The House of the Dead portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp...

Herland is a utopian novel written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirely of Aryan women...

High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall; you will find this book although an exciting narrative has an...

This “cyclopedia” is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is more humorous than practical —...

The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at the...

Although the origin of this book is much debated it remains, perhaps, one of the earliest recorded histories of Britain. It was believed that...

The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere “rollicking...

The Home and the World is a 1916 novel, set in the estate of the rich Bengali noble Nikhil. He lives happily with his beautiful wife Bimala until...

How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, R. W....

They didn't have to worry about a thing for the rest of their natural lives.

Sara Teasdale was an American poet, originally from Missouri, later attaching herself more to New York. Helen of Troy was one of her first great...