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.

Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism have been major influences on Chinese folklore tales.

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.

The whole evolution is one in its essence. The succession is the same, the sequences identical.

Never was there such great need for a mighty, Pentecostal revival in all our Churches; and the key to such a revival is earnest personal work.

G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.

The Duchess of Malfi was published in 1623, but the date of writing may have been as early as 1611.

Sylvie and Bruno is set in Victorian England and in Fairyland, each setting with their own narrative.

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

The Longest Journey (1907) follows the young Rickie Elliot's journey to maturity.

The Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant's three Critiques, following Critique of Pure Reason.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is the compilation of 34 short stories and essays by Washington Irving.

The Haunted Bookshop speaks of the ghosts that inhabit all places of books - the ghosts of all great literature.

Beyond Lies the Wub was the first story ever published by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick.

This Side of Paradise is a novel about post-World War I youth and their morality.

The Romany Rye is a fictional, yet highly autobiographical novel by George Borrow, which follows his novel Lavengro.

Parnassus on Wheels is a novel by Christopher Morley, published in 1917.

Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh follows four generations of the Pontifex family.

If only things had been different,Diane Tanner thought before discovering her alternate reality.

Corri Dunn’s mission to distant Adhara VII begins on a downhill slide.