"The Three Musketeers" is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas.Set in 1625-8, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (based on Charles de...

Numerous books have been written on the subject treated herein, but no one gives sufficient practical knowledge to enable the average reader to apply the necessary treatment...

"Modern India" was written in 1903-04 by William Eleroy CurtisWilliam Eleroy Curtis (1850 - 1911) was traveling correspondent for two Chicago newspapers, the...

"The Prince" is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Although it is relatively short, the...

"Snobs are to be studied like other objects of Natural Science, and are a part of the Beautiful (with a large B). They pervade all classes".William Makepeace...

"Sonnets" is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets accredited to William Shakespeare which cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. It...

PREFACEThe eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a...

Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, meets a mysterious and distressed woman dressed in white. He helps her on her way, but later learns that she has escaped from an asylum....

Many years after Halifax, West Yorkshire, where Edward Christopher Sheeran was born in 17 February 1991, he is now a well know English singer, songwriter, guitarist, record...

Set in Joyce's native Ireland, the story follows life of a young man Stephen and his transformation from child to artist. In five chapters, we are taken through Stephen's early...