AS a man chooses his coat for its wearing qualities or for the moment's passing whim, so does he choose his destiny.

Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome.

Doctor Pascal concludes Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart series.

Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow collects together eight Sherlock Holmes stories.

Buddhism is a religion which must be viewed from many angles.

Inspiring countless business, political and military leaders (Napoleon, Mao Zedong and General MacArthur among them), The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu from the 6th century BC.

Thus Spake Zarathustra is an important philosophical text by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy.

Letters on England gathers together Voltaire's essays about his time in England between 1726 and 1728.

While Bram Stoker didn't invent the vampire, his 1897 novel Dracula has been the defining force in the popularity and evolution of vampire mythology today.

Considered by many to contain pioneering works of English writing, Robert Louis Stevenson's New Arabian Nights collects together his short stories that were originally published in periodicals between 1877 and 1880.

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse.

The Sonnets compiles 154 Sonnets written by Shakespeare on all manner of themes from love and fidelity to politics and lineage.

Jack London's White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog's journey from wildness into becoming civilized by humanity.

The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular book and is considered by many to be his best.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story.

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life places before the reader in a handy form an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works.

Poise is a power derived from the Mastery of Self.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) is remembered best for his sharp wit, his comedic plays and for his contribution to aestheticism and decadence.

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.