What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable?

A Russian prince returns to Saint Petersburg after a long absence in Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment for epilepsy.

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money; his career is in ruins and he wants to marry his beautiful fiancee.

We do not pretend that a man will be metamorphosed into a gentleman by reading this book.

Sacred Books of the East includes selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta.

Zane Grey's best-known novel, Riders of the Purple Sage, was first published in 1912.

Richard Marsh's best-selling supernatural thriller The Beetle.

English author and literary critic D. H. Lawrence writes in Fantasia of the Unconscious.

The Lectures embraced in this volume, were written for the pulpit, in the usual manner of preparation for such labor, without any expectation of their appearing in print.

It is a good thing for all Americans, and it is an especially good thing for young Americans, to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen.

Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle.

Some years ago this book was born into thought by the perception of its fundamental principle, and it has been growing ever since.

H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this.

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.

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.