Heidi is a novel for children written in 1880 which remains one of the most well-known pieces of Swiss literature.

There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art.

In America, in 1770, a well-defined aristocracy held control.

Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance.

A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton.

The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience.

Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption.

The following book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven, each followed by sections of quotations attributed to the muse.

The Land That Time Forgot is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel that starts out as a nerve-wracking wartime naval adventure but develops into the story of a unique and mysterious prehistoric lost world.

Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1864 masterpiece following the ranting, slightly unhinged memoir of an isolated, anonymous civil servant.

There never was anybody, wrote the Spectator, who had adventures as well as Miss Bird.

William Morris was an English writer, architect, and artist and was integral to the birth of socialism in Great Britain.

Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw.

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes collects together eleven stories detailing the famous exploits and adventures of Baker Street's greatest detective.

A Study in Scarlet is the first of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

The Valley of Fear is the last Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in book form in 1915.

An Unsocial Socialist begins in an unruly girl's school, comically portraying their tricks and pranks.

THERE is a power lying hidden in man, by the use of which he can rise to higher and better things.