The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier.

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.

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive.

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.

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

Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917.

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.

The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902.

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.

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion.

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.

Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry.

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 whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.