A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter.
Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words.
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher and prominent social theorist of the Victorian era.
Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, prominent classical liberal political theorist.
American novelist and designer Edith Wharton traveled to Morocco after the end of World War I.
Orlando Furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando, more literally Mad Orlando.
Aeneas appears in The Illiad in vague snatches and starts as a traveling warrior of great piety.
Flappers and Philosophers is a collection of short stories by America author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The Beggar's Opera is the only ballad opera that is still popularly performed today.
Considered by critics to be one of the best tragedies of the English Renaissance.
The Book of Tea discusses the impact of Teaism on all aspects of Japanese culture and life.
The Story of My Heart is an inspiring and personal account of a soul's awakening.
The metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, written by G. K. Chesterton in 1908.
Samuel Butler's Erewhon, or Over the Range was published anonymously 1872.
Scottish writer J M Barrie wrote both a play and a novel about the boy Peter Pan.
The Little White Bird is a series of short episodes, narratives.
The Three Musketeers follows the young d'Artagnan in his quest to become a musketeer.
Typee is a fictional, but heavily autobiographical book by Herman Melville.
Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas is the sequel to Melville's Typee.
Twenty Years After is the second of the d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers.