The Merchant of Venice is classed as one of Shakespeare's comedies, but is more often remembered for its dramatic characters and situations.

King Lear is considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. King Lear decides to step down and divide his kingdom between his three daughters.

The Taming of the Shrew is perhaps one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays by modern standards.

Although originally classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, All's Well That Ends Well is now more commonly classified as one of his ambiguous problem plays, so called because they defy neat classification as either comedy or tragedy.

As You Like It is truly one of Shakespeare's greatest romantic comedies.

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories.

One of H. G. Wells' first ventures outside of the science fiction realm, the novel Love and Mr. Lewisham was published in the year 1900.

Catherine, a seventeen year old girl, travels with her family to Bath and makes many new acquaintance, including two young men who pursue her.

In Jack London's 1910 story Before Adam a young boy dreams that he is living the life of an early hominid, giving human evolution an early and entertaining portrayal.

Lady Audley's Secret was one of the first and most successful sensation novels of the late 19th century. A young gentleman of leisure, Robert Audley, is spurred into action when his friend Geroge Talboys goes missing from Audley Court.

Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin.

My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works.

The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.

Dave Saren has a past riddled with drugs and booze, one he’s trying hard to overcome.

His mother calls him from daydreams to go to school.

Long ago the last scientists of Atlantis engineered and programmed a dozen fish-like "babies".

Liza Casey called in to report a double homicide today.