What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable?

Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense.

H. G. Wells' 1901 science fiction novel The First Men in the Moon tells the story of a voyage to the moon by Mr. Bedford, a businessman plagued by financial problems, and Dr. Cavor, a brilliant and somewhat eccentric scientist.

Another visionary novel from the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau tackles the thorny issues thrown up when humankind plays God and explores notions of society and identity, bringing the mythical chimera.

H.G. Wells' 1897 science fiction novella The Invisible Man tells the story of a scientist named Griffin who theory is this.

H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term time machine.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time.

We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies (For some recent views on fairies and tales about fairies, see Notes.)

The success of a fairy book, I am convinced, depends on the due admixture of the comic and the romantic: Grimm and Asbjörnsen knew this secret, and they alone.

In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.

Henry Thomas Hamblin was one of the founding fathers of the New Thought Movement.

Horatio W. Dresser was one of the most prolific writers of the New Thought Movement.

The runaway bestseller The Magic Story was first published in 1900 in Success Magazine. It has been constantly in print ever since.

The Mastery of Destiny embodies New Thought writer James Allen's teachings that our thoughts can be used to increase our capabilities and to create our lives as we desire them to be.

The Ideal Made Real is written by the founding New Thought leader and teacher Christian D. Larson, who was a prolific author of metaphysical and self-help books.

Prentice Mulford helped to found the New Thought movement, his book Thoughts are Things becoming a guiding light to this new way of seeing the world.

A prophet has is about to board a ship home after 12 years in exile, when he is stopped by a group of people.

Some years ago this book was born into thought by the perception of its fundamental principle, and it has been growing ever since.

The time has come when advertising has in some hands reached the status of a science.

DO you desire above all things to live a serene, useful, successful life? Do you want to get out of the petty limitations of conventionality?