H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines tells of a group of adventurers journeying into unexplored Africa in order to find the missing brother of one of the party.

The whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity.

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

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.

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, following Critique of Pure Reason.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving.

The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - the ghosts of all great literature.

Beyond Lies the Wub was the first story ever published by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money; his career is in ruins and he wants to marry his beautiful fiancee.

This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality.

Life at Pontesordo was in truth not very pleasant for an ardent and sensitive little boy of nine.