Samuel Smiles, (born Dec. 23, 1812, Haddington, Berwickshire, Scot.—died April 16, 1904, London), Scottish author best known for his didactic work ...

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th ...

John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. ...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála 'Emmuska' Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born ...

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála 'Emmuska' Orczy de Orci (23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947) was a Hungarian-born ...

Hilaire Belloc, in full Joseph-Hilaire-Pierre-René Belloc, (born July 27, 1870, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Fr.—died July 16, 1953, Guildford, ...

Against Apion is a polemical work written by Flavius Josephus as a defense of Judaism as a classical religion and philosophy against criticism by Apion ...

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. Wharton ...

INTRODUCTION: It is of the utmost value to learn how to concentrate. To make the greatest success of anything you must be able to concentrate your entire ...

Sir Edwin Arnold, (born June 10, 1832, Gravesend, Kent, Eng.—died March 24, 1904, London), poet and journalist, best known as the author of The ...