The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from the rush of life.

Dagny Taggart Jamison is a private investigator born on the day.

The Excellency of Christ is a famous sermon given by Jonathan Edwards.

Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, more commonly known as Francois.

Liza Casey called in to report a double homicide today.

The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote.

Henry Johnson is a rugged, hard-working and lonely man.

H. G. Wells' 1901 science fiction novel The First Men in the Moon tells the story of a voyage to the moon by Mr. Bedford, a businessman plagued by financial problems, and Dr. Cavor, a brilliant and somewhat eccentric scientist.

Retells the Old Testament story in which Sheba visits Solomon to test his wisdom.

John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga collects together three novels and two interludes.

The theory of taking off fat is the simplest theory in the world.

Most people consider life a battle - but it is not a battle, it is a game.

Violence and sex in a small Southern city. Arkie, Clemmie, Oxie, and Johns are linked by a schoolboy.

According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils.

The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.

The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius is the only complete Latin novel to have survived to this day.

Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a broad comparative study.

The Golden Lotus

Jin Ping Mei, or The Plum in the Golden Vase (Chinese: 金瓶梅; pinyin: Jīn Píng Méi, also translated as The Golden Lotus) is a Chinese naturalistic novel composed in vernacular Chinese during the late Ming Dynasty.

Opening with the famous line This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

Arnold Bennett's The Grand Babylon Hotel, from 1902, tells the story of a German prince mysteriously disappearing.