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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.