Execute your resolutions immediately. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

Architects of Fate, or, Steps to Success and Power, by Orison Swett Marden, is a book.

Initially banned in his home country The Kingdom of God Is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's great non-fiction.

A recognized Latin American history masterpiece The History of the Conquest of Peru.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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