Western civilization began with the Greeks. From the highpoint of the 5th century BC.

An Unsocial Socialist begins in an unruly girl's school, comically portraying their tricks and pranks.

An Outcast of the Islands is Joseph Conrad's second novel, first published in 1896 and inspired by Conrad's time as mate of the steamer The Vigar.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge opens with the story's hero, Peyton Farquhar, hanging bound from a bridge, awaiting hanging.

The education of the will is the object of our existence, says Emerson.

The whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip.

Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.

In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that my life from this point onward has been so public.

An Actor's Business describes acting opportunities in 20 regions all over the United States.

A gay wedding gone bad. A missing groom. An unsullied reputation at risk. Enter Russell Quant.

There never was anybody, wrote the Spectator, who had adventures as well as Miss Bird.

Barack Obama, junior senator from Illinois, first captured Americas attention.

From the calm Pacific to the storm-tossed prairie, a teasing puzzle turns into a frightening game.

A young Dutch trader, Kaspar Almayer, marries Captain Lingard's adopted Malay daughter.

Although originally classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, All's Well That Ends Well is now more commonly classified as one of his ambiguous problem plays, so called because they defy neat classification as either comedy or tragedy.

The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines.

James Allen's All These Things Added was first published in 1903 and contains both Entering the Kingdom and The Heavenly Life, which were both later published as separate books.

"Alizay, pirate girl" is an artful blend of story, game and cartoon