Since its publication in 1678, The Pilgrim's Progress has never been out of print.

Tom Sawyer Abroad sees Tom, Huck Finn and Jim board a futuristic hot air balloon bound for Africa, in a parody of the popular science fiction/travel adventure stories of the time.

Tom Sawyer, Detective follows Twain's popular novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad.

In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, iconic American author Mark Twain discusses his own experience as a writer and his personal style.

The orphan Tom Sawyer, raised by his aunt, is never out of trouble for long.

Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle.

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.

The runaway bestseller The Magic Story was first published in 1900 in Success Magazine. It has been constantly in print ever since.

The Land That Time Forgot is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel that starts out as a nerve-wracking wartime naval adventure but develops into the story of a unique and mysterious prehistoric lost world.

Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw.

An Unsocial Socialist begins in an unruly girl's school, comically portraying their tricks and pranks.

Science of Mind in its broadest and truest sense includes the best in science, religion, and philosophy.

Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome.

Inspiring countless business, political and military leaders (Napoleon, Mao Zedong and General MacArthur among them), The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu from the 6th century BC.

Thus Spake Zarathustra is an important philosophical text by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy.

Letters on England gathers together Voltaire's essays about his time in England between 1726 and 1728.

Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society.

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse.

A Russian prince returns to Saint Petersburg after a long absence in Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment for epilepsy.