The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote.
H. G. Wells' 1901 science fiction novel The First Men in the Moon tells the story of a voyage to the moon by Mr. Bedford, a businessman plagued by financial problems, and Dr. Cavor, a brilliant and somewhat eccentric scientist.
John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga collects together three novels and two interludes.
The theory of taking off fat is the simplest theory in the world.
According to the great horror writer H.P. Lovecraft The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils.
The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius is the only complete Latin novel to have survived to this day.
Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a broad comparative study.
Opening with the famous line This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer.
The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - the ghosts of all great 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.
Sheridan Le Fanu's historical mystery novel The House by the Churchyard was written in 1863.
We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case.
A Russian prince returns to Saint Petersburg after a long absence in Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment for epilepsy.
The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself.
The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.
You, my love, will be poor, so as to be more like all other women. In order for us to live together I shall work all day and so be your servant.
This first novel in Sax Rohmer's series, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu combined together previously written short stories into a single story about the dealings of this criminal mastermind.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789.
H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this.