This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

In this collection of stories, a Sherlock Holmes-like character, Father Brown solves crimes by placing himself inside the criminals mind and attempting to understand his motives. Although he wrote many stories, Father Brown is G. K. Chesterton's best known character...

Confucius dealt with neither theology nor metaphysics, but with moral and political conduct. His sayings, or analects, form the foundation of much of subsequent Chinese speculation on the education and comportment of the ideal man, how such an individual should live his life and interact with others, and the forms of society and government in which he should participate. ..

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

Kate Chopin's most famous work, The Awakening, deals with the constraints placed on women in late nineteenth-century America. Edna Pontellier, the central character, rejects her marriage and in the end chooses personal freedom...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

Written by seventeenth-century master of French classical tragedy Pierre Corneille, Polyeucte is set in Armenia during a period of Christian persecution by the Roman Empire. Polyeucte is a Christian martyr torn between his desire for glory and his family. ..

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

When Moby Dick, an enormous albino whale, takes the leg of whaler Captain Ahab during a botched hunt, the Captain vows revenge. Told retrospectively through the eyes of Ishmael, a crewman aboard Ahab's ship, Herman Melville's Moby Dick explores the ruthless quest of Captain Ahab to kill the whale and prove the dominion of Man over animals...

First published in 1859, On Liberty has remained continuously in print. In it, John Stuart Mill argues that individuals should have moral and economic freedom from the government. ..