Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.

The Trojan Women follows the women of Troy after the famous war which devastated their city.

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

In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.

Trips to the Moon collects together three works by the Assyrian master of rhetoric and satire.

Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.

Zane Grey's best-known novel, Riders of the Purple Sage, was first published in 1912.

This book takes Beauty as already existing and enjoyed, and seeks to analyze and account.

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

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789.

Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.

Anticipations: Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought.

First published in 1920, The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants.

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.

THE human being who thrills to the experience of beauty in nature and in art does not forever rest.

Compliance with, and deference to, the wishes of others is the finest breeding.

Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, more commonly known as Francois.

No matter what our work in life, whether scientific, artistic, or domestic.

The essential improvements that Scottish inventor James Watt (1736 - 1819) made to the steam engine.