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Sunday July 25, 2010
Happy Independence Day to our American readers! Take advantage of the long weekend to start a new book from the ArcaMax Book Club -- it also has dozens of books commonly assigned as summer reading, so it's a great way to help your kids get ready for the new school year. For the newest and hottest summer reads, check out BookDaily.com.

This Week's Featured Books

Fiction
- A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Alice - Or, the Mysteries, Edward Bulwer Lytton
- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Non Fiction
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- England Under the Tudors, Arthur D. Innes
- Bohemian Society, Lydia Leavitt

Short Stories
- Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling
- The Four Million, O. Henry
- The Lock and Key Library, Various

Poetry
- The Aeneid, Virgil
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- The Iliad (translated by Samuel Butler), Homer

Plays
- The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan, W.S. Gilbert
- Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov
- The Sea-Gull, Anton Chekhov

Sci Fi
- Michael Strogoff, Jules Verne
- The Chessmen of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott

Philosophy
- Erewhon Revisited, Samuel Butler
- Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon

Religion
- Bible - Book 22: Proverbs, Challoner Revision
- Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Bible - Book 34: Joel, Challoner Revision

Biography
- The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Volume 2, Elizabeth Gaskell
- Edison: His Life and Inventions, Frank Lewis Dyer
- Cleopatra, Jacob Abbott

George Bernard Shaw

(July 26, 1856 - Nov. 2, 1950)

George Bernard Shaw was born to a poor Irish family, and sought his fortune in London as a writer. His first five novels were failures, but he became a drama critic not long after. He released his first successful play, "Candida," in 1898, and followed it up with many more well-known works over the course of the next fifteen years. After World War I, he left his comedies behind for more serious works. While his plays are well-loved, he is also infamous for prefacing each of his plays with a lengthy essay on his controversial political and social beliefs.

Featured book by George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion

This week's quizzes:
Shakespearean Adaptations
Shakespeare or Franklin?
The Importance of Beaing Earnest

This Week's Birthdays

Aldous Huxley -- July 26, 1894
English novelist and critic, most famous for his novel Brave New Workd.
Read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley at BookDaily.

Beatrix Potter -- July 28, 1866
English children's book author and illustrator, the creator of Peter Rabbit.
Emily Bronte -- July 30, 1818
The most famous of her three sisters, the writer of the classic novel Wuthering Heights.
Read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte at BookDaily.