First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.
Washington Square by Henry James is the story of the gentle, dull Catherine Sloper who falls for the ambivalent Morris Townsend, who her father believes is a fortune hunter.
The niece of James Fenimore Cooper and a good friend and correspondent of Henry James, Constance Fenimore Woolson was a well known short story writer in the later part of the 19th century.
It was in the year 1869 that impressed with the degree in which, even during the last twenty years, when the world seemed wholly occupied with other matters.
This is a guide-book to joy. It is for the use of the sad, the bored, the tired, anxious, disheartened and disappointed.
If the reading of this little book encourages any on their pilgrim way; if it arouses them to greater diligence.
James Allen's All These Things Added was first published in 1903 and contains both Entering the Kingdom and The Heavenly Life, which were both later published as separate books.
It is 1750 and Daniel, the 10-year-old foundling living with Dick Bates is worried. Dick is the owner of the Peacock Alehouse in White Cross Street, Islington.
American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement.
American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement.
Written in 1919, George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is equal parts tragedy and comedy.
I could smell rotting fish, the stench of rum barrels and unwashed bodies.
Walking along a sidewalk, Thanet doesn't see the driver of the car that whacks his backside.
Quill hits the jackpot according to Liam and Kevin, when he hacks into secret files detailing joint.
Corri Dunn’s mission to distant Adhara VII begins on a downhill slide.
If only things had been different,Diane Tanner thought before discovering her alternate reality.
Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh follows four generations of the Pontifex family.
Parnassus on Wheels is a novel by Christopher Morley, published in 1917.
The Romany Rye is a fictional, yet highly autobiographical novel by George Borrow, which follows his novel Lavengro.
Life at Pontesordo was in truth not very pleasant for an ardent and sensitive little boy of nine.