G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.

British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

G.K. Chesterton lends his witty, astute and sardonic prose to the much loved figure of Saint Francis of Assis.

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

A Russian prince returns to Saint Petersburg after a long absence in Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment for epilepsy.

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

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

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

The Soul of Man under Socialism is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde.

The Return of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' third novel in the series starring the man raised by apes. First serialized in 1914 in All-Story Cavalier magazine, it was published as a novel in 1916.

The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.

A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton.

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art.

Sir Joshua Reynolds laid down principles of art from the point of view of a man of genius who had made his power felt, and with the clear good sense which is the foundation of all work that looks upward and may hope to live.

The Return of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' second novel in the series starring the man raised by apes, and the story picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off.

Tarzan of the Apes is Edgar Rice Burroughs' first novel in the series starring the man raised by apes.

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

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.