Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.
To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand.
The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines.
H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines tells of a group of adventurers journeying into unexplored Africa in order to find the missing brother of one of the party.
In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that my life from this point onward has been so public.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.
There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.
There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.
The whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.
Never was there such great need for a mighty, Pentecostal revival in all our Churches; and the key to such a revival is earnest personal work.
Although considered by many to be Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest work of literature, Weir of Hermiston was left unfinished by its author's untimely death in 1894.
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.
The Duchess of Malfi was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611.
Sylvie and Bruno is set in Victorian England and in Fairyland, each setting with their own narrative.
The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.
Howards End is a masterful discussion of changing social class-consciousness.
The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity.
The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands.
Chrétien de Troyes' Four Arthurian Romances continued and expanded on existing Arthurian legends, but began the Arthurian Romance genre, so popular in Medieval literature.
From the author: My aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with limitations of space.