Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse.

We do not pretend that a man will be metamorphosed into a gentleman by reading this book.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a harrowing critique of social class and the powerlessness of women.

The Princess and the Goblin is an enduring children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald.

Sacred Books of the East includes selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta.

Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.

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

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

Richard Marsh's best-selling supernatural thriller The Beetle.

English author and literary critic D. H. Lawrence writes in Fantasia of the Unconscious.

As alarm grows about the possible early extinction of human life.

These are the passionate and poignant letters from General George E. Pickett, C.S.A.

Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in two parts, each resoundingly popular and receiving critical acclaim.

Into the Light: The Photo League Years is a collection of black-and-white photographs by Sonia Handelman Meyer.

One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond.

The chief glory of America is, that it is the country in which genius and industry find their speediest and surest reward.

It is a truth that there is very often an extremely easy, simple and prosaic way to attain many an end, which has always been supposed to require stupendous efforts.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time.

Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense.

The Soul of Man under Socialism is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde.