Charles Featherstone

There have been many translators of Chinese literature and poetry over time, but Arthur W...

Mankind can rule itself without the force of top-down authority, and freedom is more than...

Collected here are six tales that span nearly two thousand years, from a Roman citizen wr...

Five speeches from a millennium shaped by faith and empire.632CE. In Muhammed’s far...

Five speeches from the legendary orators Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cicero, and ...

Six speeches about freedom and revolution from the American, French and Irish revolutions...

No discussion of the 19th Century is complete without Napoleon. We begin with Charles Phi...

The late 19th Century was a time of liberation. After the collapse of empires, people of ...

The birth of liberation movements in the C19th saw a rise in fighting for the rights of w...

The Renaissance gave us a lot of things, including the earliest science fiction that rela...

One of the first recorded alien visitor stories, from Japan in around 900 AD. Taken from ...

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett was born into a very unusual situation in 1878. He was ...

Includes the collections Nowadays, Tales of War, & Unhappy Far-Off Things The great ...

The very first sci fi, written at the height of people making stuff up and prtending it w...

Niels Klim's Journey Under The Ground. By Louis Holberg, 1741. Tr. John Gierlow. 1845.Bei...

Written in 1835, this is a unique example of sci-fi wrtten by a man much better known for...

One of the four central works in Daoism. The Lie-Tzu, or Liezi, was originally thought to...

Six months ago, I had never heard the name Eugene Debs. Today, I believe he is one of the...

There are many versions of this work in English, and it is included as a useful reflectio...

The founding classic of modern editing practice.From the wikiThe Elements of Style is an ...

Why do we write? What does it mean to be a writer?This book contains no useful tips on gr...

A great primer on the history of Japanese art as it evolved under the Buddhist (and later...

In 1638, in the first age of modern astronomy, as the starts opened up to us, the scienti...

A dive into one of China's great poets by the first great populariser of Chinese literatu...

Martin Luther and John Calvin are household names, of a type where people have no idea ab...

IntroductionWhile compiling and narrating these speeches, I've often been struck by how e...

In a utopian future society, where all social unrest has been engineered away, a man has ...