Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.

The Tempest is thought by many to be Shakespeare's greatest and most perfect play.

The Taming of the Shrew is perhaps one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays by modern standards.

The Swiss Family Robinson tells the story of a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies.

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.

John Stuart Mill's 1869 essay The Subjection of Women argues for equality between the sexes.

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.

The Story of My Heart is an inspiring and personal account of a soul's awakening.

This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of Stone, who lived so long ago.

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents was H. G. Wells' first collection of short stories.

With this novel, the author of Inquest and Executive Action has managed fiction-created-from-fact.

It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons.

Annie tells her friends to "come as you are" -and they do!

We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers.

The Soul of Man under Socialism is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde.

Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855.

The Son of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' fourth novel in the Tarzan series.

Filipino national hero Jose Rizal wrote The Social Cancer in Berlin in 1887.

In the dystopian vision of H. G. Wells' novel The Sleeper Awakes (1910), a man awakes to a London where all he knew has radically changed after his sleep of two hundred and three years.

Five years ago, Sam O'Connor's sister Chloe died in New York - just another accidental overdose.