A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton.

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.

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

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19.

Our Mutual Friend was Charles Dickens' last completed novel.

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.

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott.

We do not pretend that a man will be metamorphosed into a gentleman by reading this book.

Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power!Jesus Christ emphasized the power of the word.

I suppose there is almost no one who would deny, if it were put to him.

In reading this book we may begin to see that there is nothing unnatural.

It's the future and large areas are nothing but wasteland.

When "Lucky" Luke Ray, a cocky young American pilot volunteers to fly for the French in World War I.

Sir Joshua Reynolds laid down principles of art from the point of view of a man of genius who had made his power felt, and with the clear good sense which is the foundation of all work that looks upward and may hope to live.

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art.

The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.

When is a story about a basketball player not even about basketball?

In this far-seeing novel, the nations of the near future come to 1984?

Who killed Kennedy? Many keen minds have their doubts about the findings of the Warren Commission.

With this novel, the author of Inquest and Executive Action has managed fiction-created-from-fact.