Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America is a classic text detailing the United States of the 1830s.

Educational leaders are seeing with increasing clearness the necessity of teaching students.

The nonsensical poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) was written by Lewis Carroll.

When Sir Henry Ernest Shackleton was beaten to the South Pole in 1912.

The Worst Journey in the World is the autobiographical account of a disastrous Antarctic.

The Awakening (1899) appears in this collection of short stories.

Nostromo is a classic anti-hero, who lives in a fictitious mining village on the coast.

Areopagitica: A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.

Regarded as one of Arnold Bennett's finest works, The Old Wives' Tale was first published in 1908.

Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer.

There are moments in the lives of all of us when we catch glimpses of a life - our life.

The aim of literary study is not to amuse the hours of leisure.

The mind can only be conquered by regular meditation, by deciding beforehand.

I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater, and have suffered.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, also known as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher.

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of the Victorian era.

The foundation of all true knowledge of God must be a clear mental apprehension.

Wrong thinking produces inharmony in our body, which in turn produces sickness.