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.

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

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

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

Regarded as one of Arnold Bennett's finest works, The Old Wives' Tale was first published in 1908.

Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer.

The author of The Grand Babylon Hotel, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day.

There is a golden thread that runs through every religion in the world.