American essayist, philosopher and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882) lead Transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century and greatly influenced the later New Thought movement.

British writer John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps is the first of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.

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.

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.

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

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.

Parnassus on Wheels is a novel by Christopher Morley, published in 1917.

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.

Student! Your life is your own. You have only yourself to thank for what you are, have been and will be.

Creative Unity is a collection of essays from Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, who in 1913 became Asia's first recipient of the Nobel Prize.

Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.

Miles Franklin wrote My Brilliant Career as a romance to entertain her friends.

In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu.

Four lively youngsters enjoy activities on a typical day at school.

Cook has baked Mrs Harris a cake and would like King Rollo to deliver it to her.