The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19.

The Bhagavad Gita, one of the most sacred and venerated Hindu texts, is a series of conversations.

Our Mutual Friend was Charles Dickens' last completed novel.

Little Men is the sequel to Louisa May Alcott's classic, Little Women.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, which Franklin himself called his Memoirs.

The theory of taking off fat is the simplest theory in the world.

The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius is the only complete Latin novel to have survived to this day.

The pleasure which all derive from the expositions of Faraday.

John Dewey's Democracy and Education.

FIRST off, let me state the object of the meeting: This is to be a record.

De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies.

The historical importance of Zen can hardly be exaggerated.

Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote Candide in ridicule of the notion.

Originally this was published by the author (1784-1849), a former governor of South Carolina.

The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person.

From the text: I have now been in India for over two years and a half after my return.

Written by Benjamin Franklin in 1758, The Way to Wealth collects together Franklin's adages.

Baroness Orczy's classic adventure novel El Dorado is the sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

The Lady and the Pirate is a romance adventure novel from the well-known American author.