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.

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123).

G.K. Chesterton lends his witty, astute and sardonic prose to the much loved figure of Saint Francis of Assis.

One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production.

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

A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.

British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

Nothing comes amiss in the great business of preparation, if it has been thoroughly well learned.

Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.

To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand.

The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines.

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines tells of a group of adventurers journeying into unexplored Africa in order to find the missing brother of one of the party.

In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that my life from this point onward has been so public.

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.