Museum Collections

Stoicism, a school of Hellenistic thought founded in Athens in the third century BC, was one of the most sublime philosophies in the history of Western civilization. It is a way of living that focuses on reality instead of fantasy or idealism. According to its teachings, the path to peace and happiness is found in accepting the moment as it presents itself, by not allowing oneself to be ruled by the desire for pleasure or by the fear of pain.

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The saints, the heroes of the Roman Catholic faith, lived lives of holiness, dedicated to serving God. The saints lived at different times in different places throughout history, but they all shared a love of God that has been documented through the teachings of the Church. Today, the saints serve as examples for all Catholics, showing the believers how to lead a more spiritual life. Catholic devotions are particular customs, rituals and practices of worship or in honour of the saints that are in addition to the liturgy of the Catholic Church.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary critic. Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, several plays, plus 4,000 essays and newspaper columns. He was a columnist for the Daily News and The Illustrated London News.

The Socialism Collection brings together nine major works from the socialist, communist, and radical political traditions. Together these works present some of the most influential and controversial arguments in modern political history.

The Big Game Hunting Collection contains three classic accounts of dangerous animals, wilderness travel, and hunting in Africa and India. These works belong to the older tradition of exploration and hunting memoir, combining adventure, natural observation, colonial-era travel, and the constant tension between human beings and the wild.

The New Testament Apocrypha Collection brings together four important early Christian and apocryphal texts. These works are not part of the New Testament canon, but they played an important role in Christian history, devotion, legend, controversy, and the study of early religious literature.

The Practical Stoicism Collection brings together three essential works from the Stoic tradition. Together these works offer one of the clearest entrances into Stoicism: live according to reason, master the passions, accept what cannot be changed, and cultivate the inner freedom of a disciplined soul.

The Novella Masterworks Collection gathers seventeen classic short novels and novellas from world literature.

The Classic Oral Tradition Mega Collection gathers ancient epics, mythological works, fairy tales, folk traditions, and Native American stories from across cultures.

The Reconstruction Essentials Collection gathers ten works on slavery, emancipation, race, memory, leadership, and the long aftermath of the Civil War. This collection offers a powerful body of testimony and historical reflection on the central struggles of nineteenth-century America.

The Henrik Ibsen Collection brings together two of the Norwegian dramatist's most famous and influential works. Together these plays show Ibsen's extraordinary range, from mythic fantasy and poetic adventure to psychological realism and social critique.

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics and government.

The Anarchist Collection brings together major works by Peter Kropotkin and Emma Goldman, two of the most influential figures in the history of anarchist thought. The collection is a wide-ranging introduction to classic anarchist theory and its enduring challenge to centralized power.

The St John Chrysostom Mega Collection gathers sixteen works by one of the greatest preachers and theologians of the early Church. This collection displays Chrysostom's brilliance as preacher, pastor, moral teacher, and defender of the Christian life.

The Conservation Essentials Collection brings together six classics of American nature writing, wilderness reflection, and early conservation thought. Together these works trace a line from personal communion with nature to the broader conservation ethic that helped shape modern environmental thought.

The Classic Existentialism Mega Collection brings together foundational works of philosophical self-examination, moral challenge, faith, despair, freedom, and individual responsibility.

Indian Captivity Narratives Collection gathers three powerful firsthand accounts of capture, survival, displacement, and return on the American frontier. Together these works offer a revealing, often painful view of colonial and frontier America, religious interpretation, cultural encounter, and the literary tradition of captivity narratives.

The pioneering advocate of wilderness preservation, John Muir (1838-1914) was influential in the creation of many national parks.

Andrew Murray (1828-1917) was a South African writer, teacher, and Christian pastor. This Best Of collection comprises seven of his most trenchant books.