In the South Seas is a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.
G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.
IT may possibly be thought, that there is no great need of going about to define or describe the Will.
Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123).
The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.
What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable?