From the author: My aim, after summarizing the sociology of the Chinese as a prerequisite to the understanding of their ideas and sentiments, and dealing as fully as possible, consistently with limitations of space.

Chrétien de Troyes' Four Arthurian Romances continued and expanded on existing Arthurian legends, but began the Arthurian Romance genre, so popular in Medieval literature.

The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands.

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.

The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.

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.

Although considered by many to be Robert Louis Stevenson's greatest work of literature, Weir of Hermiston was left unfinished by its author's untimely death in 1894.

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 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.

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

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.

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.