Tarzan of the Apes is Edgar Rice Burroughs' first novel in the series starring the man raised by apes.

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.

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art.

In America, in 1770, a well-defined aristocracy held control.

Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance.

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.

Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption.

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.

There never was anybody, wrote the Spectator, who had adventures as well as Miss Bird.

William Morris was an English writer, architect, and artist and was integral to the birth of socialism in Great Britain.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes collects together eleven stories detailing the famous exploits and adventures of Baker Street's greatest detective.

The Valley of Fear is the last Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in book form in 1915.

THERE is a power lying hidden in man, by the use of which he can rise to higher and better things.

Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome.

Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow collects together eight Sherlock Holmes stories.

Thus Spake Zarathustra is an important philosophical text by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society.

The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story.

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.