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.

Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion.

Ten Days that Shook the World is a first-hand account of Russia's October Revolution of 1917.

The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this book.

A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.

IT may possibly be thought, that there is no great need of going about to define or describe the Will.

The novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe, focuses on a slave named Uncle Tom to weave a portrayal of the cruelty of slavery, finding redemption in the idea that Christian love can conquer something so destructive.

One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production.

G.K. Chesterton lends his witty, astute and sardonic prose to the much loved figure of Saint Francis of Assis.

The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier.

Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123).

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.

The demand for this book has come from the students in the class room who have listened to these lectures on the Great Doctrines of the Bible.

Bob Brown, after living thirty years in as many foreign lands and enjoying countless national cheeses at the source, returned to New York and summed them all up in this book.

Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life places before the reader in a handy form an account of the principal ideas and beliefs held by the ancient Egyptians concerning the resurrection and the future life, which is derived wholly from native religious works.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story.

The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular book and is considered by many to be his best.

Jack London's White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog's journey from wildness into becoming civilized by humanity.

Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.