There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion.

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

In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that my life from this point onward has been so public.

The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902.

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 character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines.

To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand.

Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.

Nothing comes amiss in the great business of preparation, if it has been thoroughly well learned.

British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion.

Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917.

The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this book.

A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.

IT may possibly be thought, that there is no great need of going about to define or describe the Will.

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive.

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.

G.K. Chesterton lends his witty, astute and sardonic prose to the much loved figure of Saint Francis of Assis.

The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier.