Here is a selection of some of the best-known and best-loved tales of The Arabian Nights, including “Sinbad,” “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” “Aladdin,” “The Talking Bird,” and “The Fisherman and the Genie.”

This definitive biography reveals new details about one of the world’s most admired actresses and the star who defined an era.

Bette is Lisbeth Fischer, an excruciatingly cunning poor relation who both depends upon and nurses a terrible grudge against the family of her beautiful cousin, Adeline.

In this sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney’s arch- enemy travels to England in pursuit of the impudent enemy of the French Republic.

This book looks at the careers, the methods, and the minds of self-made billionaires.

It has been ten years since Juliette de Marny’s father asked her to swear revenge upon Déroulède for the death of her brother in a duel.

Largely autobiographical, La Vagabonde recalls Colette’s own years as a dance-hall performer in turn-of-the-century Paris, where she takes the listener backstage…

The charming story of a 7-year-old turn-of-the-century American boy who lived on the edge of poverty in New York City and who suddenly inherits an English castle.

The Lost Girl is perhaps D.H. Lawrence’s most beautiful, thoroughly contemporary love story.

Fanny Price is adopted into the family of her rich uncle, Thomas Bertram, and is condescendingly treated as a poor relation by Aunt Norris.

This brilliantly conceived and well- organized book is based on a lecture course given by Dr. Leonard Peikoff in 1976 entitled “The Philosophy of Objectivism.” The lectures were attended by Ayn Rand, who helped prepare them and who also joined Peikoff in answering questions.

Careless about dress and demeanor and other worldly fripperies, St. Thomas was a man who enjoyed...

Mary Pride, a guru of homeschooling, says schoolproofing means making sure your children get a great education…

On November 23, 1942, German U-Boats torpedoed the British ship Benlomond, and it sank in the Atlantic in two minutes....

Fleeing the Nazis, author Franz Werfel and his wife found refuge in the town of Lourdes, home of the famous shrine where the virtuous Bernadette received visions of the Virgin Mary and where millions came in faith to seek a miracle.

Shy people and introverts generally avoid actively propelling themselves into the public eye. They would rather work quietly behind the scenes.

If you're tired of holding your breath, waiting for exactly the right moment to arrive before you can start living the life you really want....

Witty, indulged, capricious, Zelda Sayre thoroughly enjoyed the life of a belle. When she married F. Scott Fitzgerald, their life was the extension of her Montgomery, Alabama, existence.