Black Beauty (1877) is the classic children's book by English author Anna Sewell.

First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate.

William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel.

The Ancient Greek Euripides wrote the play Hippolytus, a tragedy based on the myth.

A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding.

A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father.

First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories.

First published in 1905, A Thief in the Night is the third collection of stories.

Shirley was the second published novel by Charlotte Bronte, after Jane Eyre.

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile.

Robert Louis Stevenson's 1878 travelogue, An Inland Voyage, details his canoeing trip.

The spirit of simplicity is a great magician.

Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments.

The horror novel The Lair of the White Worm, also titled The Garden of Evil.

This book is written with the object of laying before the public a cookery book.

The Second Deluge is a science fiction novel by Garrett P. Serviss.

From the text: This Simple Sabotage Field Manual Strategic Services (Provisional) is published.

We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case.

A GREAT BOOK is a living organism. Months, years, or centuries may go into its gestation.

Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu.