The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777.
The Seagull is the first of Anton Checkov's four full-length plays.
The Second Deluge is a science fiction novel by Garrett P. Serviss.
British writer Edith Maude Hull was best known for her classic romantic novel.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second novel starring the great detective Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four weaves together a complex plot involving stolen treasure, a secret pact between guards and prisoners, and the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
The spirit of simplicity is a great magician.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving.
Filipino national hero Jose Rizal wrote The Social Cancer in Berlin in 1887.
We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers.
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.