The Emerson System treats the voice as a natural reporter of the individual, constantly emphasizing the tendency of the voice to express appropriately any mental concept or state of feeling.

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.

Heidi is a novel for children written in 1880 which remains one of the most well-known pieces of Swiss literature.

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art.

The Country of the Blind and Other Stories brings together thirty-three of H. G. Wells' science fiction and fantasy short stories which were previously published separately in a variety of periodicals.

In America, in 1770, a well-defined aristocracy held control.

Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle starring the great detective of Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes. Wealthy landowner Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in the parkland surrounding his manor.

Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance.

A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton.

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

Jane Eyre is raised in her aunt's house after the death of her parents.

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

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

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

The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.

Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by Walt Whitman originally published in 1855 at the poet's own expense.

The Land That Time Forgot is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel that starts out as a nerve-wracking wartime naval adventure but develops into the story of a unique and mysterious prehistoric lost world.

Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 masterpiece following the ranting, slightly unhinged memoir of an isolated, anonymous civil servant.

There never was anybody, wrote the Spectator, who had adventures as well as Miss Bird.