Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works.

Philosopher George Santayana published The Life of Reason in five volumes between 1905 and 1906.

Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.

Following the Equator is an account by Mark Twain of his travels through the British Empire in 1895.

Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a harrowing critique of social class and the powerlessness of women.

The Awakening (1899) appears in this collection of short stories.

The Worst Journey in the World is the autobiographical account of a disastrous Antarctic.

No Name is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.

When Sir Henry Ernest Shackleton was beaten to the South Pole in 1912.

The nonsensical poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) was written by Lewis Carroll.

The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel by Anthony Trollope.

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale is one of Stevenson's darker, more political novels.

The Politics of Aristotle is the second part of a treatise of which the Ethics is the first part.

The dictionaries define the word aura as: Any subtle, invisible emanation or exhalation.

Ragged Dick was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate.

We do not pretend that a man will be metamorphosed into a gentleman by reading this book.

The Swiss Family Robinson tells the story of a Swiss family who are shipwrecked in the East Indies.

Educational leaders are seeing with increasing clearness the necessity of teaching students.

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America is a classic text detailing the United States of the 1830s.