Richard Marsh's best-selling supernatural thriller The Beetle.

Zane Grey's best-known novel, Riders of the Purple Sage, was first published in 1912.

Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.

Isabella L. Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveler, writer.

Trips to the Moon collects together three works by the Assyrian master of rhetoric and satire.

H. P. Blavatsky, or Madame Blavatsky, was a founder of Theosophy.

In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.

At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account.

The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.