Life at Pontesordo was in truth not very pleasant for an ardent and sensitive little boy of nine.

The Valley of Fear is the last Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in book form in 1915.

The social philosopher Richard B. Gregg is credited with coining the term voluntary simplicity.

The Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and first published in 1819.

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience.

The Vibrant Life is a manual of practical meditations that help you address the issues of modern life.

The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later is the final book in Dumas' d'Artagnon Romances trilogy.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle.

Doctor Dolittle takes on an apprentice, Tommy Stubbins, as they set out to find Long Arrow, the world's greatest naturalist.

Using colonial tax and census records, scholars think the indigenous population dropped at least 90%.

H. G. Wells' prophetic The War in the Air foretold the use of airplanes in warfare and the coming of World War I.

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.

The Way IT Is is a very playful inquiry into the fundamental nature of reality.

Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh follows four generations of the Pontifex family.

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

The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope.

The comical Wheels of Chance was written in 1896 at the height of the golden age of the bicycle.

The collaborative efforts of twelve different authors writing a chapter each.

The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton.