Bel Ami was the second published novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet, known for.
At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account.
The Bible is one of the two or three oldest books in the world, but unlike most of the ancient books.
How are we to live the larger life? Partly through uninspired struggle.
John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga collects together three novels and two interludes.
Written in 1919, George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is equal parts tragedy and comedy.
Miranda Blair, a writer about mysterious death cases, is investigating the death of a child.
Buddhism passed into Japan from China and Korea about 1320 years ago, in or about the year A.D. 552.
Selecting his cut and uncut jewels from very various Buddhistic sources, Mr. Bowden has here supplied those who buy and use the book with rubies and sapphires and emeralds of wisdom, compassion, and human brotherhood.
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.
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first published novel and the first ever publishing phenomenon with illegal copies, theatrical performances and merchandise.
The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century.
If the reading of this little book encourages any on their pilgrim way; if it arouses them to greater diligence.
A Princess of Mars is the first in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series. This science fiction planetary romance, packed full of dangerous feats and swordplay, is set on a dying Mars.
Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).
The Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and first published in 1819.
First published in 1920, The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants.
Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, more commonly known as Francois.