A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter.

Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words.

American novelist and designer Edith Wharton traveled to Morocco after the end of World War I.

Orlando Furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando, more literally Mad Orlando.

Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The Beggar's Opera is the only ballad opera that is still popularly performed today.

The Book of Tea discusses the impact of Teaism on all aspects of Japanese culture and life.

The Story of My Heart is an inspiring and personal account of a soul's awakening.

The metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, written by G. K. Chesterton in 1908.

Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872.

The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes, narratives.

The Three Musketeers follows the young d'Artagnan in his quest to become a musketeer.

Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee.

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

Some persons have the instinct of courtesy so largely developed.

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

H. G. Wells' Ann Veronica, first published in 1909, looks at political and feminist issues.

An education is likely to take the dramatist a great deal of time.

After having stammered for twenty years you have pretty well run the whole gamut of mockery.

Expression is one of the necessary elements of human development.