Corri Dunn’s mission to distant Adhara VII begins on a downhill slide.
If only she could encourage her students to stay awake in class.
Walking along a sidewalk, Thanet doesn't see the driver of the car that whacks his backside.
When "Lucky" Luke Ray, a cocky young American pilot volunteers to fly for the French in World War I.
The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.
Buddhism passed into Japan from China and Korea about 1320 years ago, in or about the year A.D. 552.
Selecting his cut and uncut jewels from very various Buddhistic sources, Mr. Bowden has here supplied those who buy and use the book with rubies and sapphires and emeralds of wisdom, compassion, and human brotherhood.
Causing mass hysteria as listeners of its 1938 radio broadcast believed a Martian invasion of Earth really was taking place, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is perhaps the most famous novel of its genre.
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first published novel and the first ever publishing phenomenon with illegal copies, theatrical performances and merchandise.
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.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century.
If the reading of this little book encourages any on their pilgrim way; if it arouses them to greater diligence.
A Princess of Mars is the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. This science fiction planetary romance, packed full of dangerous feats and swordplay, is set on a dying Mars.
Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).
The Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and first published in 1819.
First published in 1920, The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants.
Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, more commonly known as Francois.
It's the future and large areas are nothing but wasteland.
The Lectures embraced in this volume, were written for the pulpit, in the usual manner of preparation for such labor, without any expectation of their appearing in print.
It is a good thing for all Americans, and it is an especially good thing for young Americans, to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen.