The great philosopher and teacher Plato is remembered today for his powerful writings.

In "The Holly Tree," the narrator is an old man who tells his Christmas story, which is that he came...

Hear some of the greatest essays ever written! This unabridged collection covers a multitude...

A man, condemned to 10 years of penal servitude for murdering his wife describes life in a Siberian...

The House of the Dead was written in 1861 just following Dostoevsky’s four-year prison internment, and there is no doubt that this splendid novel depicts much of what he saw and experienced during that time.

A comet speeds toward earth, a deadly, glowing orb that soon fills the sky and promises doom...

Kim, an orphaned Irish boy living among beggars and thieves in India’s bazaar, was born for adventure.

Marcus Aurelius was destined to be a leader. He was born into a good family, one related by blood...

Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome, wrote his famous Meditations during his grueling campaigns against the barbarians (a.d. 121-180).

Among the short stories included in this collection is “The Gloria Scott,” an account of Holmes’s very first case.

This mystery was Dickens’s last novel, left unfinished at his death in 1870. The setting: the cathedral city of Cloisterham.

This first of three autobiographies written by a man who was an escaped slave and internationally famous abolitionist covers the period from his life as a slave to his escape to the North at age twenty-one.

The Old Curiosity Shop is the only novel in which Dickens allowed emotion to run away with both writer and reader.

The melodramatic saga of the flight of Little Nell and her grandfather captured the public's attention....

One of the greatest of French novelists, Balzac, trained as a lawyer, was a great judge of human nature....

This final collection of Sherlock Holmes stories will have you leaving lights on and checking behind doors...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote of many dreadful murders, but the one which astonished and distressed readers the most was when the author, anxious to try something new, killed off Sherlock Holmes.

Sterne is one of the most original and unexpected of writers, and A Sentimental Journey differs from other travel books as greatly as Tristram Shandy differs from other novels....

Miss Mary Morstan has been mysteriously receiving pearls.

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” wrote W.E.B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk.

Du Bois explains the meaning of the emancipation, and its effect, and his views on the roles of the leaders of his race....

Enjoy stories of the past and the future by the author of The Time Machine...

If you have an appetite for the occult, consider this a feast. All of the authors in this collection...

Fifteen stories dealing with spiritualism, Egyptian magic, psychometry, and other domains of the...

Nathaniel Hawthorne has taken some of the most striking and exciting Greek legends and adapted them...