The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.

The whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.

Never was there such great need for a mighty, Pentecostal revival in all our Churches; and the key to such a revival is earnest personal work.

Although considered by many to be Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest work of literature, Weir of Hermiston was left unfinished by its author's untimely death in 1894.

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.

The Duchess of Malfi was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611.

Sylvie and Bruno is set in Victorian England and in Fairyland, each setting with their own narrative.

The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.

Howards End is a masterful discussion of changing social class-consciousness.

The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity.

The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands.

Chrétien de Troyes' Four Arthurian Romances continued and expanded on existing Arthurian legends, but began the Arthurian Romance genre, so popular in Medieval literature.

From the author: My aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with limitations of space.

In the South Seas is a collection of Robert Louis Stevenson's articles and essays on his travels in the Pacific.

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, following Critique of Pure Reason.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression.

The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - the ghosts of all great literature.