Never without grief and pain could I remember the fate of Prince Zaleski -- victim of a too importunate, too unfortunate Love, which the fulgor of the ...

Leo Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy 1828-1910, based his last major novel, RESURRECTION upon a real incident. It is the story of the prostitute Ekaterina ...

Here he stood before the Emperor! Full of big plans for all the peas he would harvest (if he got around to planting the three little peas he had found) ...

The Door in the Wall: There was something in the very air of it that exhilarated, that gave one a sense of lightness and good happening and well being; ...

When Abner Perry invents a vehicle that essentially drills through the earth, he takes it to his good friend (and independently wealthy man about town) ...

Every reader of this refreshing book will go with Sinclair "romping down the vista of the ages, swatting every venerable head that shows itself -- beating ...

Pemberton is a penniless Oxford graduate who takes on a job tutoring Morgan Moreen. As he spends more time with the brilliant eleven-year-old, he becomes ...

Dorian Gray doesn't look a day over twenty-two. Once upon a time, Dorian really was young, handsome, and charming. To preserve Dorian's charm, his friend ...

These were the questions young Henry asked himself, having exhausted all the libraries and bookstores in his search for evermore fairy tales to read ...

The prologues to both parts, 'The Moon Maid' and 'The Moon Men'(part 3 of the series) constitute a future history, effectively Burroughs' vision of ...