A Russian prince returns to Saint Petersburg after a long absence in Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment for epilepsy.
The Sonnets compiles 154 Sonnets written by Shakespeare on all manner of themes from love and fidelity to politics and lineage.
The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first published novel and the first ever publishing phenomenon with illegal copies, theatrical performances and merchandise.
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.
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).
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.
Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.
The whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.
Never was there such great need for a mighty, Pentecostal revival in all our Churches; and the key to such a revival is earnest personal work.
G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.
The Duchess of Malfi was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century.
Sylvie and Bruno is set in Victorian England and in Fairyland, each setting with their own narrative.
A Room with a View is a romance and a social critique of Edwardian society.