The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this book.

Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917.

Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion.

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

The book called 'The Consolation of Philosophy' was throughout the Middle Ages, and down to the beginnings of the modern epoch in the sixteenth century, the scholar's familiar companion.

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.

The star of these stories is Father Brown, a character created by writer G. K. Chesterton.

This little book contains three plain sermons which were preached in New York in the Easter season of 1919, in the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which my son is minister.

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

Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott.

The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams.

Scottish writer Andrew Lang is best remember for his prolific collections of folk and fairy tales, but he was also an accomplished poet, literary critic, novelist and contributor in the field of anthropology.

Arnold Bennett's The Grand Babylon Hotel, from 1902, tells the story of a German prince mysteriously disappearing.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

It was in the year 1869 that impressed with the degree in which, even during the last twenty years, when the world seemed wholly occupied with other matters.

First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.

The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson.

Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of the life of a young American man in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The Sheik is a book by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century.