Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote Candide in ridicule of the notion.

Mariano Azuela, the first of the novelists of the Revolution, was born in Lagos de Moreno.

Originally this was published by the author (1784-1849), a former governor of South Carolina.

The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist that it had one out of the three.

From the text: I have now been in India for over two years and a half after my return.

Written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758, The Way to Wealth collects together Franklin's adages.

The Enchiridion, or Handbook was written by a student of Epictetus in the 2nd century.

Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

The Lady and the Pirate is a romance adventure novel from the well-known American author.

This volume is full of the most fascinating romances of achievement under difficulties.

Execute your resolutions immediately. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

Architects of Fate, or, Steps to Success and Power, by Orison Swett Marden, is a book.

Initially banned in his home country The Kingdom of God Is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's great non-fiction.

A recognized Latin American history masterpiece The History of the Conquest of Peru.

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America is a classic text detailing the United States of the 1830s.

Educational leaders are seeing with increasing clearness the necessity of teaching students.

The Swiss Family Robinson tells the story of a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies.

We do not pretend that a man will be metamorphosed into a gentleman by reading this book.

Ragged Dick was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate.