Bizarre sexual parables, hilarious science fiction, fables, text-tangles, dirty stories.

Welcome to 1984 and the town of South Wakefield.

By 1987, David Bowie was at a creative, critical, and commercial low.

In the 1950s, in Las Vegas, a businessmens conglomerate dominating a $25 million-a-year sports industry.

Any look at Stephen Harper and the new Conservative party requires an examination.

The joke? Toronto thinks its the centre of some multicultural universe.

Tired of the government taxing all of your hard-earned money?

Buddhism passed into Japan from China and Korea about 1320 years ago, in or about the year A.D. 552.

What Do You Want Most? Is It Money, Fame, Power, Contentment, Personality, Peace of Mind, Happiness?

A successful man is always asked - What is the secret of your success? People never ask a man who is a failure, What is the secret of your failure?

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.

Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures.

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.

So, what if you're Jonathan Prophet, a widower, a father (three beautiful girls, including 8-year-old twins), and a deputy sheriff in Vidalia County, Georgia.

If the reading of this little book encourages any on their pilgrim way; if it arouses them to greater diligence.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories.

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.