Just after he published the work now considered his masterpiece, the epic 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans, the popular American writer JAMES FENIMORE ...

Riata and Spurs: The Story of a Lifetime Spent in the Saddle as a Cowboy and Detective, originally published in 1912, is a first-hand account of the life ...

Here in one compact volume are five short stories-all set in Continental Europe-often hard to find on their own from 19th-century British writers, some ...

[H]appily, as already said, many modern leaders in business now feel that the mere piling up of millions is not the highest goal attainable in business ...

It was a constant battle while they dug a grave and consigned all that was mortal of John Tippet to his last, lonely resting-place. Nor would they leave ...

He is considered one of the greatest novelists in any language in all of human history, but Leo Tolstoy was also an influential social reformer, peace ...

They may be the two most influential scientists on the modern world whom you've never heard of. German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) ...

Sam took the rebuke all the more meekly as he perceived the stiff black legs of a turkey poking-out from under my grandmother's apron while she was delivering ...

Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with ...

“You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land ...