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

'Discourses on Livy', which was first published posthumously in 1531, is Niccolo Machiavelli’s an...

An elegant and intellectual work, 'The Book of Tea' was written in 1906 by Okakura Kakuzo, a bril...

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

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

Published in 1913, Edith Wharton's 'The Custom of the Country' tells the story of Undine Spragg, ...

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

In a story that eerily predicts and parallels the disaster of the 'Titanic', 'The Wreck of the Ti...

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

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

Thomas Hardy's 'The Woodlanders' was first published serially in 1887. The tale takes place in th...

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

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,...

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

First published in 1914, Daniel Carter Beard’s 'Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties' is the definitive...

First published in 1922, 'Jacob's Room' is Virginia Woolf's third novel and a surprising and inno...

'At the Back of the North Wind' is a classic children's story first serialized in England in 1868...

First published in four volumes in 1794, Ann Radcliffe's 'The Mysteries of Udolpho' is an unparal...

Scotsman and poet Robert Burns was born in 1796. His family didn't have much in terms of money, b...

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

First published in 1841, this history chronicles the popular delusions throughout world history. ...

'Absolute Surrender and Other Addresses' is a compilation of sermons and essays written by the fa...

Despite a declining popularity throughout his career, Anthony Trollope has become one of the most...

Farid ud-Din Attar was a Persian poet, druggist, and social theorist of Sufism, who wrote much of...

First performed in 1773, 'She Stoops to Conquer' is the timeless comedic drama by Anglo-Irish aut...

'Carmilla' is the 1872 Gothic vampire novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, a leading ...

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

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, who...

First published in 1843, 'A Christmas Carol' is arguably Dickens's most popular and accessible wo...

This comprehensive collection of Twain's short stories showcases his immense talent, humor, and w...

Published in 1875 after appearing in serial form, 'The Way We Live Now' is widely acknowledged to...

Regarded as one of the greatest Presidents of The United States, Theodore Roosevelt led a full an...

'Mary Chestnut’s Diary' is a vivid first hand narrative of the Civil War. Mary Boykin Chestnut wa...

Set near the Limberlost Swamp in Indiana at the beginning of the 20th century, 'A Girl of the Lim...

Alfred Marshall (1842-1924) was one of the most influential English economists of his time. Known...

'The Sign of the Four' is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's follow-up novel to his immensely successful 'A...

John Webster's 'The Duchess of Malfi' is a macabre and tragic play written between 1612 and 1613....

First published in 1860, 'Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom', by William and Ellen Craft, is t...

In one of his first books, 'The Mountains of California', John Muir, famed naturalist, environmen...

Kate Douglas Wiggin was an important reformer of children's education at the turn of the century....

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest George Herbert is one the most famous and pop...

John Locke's 'Two Treatises of Government' are considered to be some of the most important works ...

This volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan P...