Originally published in serial format in 'The Egoist' between 1914 and 1915, 'A Portrait of the A...

English poet John Milton's 17th century epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' is the work for which he is b...

Born and raised in a Longford, Ireland workhouse, Padraic Colum left home at seventeen to become ...

First published in 1913 by noted British painter Harold Speed, 'The Practice and Science of Drawi...

Karl Marx's second volume in his monumental criticism of capitalism was prepared by Friedrich Eng...

Li Po (701-762) rivals Du Fu for the title of China's greatest poet, and is considered to be the ...

First published in 1924, 'The Box-Car Children' is the beloved children's classic by American gra...

Originally published in 1908 by unnamed authors calling themselves the 'Three Initiates' and publ...

Considered to be one of the most important self-help books ever written, 'I Dare You!' was first ...

Loosely based on the Arthurian legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King, 'The Waste Land', wh...

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known popularly by his stage name Molière, is regarded as one of the mast...

First published in 1882 and revised in 1887, 'The Gay Science' was written at the peak of Nietzsc...

First published in 1959, 'The Measure of a Man' is a collection of two influential sermons given ...

This handbook for professional and amateur actors and directors provides simple and practical met...

'The landmark comic satire that asks, 'What would happen if all black people in America turned wh...

The 'Mahabharata' tells the narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the...

First published in 1923, 'New Hampshire' by famed American poet Robert Frost, is one of the most ...

First published in 1842, 'Dead Souls' is the story of Chichikov, a young middle-class gentleman w...

A pivotal work in the psychological theories of Sigmund Freud, 'Three Essays on the Theory of Sex...

First published in 1914, 'The Revolt of the Angels' is one of the final works by celebrated Frenc...

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was a French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, whose th...

First Published in 1924 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1925, Edna Ferber's 'So Big' is the fas...

First published serially in 1923, and later as a novel in 1924, 'Leave it to Psmith' is P. G. Wod...

Considered by many to be one of the greatest adventure novels of all time, 'The Thirty-Nine Steps...

First published in Swiss German in 1881, Johanna Spyri's 'Heidi' is the classic children's story ...

'Gardening Without Work' is the detailed and helpful guide by Ruth Stout, the American author fam...

Thornton W. Burgess was an important and influential American conservationist and a prolific auth...

First published in 1850, 'The Law' is the best known work of 19th century economist Frederic Bast...

Born Marie Françoise-Therese Martin, Saint Therese of Lisieux in her twenty-four short years, thr...

In Edgar Rice Burroughs' sequel to 'A Princess of Mars', we find John Carter returning to Mars af...

The title of this novel is a combination of two Sanskrit words, 'siddha,' which is defined as 'ac...

A parody of traveler's tales and a satire of human nature, 'Gulliver's Travels' is Jonathan Swift...

'Ecco Homo: How One Becomes What One Is' is an insightful reflection by Friedrich Nietzsche upon ...

First published serially in 'The Atlantic Monthly' between 1880 and 1881, Henry James' 'The Portr...

First published in 1924, 'Poirot Investigates' is a collection of several short stories by Agatha...

First published serially in 1894 and lengthened for the book publication in 1895, 'The Red Badge ...

Originally published in 1952, 'The Power of Awareness' is one of the most important and influenti...

In the classical tale 'The Satyricon', Petronius Arbiter makes a strong, yet humorous, statement ...

French philosopher Henri Bergson produced four major works in his lifetime, the second of which, ...

Composed of ten books and based upon Aristotle's own notes from his lectures at the Lyceum, 'Nico...

First published in 1947, Agnes Sanford's 'The Healing Light' is a classic of Christian literature...

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Raskolnikov is an impoverished former student living in Saint Petersburg, Russia who feels compel...

Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell was a notable 20th century British philosopher, mathematician, hi...

First published in 1923, 'The Lost Keys of Freemasonry' or 'The Legend of Hiram Abiff,' by Manly ...

First published in 1921, 'Robin Hood', by American author J. Walker McSpadden, is one of the most...

'The purpose of this field manual is to provide a standardized source document for Army-wide refe...

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