H. G. Wells' 1901 science fiction novel The First Men in the Moon tells the story of a voyage to the moon by Mr. Bedford, a businessman plagued by financial problems, and Dr. Cavor, a brilliant and somewhat eccentric scientist.
In Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core the narrator tells of his travels in the Sahara where he encounters David Innes, the pilot of an amazing vehicle and the owner of a remarkable story.
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.
The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.
Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.
Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw.
The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers.
When Robert Browning first met the ailing Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 it must have seemed to him like something from a gothic novel.
Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society.
The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.
The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier.
The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this book.
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.
This little book contains three plain sermons which were preached in New York in the Easter season of 1919, in the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which my son is minister.
A Room with a View is a romance and a social critique of Edwardian society.
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott.
Scottish writer Andrew Lang is best remember for his prolific collections of folk and fairy tales, but he was also an accomplished poet, literary critic, novelist and contributor in the field of anthropology.
Written in 1919, George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is equal parts tragedy and comedy.
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.