Letters on England gathers together Voltaire's essays about his time in England between 1726 and 1728.

While Bram Stoker didn't invent the vampire, his 1897 novel Dracula has been the defining force in the popularity and evolution of vampire mythology today.

Considered by many to contain pioneering works of English writing, Robert Louis Stevenson's New Arabian Nights collects together his short stories that were originally published in periodicals between 1877 and 1880.

The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse.

The Sonnets compiles 154 Sonnets written by Shakespeare on all manner of themes from love and fidelity to politics and lineage.

Jack London's White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog's journey from wildness into becoming civilized by humanity.

The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular book and is considered by many to be his best.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story.

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life places before the reader in a handy form an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works.

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

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123).

G.K. Chesterton lends his witty, astute and sardonic prose to the much loved figure of Saint Francis of Assis.

One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production.

IT may possibly be thought, that there is no great need of going about to define or describe the Will.

A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.

British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

Nothing comes amiss in the great business of preparation, if it has been thoroughly well learned.

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.