Napoleon's turbulent history with Russia including his doomed 1812 invasion provides the setting.

Are you an unusually persevering and persistent person? Or, like most of us, do you sometimes find it difficult to stick to the job until it is done?

It is a truth that there is very often an extremely easy, simple and prosaic way to attain many an end, which has always been supposed to require stupendous efforts.

The sages of the centuries, each one tincturing their thought with their own soul essence, have united in telling us that, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

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

When man can see through and understand what exists beneath the surface of his life, the expression of his deeper life will begin.

THERE is a power lying hidden in man, by the use of which he can rise to higher and better things.

AS a man chooses his coat for its wearing qualities or for the moment's passing whim, so does he choose his destiny.

Dark gray clouds had swallowed the rising sun, dawn outlining their ominous shapes in gold.

The unusual thing about the collection Quite Contrary is the range of subgenre.

Ewan Chisholm, despised drunk albeit gifted Egyptologist, is ordered by his curator.

Lost, the Golden Globe and Emmy Awardwinning hit television show, has become renowned.

Save the Cheerleader, Save the World.rdquo; With that immediately memorable mantra.

At the height of the Cold War a Russian girl plots to steal the mummified body of Lenin.

Over the past decade, the magic of J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series has spread across the globe.

To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand.

Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry.

The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams.

It goes without saying that this book is to be enjoyed with a dram or two of your favorite single malt. Don't have one? Don't worry, you will.

Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection.