The book covers writers from various countries and old and recently-published books, both well-known and obscure. From the author of "What's Bred in the Bone".

    From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Western civilization can be found in its pages. In addition, this new edition offers a much broader representation of women authors, such as Charlotte Brontë, Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton, as well as non-Western writers such as Confucius, Sun-Tzu, Chinua Achebe, Mishima Yukio and many others. This fourth edition also features a simpler format that arranges the works chronologically in five sections (The Ancient World; 300-1600; 1600-1800; and The 20th Century), making them easier to look up than ever before. It deserves a place in the libraries of all lovers of literature.

    From hieroglyphics to the development of alphabets and the invention of movable type, this book lover's dream chronicles the evolution of language and the written word. The development of papermaking and bookbinding is also described.

    

    Vanity Fair: Selections From America's Most Memorable Magazine: A Cavalcade of the 1920s and 1930s.

    Hartwill's exploration of hermeneutics in an expanded outline form uses charts to explain such approaches to the interpretation of Scripture as the dispensational principle, the covenantal principle, the typical principle, the threefold principle, the double reference, and many more.

    

    Selections of literature expressing beauty, humor, history,wisdom or inspiration from famous people in history.