William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel.

Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition.

Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple became a huge seller in America from its first publication there in 1794, subsequently going through over two hundred editions.

UNCONSCIOUSLY we are forming habits every moment of our lives. Some are habits of a desirable nature; some are those of a most undesirable nature.

It was in the year 1869 that impressed with the degree in which, even during the last twenty years, when the world seemed wholly occupied with other matters.

Four lively youngsters enjoy activities on a typical day at school.

Born in Exile is an 1892 novel by George Robert Gissing, a prominent realist author of late-Victorian England who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903.

A GREAT BOOK is a living organism. Months, years, or centuries may go into its gestation.

The Bhagavad Gita, one of the most sacred and venerated Hindu texts, is a series of conversations.

Beyond Lies the Wub was the first story ever published by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

Bel Ami was the second published novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant.

John Stuart Mill (1806 1873) was a great liberal thinker of the nineteenth century.

In Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core the narrator tells of his travels in the Sahara where he encounters David Innes, the pilot of an amazing vehicle and the owner of a remarkable story.

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher.

Anticipations: Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought.

An Unsocial Socialist begins in an unruly girl's school, comically portraying their tricks and pranks.

The whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.

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