Still regarded today as the "Prince of Preachers," Charles Spurgeon preached to tens of thousands of people. His printed sermons--widely circulated immediately after he preached them--continue to be read and loved today. But what do you know of Spurgeon's life outside of the pulpit? What influences and events shaped the man who would become such a great preacher? What factors molded his love for Christ and his ability to so eloquently exalt his Saviour? You have read Spurgeon's messages and shared his quotes. But who was he? Discover for yourself in this compelling biography written on the one hundredth anniversary of Spurgeon's birth.

These remarkable letters, written from a suffering pastor to his congregation, abound in exhortations to godliness, zeal and prayer. They provide a unique insight into Spurgeons life, and into the fervent soul-winning activity which was, alongside the preaching, a leading feature of an historic Calvinistic church. Notes on Spurgeons ministry set the letters in context, and several classic sermonettes written during sickness are included, along with 16 pages of colour pictures of original letters. - Publisher.

Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?

The life story of Dwight Lyman Moody, commoner of Northfield and a man "mightily used of God," as the introduction says. The author, Richard Ellsworth Day, led churches in California and Arizona and went on to be a general evangelist and widely-read author of the column, "Beside the Golden Gate," in The Baptist. He is also the author of The Shadow of Broad Brim, a biography of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, acclaimed as one of the greatest preachers of all time.

The Shadow Kingdom and other weird tales Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of ""a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."" He is well known for having created the character Conan the Barbarian. Meet Solomon Kane, Kull of Atlantis, Bran Mak Morn, Black Vulmea, James Allison and others in Howards weird tales of fantasy and horror. In these classics Howard spins tales of unrelenting terror, the legacy of one of the world's great masters of the macabre.