The Story of My Heart is an inspiring and personal account of a soul's awakening.
Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion.
John Stuart Mill's 1869 essay The Subjection of Women argues for equality between the sexes.
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.
Considered the first in-depth critique of consumerism, economist Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book.
British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.
H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term time machine.
Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money; his career is in ruins and he wants to marry his beautiful fiancee.
The power of eloquence to move and persuade men is universally recognized.
De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies.
Mariano Azuela, the first of the novelists of the Revolution, was born in Lagos de Moreno.
How are we to live the larger life? Partly through uninspired struggle.
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 Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and first published in 1819.
Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle.
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.
Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh follows four generations of the Pontifex family.
The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope.
The collaborative efforts of twelve different authors writing a chapter each.