Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's Soho where he lives with his wife Winnie, her infirm mother, and her idiot brother, Stevie. When Verloc is reluctantly...

Johann Sebastian Bach Frederic Chopin Richard Strauss And The Art Of SoundPREFACEBearing in mind Emerson's saying that every action admits of being outdone, and around every...

Anne's House of Dreams is a novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. It was first published in 1917 by McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart.The novel is from a series of books...

The Enchanted Island of Yew: Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum,...

A Selection from the Work of Contemporaneous American PoetsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...

The book was written more than 160 years ago. Before getting down to the appalling story of the Conquest, it paints a vivid picture of the way Inca society, culture and command...

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her paternal...

The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts (1920), written and illustrated by the British author Hugh...

The deuterocanonical books (from the Greek meaning "belonging to the second canon") are books and passages considered by the Catholic...

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato's...