Some years ago this book was born into thought by the perception of its fundamental principle, and it has been growing ever since.
The runaway bestseller The Magic Story was first published in 1900 in Success Magazine. It has been constantly in print ever since.
H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this.
H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term time machine.
What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable?
Tarzan of the Apes is Edgar Rice Burroughs' first novel in the series starring the man raised by apes.
The Return of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' second novel in the series starring the man raised by apes, and the story picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off.
It is a curious fact that of that class of literature to which Munchausen belongs, that namely of Voyages Imaginaires, the three great types should have all been created in England.
Heidi is a novel for children written in 1880 which remains one of the most well-known pieces of Swiss literature.
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle starring the great detective of Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes. Wealthy landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the parkland surrounding his manor.
A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton.
The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.
Jane Eyre is raised in her aunt's house after the death of her parents.
Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.
Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption.
Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by Walt Whitman originally published in 1855 at the poet's own expense.
The Land That Time Forgot is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel that starts out as a nerve-wracking wartime naval adventure but develops into the story of a unique and mysterious prehistoric lost world.
Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 masterpiece following the ranting, slightly unhinged memoir of an isolated, anonymous civil servant.
There never was anybody, wrote the Spectator, who had adventures as well as Miss Bird.
Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw.