The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story.

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life places before the reader in a handy form an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works.

Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York and summed them all up in this book.

The demand for this book has come from the students in the class room who have listened to these lectures on the Great Doctrines of the Bible.

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.

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

Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123).

The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier.

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

One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production.

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive.

IT may possibly be thought, that there is no great need of going about to define or describe the Will.

A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.

The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this book.

Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917.

Nothing comes amiss in the great business of preparation, if it has been thoroughly well learned.

Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.

To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand.

The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines.

The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902.