Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome.

The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy.

The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.

Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.

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

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production.

A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines tells of a group of adventurers journeying into unexplored Africa in order to find the missing brother of one of the party.

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

There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

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

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.

First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.

Death consists in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing.

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.