Lord George Gordon Byron was the flamboyant aristocratic poet who is as renowned for his personal...

First published in 1869, 'An Old-Fashioned Girl' is the charming novel of a young country girl le...

Generally considered as one of Shakespeare's best comedies, 'Much Ado About Nothing' is believed ...

First published in 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery's 'Rainbow Valley' is the seventh novel chronologic...

Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Lan...

'The Case of Wagner' is a critique of German composer Richard Wagner in which Friedrich Nietzsche...

Born into poverty in San Francisco in 1876, Jack London is one of the most well-known and beloved...

The cycle of 55 sonnets that comprise Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Sonnets to Orpheus' were written in a...

Florence Scovel Shinn was an American artist and book illustrator by trade but she is probably be...

Plato's most famous work and one of the most important books ever written on the subject of philo...

'Billy Budd' is the final work of American author Herman Melville which was discovered amongst hi...

Mark Twain's semi-autobiographical travel memoir, 'Roughing It' was written between 1870-1871 and...

'Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life' was Herman Melville's first novel and the work he was best kno...

First published in 1916, 'From the Deep Woods to Civilization' is the fascinating life account by...

'The Hound of Heaven and Other Poems' is a collection of poems by famed English poet Francis Thom...

Considered by many as Johann Goethe's magnum opus, 'Faust' has a peculiar history of composition ...

First published in 1905, 'A Little Princess' is one of Frances Hodgson Burnett's most beloved sto...

Theron Q. Dumont was one of the many pseudonyms of American occultist, author, and pioneer of the...

Charles A. Eastman, of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American heritage, was a passionate advocate for th...

Brother of novelist Henry James and godson of eminent philosopher, essayist and poet Ralph Waldo ...

George E. Moore (1873-1958) was a hugely influential philosopher of the 20th century. Moore spent...

'The Codes of Hammurabi and Moses' is a historical examination of the importance of these two anc...

Collected together in this collection are the most famous of all the poems written by Samuel Tayl...

Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) was a renowned Anglo-Catholic poet and novelist whose works on mysti...

First published in 1920, 'The Story of Doctor Dolittle', or 'Being the History of His Peculiar Li...

First published in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 'A Study in Scarlet' marks the first appearance...

Dictated to her friend Olive Gilbert and first published privately in 1850, 'The Narrative of Soj...

First published in 1609, 'The Sonnets' of William Shakespeare are a collection of 154 loosely con...

Performed for the first time in 1891, 'Hedda Gabler' is one of Henrik Ibsen’s greatest dramas. It...

Charles Brockden Brown was an American novelist, historian, and editor, who has been recognized a...

Often referred to as a 'father of science fiction', H. G. Wells was one of the first authors to w...

First published in English in 1912, 'Gitanjali', or 'Song Offerings', is a collection of poems tr...

First published in 1907, 'Lord of the World' is the dystopian work of science fiction by Monsigno...

First published in 1751, 'An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals' by David Hume, the Scot...

Written in 350 BC, Aristotle’s 'De Anima' or 'On the Soul' is not a work on spirituality, as the ...

First published in England in 1791 and the United States in 1794, Susanna Rowson’s 'Charlotte Tem...

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats discovered early in his literary caree...

William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night,' is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device emplo...

Originally published in the First Folio of 1623, 'Measure for Measure' is William Shakespeare’s p...

First published in 1911, 'The Principles of Scientific Management' by the American mechanical eng...

The 'Divine Comedy' was entitled by Dante himself merely 'Commedia,' meaning a poetic composition...

'The Knights of Columbus' is Thomas C. Knight's complete ritual and history of the first three de...

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman c...

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) was a master of the short story. The son of a former serf in southern R...

15th-century Dutch priest Thomas a Kempis is best known for his famous Christian devotional book,...

Often referred to as a 'father of science fiction', H. G. Wells was one of the first authors to w...

First published in 1902, 'Just So Stories' is Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of animal fabl...

In this collection readers will find two of Herman Melville’s most renowned shorter works, 'Bartl...