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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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