A GREAT BOOK is a living organism. Months, years, or centuries may go into its gestation.
Born in Exile is an 1892 novel by George Robert Gissing, a prominent realist author of late-Victorian England who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903.
Four lively youngsters enjoy activities on a typical day at school.
It was in the year 1869 that impressed with the degree in which, even during the last twenty years, when the world seemed wholly occupied with other matters.
UNCONSCIOUSLY we are forming habits every moment of our lives. Some are habits of a desirable nature; some are those of a most undesirable nature.
Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple became a huge seller in America from its first publication there in 1794, subsequently going through over two hundred editions.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition.
Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.
William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel.
When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense.
I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater, and have suffered.
John Stuart Mill used Considerations on Representative Government to call for reforms to Parliament and voting,
The aim and design of conversation is, therefore, pleasure.
French philosopher Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution was published in 1907.
Creative Unity is a collection of essays from Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, who in 1913 became Asia's first recipient of the Nobel Prize.
FIRST off, let me state the object of the meeting: This is to be a record.
Darkness and Dawn is a science fiction trilogy by George Allan England.
Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.
Death consists in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing.
Doctor Pascal concludes Zola's epic Rougon-Macquart series.