristics - Religious Biography - History of Ideas What turns a restless young man into one of the most influential voices in Western thought? Saint Augustine Made Easy brings together four accessible, elegant, and deeply engaging books for readers who want to understand Augustine of Hippo without getting lost in academic complexity. This box follows the full arc of a life marked by ambition, doubt, desire, conversion, controversy, and an unending search for truth. In Saint Augustine, Life, ...

The four novels that gave American literature its voice — and two essays that explain why one of them changed everything. Mark Twain invented American literature twice. The first time was The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 1876 — a boy's world of summer, caves, and the Mississippi River, told with the warmth of a man who remembered childhood as a country you could never return to. The second time was Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884, where the same river becomes a moving argument about freedom, race, and the cost of conscience. Hemingway said all modern American literature comes from...

The most important literary biography in the English language — written by a novelist about a novelist, by a friend about a friend, and published four months after Charlotte Brontë's death. When Elizabeth Gaskell sat down in 1855 to write the life of Charlotte Brontë, she faced a problem no biographer had faced before: her subject was both a woman and a genius, in an age that was uncertain whether those two things could coexist. The woman who had written Jane Eyre — who had scandalized reviewers, been accused of coarseness and immorality, been suspected of being a man — needed to be...

Suddenly the music is not notes or a tune, but what those seven people are exactly: the music is an aural holograph of the Grateful Dead. All their fibers, nuances, histories, desires, beings are clear. Jerry and his questing, Phil the loyal comrade, Tom drifting beside them both on a cloud, Pig staying stubbornly down to earth; Mickey working out furious complexities trying to understand how Bill is so simple, and Bob succumbing inevitably to Jerry and Phil and joining them.

The complete fiction of one of the greatest novelists in the English language — all eight novels, both novellas, and the late prose of George Eliot, gathered in a single annotated volume with original critical essays for every work. Mary Ann Evans (1819–1880), writing as George Eliot, created the most intellectually ambitious fiction of the Victorian age. Virginia Woolf called Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people." This Erato Press edition brings together the whole of her fiction, complete and unabridged, and surrounds it with a critical apparatus ...

One of the founding works of modern science fiction — and one of the greatest adventure novels ever written. In 1866, ships of every nation begin to sink in deep ocean. A monstrous creature — vast, phosphorescent, faster than any vessel — is glimpsed in the waters of the world. The American government sends out the frigate Abraham Lincoln to hunt it down. On board: the French marine biologist Pierre Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner Ned Land. What they find is not a creature. It is a submarine — the Nautilus — captained by a brilliant, embittered, ...