Author: Tenney Frank
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: rome, history, economic
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2006-02-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1596056479
ISBN-13: 9781596056473

Passenger fares seem to us to have been very low. Passengers however appear to have been responsible for their own sustenance, the quarters were probably far from luxurious and of course loss of life by shipwreck unlike loss of freight entailed no financial loss to the carrier. -from "Chapter XVI: Commerce" In this classic work-an expansion of an earlier 1920 edition-a respected classical scholar sketches the economic life of the Roman culture through the republican period and into the fourth century of the empire. Though later books unfairly supplanted it, this volume remains an excellent

Authors:Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Gray, Charles W. Eliot,
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: classics, vol, volumes, shelf, foot, poetry, chaucer, five, english
Number of Pages: 482
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1616401559
ISBN-13: 9781616401559

Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926), Harvard University’s longest-serving president. Also known as "Dr. Eliot’s Five Foot Shelf," it represented Eliot’s belief that a basic liberal education could be gleaned by reading from an anthology of works that could fit on five feet of bookshelf. Volume XL is the first of three volumes that ambitiously sur

Author: Joseph A. Seiss
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: revelation, book, lectures, apocalypse
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2007-03-01
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1602061432
ISBN-13: 9781602061439

Originally published in three volumes from 1870 to 1884, J.A. Seiss’s lectures on the Apocalypse were among the first popular works based upon the futurist interpretation of Revelation. Considered by modern evangelical scholars to be among the most influential, the collected lectures have been called "a monumental work," "thoroughly scholarly and spiritual," and "the highest type of scholarship." For Bible students, teachers, and Christians of all types, this is the work to turn to for understandable, in-depth explanations of the most intriguing book of the Bible. American Luthe

Author: Otto von Bismarck
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: volume, statesman, amp, man, bismarck
Number of Pages: 388
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1602066957
ISBN-13: 9781602066953

OTTO EDUARD LEOPOLD VON BISMARCK (1815¿1898) was born into a family that had belonged to the nobility from the 14th century. He studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Berlin, and later served as prime minister of Prussia, from 1862 to 1873, and as Germany¿s first chancellor, from 1871 to 1890. In this two-volume set, Otto von Bismarck gives a full account of his life, from his formative years through to his resignation from the office of chancellor. Bismarck spent many years editing and revising the story of his life before arriving at this final product. He explains how the i

Author: Ednah D. Cheney
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: alcott, louisa, life
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2010-07-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1616402512
ISBN-13: 9781616402518

She wrote some of the most beloved stories of all time-Little Women and Little Men-and some sensationalistic (but lesser known) potboilers that still thrill: A Long Fatal Love Chase, Pauline’s Passion and Punishment, and others. Novelist Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) is an American treasure, one of the best known novelists of the 19th century and an essential figure in the literature and the social movements (early feminism; abolition) of her day. This early biography, by American writer EDNAH DOW LITTLEHALE CHENEY (1824-1904) and first published in 1888, explores and gives context to

Author: Ethelbert William Bullinger
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: apocalypse, revelation, commentary
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1602069484
ISBN-13: 9781602069480

With a surprising number of people professing a belief that we are living in the Biblical End Times, this lively 1902 deconstruction of the Book of Revelation is even more relevant than ever. Analyzing the final chapters of the Bible on a verse-by-verse basis-and finding much to be contentious about, particularly when it comes to other interpretations of the book-Bullinger reveals a powerful, devotional way to approach Revelation. British clergyman ETHELBERT WILLIAM BULLINGER (1837-1913) was one of the most respected Bible scholars of the 19th century. He is author of numerous works includi

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Keywords: nature, human
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1602063508
ISBN-13: 9781602063501

Publisher: London : G. Allen