The Egyptian civilization, which flourished along the banks of the Nile for about 3000 years, was one of the most extraordinary and enduring of the ancient world. Even today,...

"The Captive" (Prisionnière) is the fifth part of "In search of lost time" by Marcel Proust and published posthumously in 1923. In this story the...

The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in Chapters is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1876. At the beginning of the book, we are told that Ethelberta was raised in humble...

The Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text.The Tao Te Ching is a fundamental text for both philosophical and religious Taoism.Lao-tuz was the founder of...

Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.Like Yonge's other works, this novel has an instructional purpose...

The Underground City, by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a...

Charlotte Mary Yonge (11 August 1823 – 24 May 1901) was an English novelist known for her huge output, now mostly out of print.

A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson.Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.

The old nurse’s story” (1906) is a short novel written by Elizabeth Gaskell , the Victorian writer.

Nicotine is undoubtedly the most universally used of all poisons. In the blistering heat of the tropics; in the biting cold of the arctic; on the broad highway of the tumbling...