Barnes & Noble library of essential reading

Presents a series of writings by Benjamin Franklin covering the years 1733 to 1758 that contains bits of wisdom along with proverbs, poems, and astronomical and astrological information.

In Agatha Christie's first book, Hercule Poirot solves a baffling murder at an English country home.

Presents a republication of the 1909 collection of Northern mythology as preserved in the Eddas and sagas of Iceland.

Provides English translations of two of Rene Descartes' key philosophical writings that examine the nature and extent of human knowledge, the distinction between mind and body, the existence of God, and the existence of external objects.