The comical Wheels of Chance was written in 1896 at the height of the golden age of the bicycle.

The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a broad comparative study.

Dubbed The Wickedest Man In the World, Aleister Crowley is best known for his occult writings.

The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents was H. G. Wells' first collection of short stories.

The City of the Sun is an important early utopian work by Italian philosopher Tommaso Campanella.

The New Atlantis is Sir Francis Bacon's creation of an ideal land.

Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop.

Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire's novel Zadig, or The Book of Fate skillfully weaves the story.

For those who would aspire to the gift of pure vision, and in whom the faculty is striving.

This author-physician's cure for nerves vividly recalls the simplicity of method.

Expression is one of the necessary elements of human development.

The aim and design of conversation is, therefore, pleasure.

It has been said that Nothing Succeeds Like Success. What is Success?

The great difference between telling and reading is that the teller is free; the reader is bound.

After having stammered for twenty years you have pretty well run the whole gamut of mockery.

The teacher of religion needs to be very sure of himself at one point.

A musical genius came to the Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls, and asked permission to cross.

An education is likely to take the dramatist a great deal of time.

H. G. Wells' Ann Veronica, first published in 1909, looks at political and feminist issues.