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

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

Considered by many to contain pioneering works of English writing, Robert Louis Stevenson's New Arabian Nights collects together his short stories that were originally published in periodicals between 1877 and 1880.

While Bram Stoker didn't invent the vampire, his 1897 novel Dracula has been the defining force in the popularity and evolution of vampire mythology today.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Buddhism is a religion which must be viewed from many angles.

Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow collects together eight Sherlock Holmes stories.

Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures.

Doctor Pascal concludes Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart series.

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

AS a man chooses his coat for its wearing qualities or for the moment's passing whim, so does he choose his destiny.

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

THERE is a power lying hidden in man, by the use of which he can rise to higher and better things.

When man can see through and understand what exists beneath the surface of his life, the expression of his deeper life will begin.

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

The Valley of Fear is the last Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in book form in 1915.