The Lectures embraced in this volume, were written for the pulpit, in the usual manner of preparation for such labor, without any expectation of their appearing in print.

A religion of just being kind would be a pretty good religion, don't you think so?

Man is just what he thinks himself to be; he is big in capacity if he thinks big thoughts; he is small if he thinks small thoughts.

The desire of happiness, beyond all doubt, is a natural desire.

The Mastery of Destiny embodies New Thought writer James Allen's teachings that our thoughts can be used to increase our capabilities and to create our lives as we desire them to be.

The Return of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' second novel in the series starring the man raised by apes, and the story picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off.

The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.

Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society.

The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.

IT may possibly be thought, that there is no great need of going about to define or describe the Will.

The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this book.

There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.

Back when I was a kid growing up in South Chicago, I never dreamed that having a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother would turn out to be an asset.

The unusual thing about the collection Quite Contrary is the range of subgenre.

An Old West adventure set in the rugged Palo Duro Canyon of Texas.

H. G. Wells' comic 1910 novel, The History of Mr. Polly, stars Alfred Polly, a timid man who is more successful at daydreaming than working in the local draper's shops.

Student! Your life is your own. You have only yourself to thank for what you are, have been and will be.

Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.

Sara Crewe's young but doting father sends her to a London boarding school when she is seven.

Published in 1901, M. P. Shiel's The Purple Cloud is an early last man science fiction novel.