A novel tells the story of a man who leads an ordinary, uneventful life, until overnight he becomes the trustee of his 10-year-old niece, and involved ...

The impact attributed to the book is great, reinforced by a story that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincoln declared, ...

Francis Pettigrew is holidaying with his wife, Eleanor, in Exmoor when the past returns to haunt him. When he stumbles over a body on a remote hill on ...

The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-re ...

In the essay, "Walking" by Henry David Thoreau, one of the "Seven Elements in Nature Writing," which is continuous throu ...

Stanton Laird, a young American geologist with tragedy in his youth, comes to the Western Australian outback to search for oil. There he meets an untr ...

The life of Francis Bacon is one which it is a joy to write or to read. It is the life of a man endowed with as rare a combination of noble ...

John Stuart Mill was born on Rodney Street in the Pentonville area of London, the eldest son of the Scottish philosopher, historian and economist Jame ...