Books in Graphyco Editions series

“How much service have I rendered to my people?”Wild Animals I Have Known is a book by naturalist and author Ernest Thompson Seton. The first entry in a new genre of realistic wild-animal fiction.Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) was an English author and wildlife artist born inSouth Shields, England. He is the founder of the Woodcraft Indians and one of the foundingpioneers of the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.

“Youth is wasted on the young.”The book Arms and the Man is a comedy which takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war. Its heroin is Raina Petkoff who is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff.George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was a prominent Irish playwright and political activist.Who had significant impact on Western theatre, politics and culture from the 1880s to hisdeath and beyond.

“Even idiots occasionally speak the truth accidentally.”In the book Whose Body?, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect at the same time a noted financier goes missing under strange circumstances.Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) was an English crime writer and poet born in Oxford, England. She was also a student of modern and classical languages.

“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”In the book Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Hume shows a debate betweenthree philosophers named Philo, Demea and Cleanthes on the nature of God’s existence.While all characters in the book agree that God exists, they differ greatly in opinion onGod’s nature on how or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity.David Hume (1711-1776) was a prominent Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and historianwho is best know for his influential system of philosophical scepticism, empiricism andnaturalism.

“We only think when confronted with a problem.”In the book Democracy and Education, Dewey claims that the core ineluctable facts of the death and birth of each one of the members in a social group play a key a role on the necessity of education. He states that even in “savage” tribes, the achievements of adults are beyond the scope of what the immature members would be capable of if they are left to themselves.John Dewey (1859-1952) was an influential American philosopher and reformer whose ideas played a significant role in social reform and education. He is seen by many as one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century.

“Time is but a mode of thought.”The enchanted castle is a country estate seen through the eyes of three children, Jimmy, Jerry and Kathy who stumble upon the castle while exploring during the school holidays.E. Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English poet and author born in Kennington, England.She wrote or co-authored more than 60 books for children’s literature.

“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”The book The Lost Prince is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. In book is aboutMarco Loristan, his father, and his friend, a street urchin called "The Rat". Marco's father, Stefan,is a Samavian patriot working to overthrow the cruel dictatorship in the kingdom of Samavia. Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was a prominent British-American playwrightand novelist. She is best known for the three children’s novels A Little Princess, LittleLord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden.

“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”The book Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by Frances Burnett, the plot takes place in a shabby New York City side street in the mid-1880s where a young boy transforms his hard-hearted aristocratic grandfather into a caring and charitable old man.Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was a prominent British-American playwright and novelist. She is best known for the three children’s novels A Little Princess, Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden.

“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”In the book An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, Hume defends his sympathybased moral sentimentalism by arguing that, we can never make moral judgments based onreason alone.David Hume (1711-1776) was a prominent Scottish Enlightenment philosopher and historianwho is best know for his influential system of philosophical scepticism, empiricism andnaturalism.

“Time is but a mode of thought.”The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children by E. Nesbit, the bookis the second in a trilogy of novels that beings with “Five Children and It” and followsthe adventures of the same children: Anthea, Lamb, Jane, Robert and Cyril.E. Nesbit (1858-1924) was an English poet and author born in Kennington, England.She wrote or co-authored more than 60 books for children’s literature.