Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.

One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond.

As a working unit you are a kind of one-man business corporation made up of two departments, the mental and the physical.

Imagination relates either to the past, the present or the future. On the one hand, it is the outright re-imagery in the mind's eye of past experiences.

Yoritomo-Tashi, whose precepts are presented in this book, ranks as one of the three greatest statesmen that Japan has ever produced.

Horatio W. Dresser was one of the most prolific writers of the New Thought Movement.

Henry Thomas Hamblin was one of the founding fathers of the New Thought Movement.

In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time.

Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense.

Heidi is a novel for children written in 1880 which remains one of the most well-known pieces of Swiss literature.

The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

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.

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 League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

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

First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.

My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works.