To the student of the origins of Christianity there is naturally no period in Western history of greater interest and importance than the first century of our era; and yet how...

A love story? Something like this and much more. The tale of a friendship between a man and childhood. J.M.Barrie, the author, takes us in paths of dream and helps us to find out...

A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa is an 1892 historical non-fiction work by Robert Louis Stevensondescribing the contemporary Samoan Civil War.Robert Louis...

Robinsons are weathering a great storm in the sailing ship. The ship runs aground on a reef, and the family learns the ship's crew has taken to a lifeboat and abandoned them....

The pretty little town of Golden Friars—standing by the margin of the lake, hemmed round by an amphitheatre of purple mountain, rich in tint and furrowed by ravines, high in...

An international auction is organized to define the sovereign rights to the part of the Arctic extending from the 84th parallel, the highest yet reached by man, to the North Pole....

Set in upstate New York, the story follows Samuel Prescott's eventful life. A robbery leaves Samuel penniless and forces him to encounter many bigger than life characters from...

In 1859 Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean on the mission to...

The Wizard of Oz is the first fantasy written by an American. Its evocative use of the forces of nature in its plots and produced powerful effect on the American imagination. The...

A panoramic novel of eighteenth-century London, Cecilia, subtitled Memoirs of an Heiress, is a novel, about the trials and tribulations of a young upper class woman who must...