Beyond Lies the Wub was the first story ever published by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - the ghosts of all great literature.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving.

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, following Critique of Pure Reason.

Scottish writer Andrew Lang is best remember for his prolific collections of folk and fairy tales, but he was also an accomplished poet, literary critic, novelist and contributor in the field of anthropology.

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott.

The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity.

Howards End is a masterful discussion of changing social class-consciousness.

A Room with a View is a romance and a social critique of Edwardian society.

Sylvie and Bruno is set in Victorian England and in Fairyland, each setting with their own narrative.

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century.

The Duchess of Malfi was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611.

G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.

Never was there such great need for a mighty, Pentecostal revival in all our Churches; and the key to such a revival is earnest personal work.

This little book contains three plain sermons which were preached in New York in the Easter season of 1919, in the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which my son is minister.

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

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.

Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.

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.

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.