A GREAT BOOK is a living organism. Months, years, or centuries may go into its gestation.

Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books.

Sonnets from the Portuguese is the collection of love poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Browning's dramatic poem The Ring and the Book narrates the trial of a Roman for the death.

In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women.

Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name.

Bel Ami was the second published novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant.

A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet, known for.

At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account.

Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

The Bible is one of the two or three oldest books in the world, but unlike most of the ancient books.

How are we to live the larger life? Partly through uninspired struggle.

It is the natural right of every human being to be happy - to escape all the miseries of life.

This book is an attempt to put into definite form the principles observed by the masters.

The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from the rush of life.

John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga collects together three novels and two interludes.

Southern Exposure is a fiction collection that throws lights and shadows on Canadians.