The teacher of religion needs to be very sure of himself at one point.

In How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, iconic American author Mark Twain discusses his own experience as a writer and his personal style.

Howards End is a masterful discussion of changing social class-consciousness.

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

American novelist and designer Edith Wharton traveled to Morocco after the end of World War I.

Charles Eastman, whose Sioux name was Ohiyesa (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh).

Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of the Victorian era.

The essential improvements that Scottish inventor James Watt (1736 - 1819) made to the steam engine.

Jane Eyre is raised in her aunt's house after the death of her parents.

John Stuart Mill: His Life and Works is a collection of twelve biographical.

Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.

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

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.

I could smell rotting fish, the stench of rum barrels and unwashed bodies.

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

What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable?

Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name.

Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by Walt Whitman originally published in 1855 at the poet's own expense.

Letters on England gathers together Voltaire's essays about his time in England between 1726 and 1728.

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