Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience.

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.

The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.

Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, from 1871, is a children's novel that is often put in the genre literary nonsense.

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.

The industrialist, businessman, and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919) established a gospel of wealth that can be neither ignored nor forgotten, and set a pace in distribution that succeeding millionaires have followed as a precedent.

Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.

Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York and summed them all up in this book.

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.

Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917.

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 experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902.

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion.