Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends.
A Princess of Mars is the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. This science fiction planetary romance, packed full of dangerous feats and swordplay, is set on a dying Mars.
Thomas Hardy (1840 1928) was a naturalist and writer, whose fiction sits on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution and is filled with an imminent sense of nostalgia for the coming transformation of the British countryside.
Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.
Death consists in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing.
Creative Unity is a collection of essays from Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, who in 1913 became Asia's first recipient of the Nobel Prize.
Student! Your life is your own. You have only yourself to thank for what you are, have been and will be.
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.