The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius is the only complete Latin novel to have survived to this day.

The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.

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.

Violence and sex in a small Southern city. Arkie, Clemmie, Oxie, and Johns are linked by a schoolboy.

Most people consider life a battle - but it is not a battle, it is a game.

The theory of taking off fat is the simplest theory in the world.

John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga collects together three novels and two interludes.

Retells the Old Testament story in which Sheba visits Solomon to test his wisdom.

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.

Henry Johnson is a rugged, hard-working and lonely man.

The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote.

Liza Casey called in to report a double homicide today.

Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, more commonly known as Francois.

The Excellency of Christ is a famous sermon given by Jonathan Edwards.

Dagny Taggart Jamison is a private investigator born on the day.

The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from the rush of life.

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.

The Enchiridion, or Handbook was written by a student of Epictetus in the 2nd century.

The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams.

In commencing a course of lectures on Mental Science, it is somewhat difficult for the lecturer to fix upon the best method of opening the subject.