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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

It is 1750 and Daniel, the 10-year-old foundling living with Dick Bates is worried. Dick is the owner of the Peacock Alehouse in White Cross Street, Islington.

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19.

Our Mutual Friend was Charles Dickens' last completed novel.

Selling 20,000 copies in the first year after its publication in 1859.

Henry VIII was the infamous English king who abolished ties with the Catholic church.

FIRST off, let me state the object of the meeting: This is to be a record.

De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies.

Ethics is a philosophical book written by Benedictus de Spinoza.

The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person.

The Enchiridion, or Handbook was written by a student of Epictetus in the 2nd century.

Initially banned in his home country The Kingdom of God Is Within You is Leo Tolstoy's great non-fiction.

《中文天天读》
是专为汉语学习者编写的一套有声分级读物。既可作为课外读物，也可作为阅读教材。

《中文天天读》
是专为汉语学习者编写的一套有声分级读物。既可作为课外读物，也可作为阅读教材。