Some years ago this book was born into thought by the perception of its fundamental principle, and it has been growing ever since.

H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this.

H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term time machine.

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.

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.

The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.

Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw.

The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers.

When Robert Browning first met the ailing Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 it must have seemed to him like something from a gothic novel.

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.

Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.

The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier.

The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this book.

Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion.

This little book contains three plain sermons which were preached in New York in the Easter season of 1919, in the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which my son is minister.

A Room with a View is a romance and a social critique of Edwardian society.

Scottish writer Andrew Lang is best remember for his prolific collections of folk and fairy tales, but he was also an accomplished poet, literary critic, novelist and contributor in the field of anthropology.

Written in 1919, George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is equal parts tragedy and comedy.