Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a harrowing critique of social class and the powerlessness of women.

The Awakening (1899) appears in this collection of short stories.

The Worst Journey in the World is the autobiographical account of a disastrous Antarctic.

No Name is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.

When Sir Henry Ernest Shackleton was beaten to the South Pole in 1912.

The nonsensical poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) was written by Lewis Carroll.

The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope.

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels.

The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part.

The dictionaries define the word aura as: Any subtle, invisible emanation or exhalation.

Ragged Dick was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate.

We do not pretend that a man will be metamorphosed into a gentleman by reading this book.

The Swiss Family Robinson tells the story of a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies.

Educational leaders are seeing with increasing clearness the necessity of teaching students.

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America is a classic text detailing the United States of the 1830s.

A recognized Latin American history masterpiece The History of the Conquest of Peru.

Initially banned in his home country The Kingdom of God Is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's great non-fiction.

Architects of Fate, or, Steps to Success and Power, by Orison Swett Marden, is a book.

Execute your resolutions immediately. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

This volume is full of the most fascinating romances of achievement under difficulties.