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.

Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion.

British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

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.

An app to view the complete schedule of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. You can optionally filter the schedule on team(s), host(s), or venue(s). The app also allows you to view the group division of the teams, and the final 15-member squad for each of the 14 participating teams.

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

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines tells of a group of adventurers journeying into unexplored Africa in order to find the missing brother of one of the party.

In this autobiography, also titled The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Mohandas K. Gandhi recounts his life from childhood up until 1921, noting that my life from this point onward has been so public.

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion.

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry.

There is in every human being a sense which is not generally recognized as such, although nearly every person has had more or less experience regarding its workings.

The whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.

The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton.

The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton.