Lucy Maud Montgomery , (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (November 30, 1874-April 24, 1942) was a Canadian ...

...John Muir was the first modern preservationist and founder of the Sierra Club. He helped save the Yosemite Valley and wilderness areas in the Sierra ...

Grace Livingston Hill was an early 20th century Christian Romance novelist. She is credited with having written hundreds of short stories and novels. ...

Manual of Parlour Games has long been a desideratum among the social and family circles of town and country. Those which are most generally in use have ...

Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 -1583) was an English adventurer, explorer, and Member of Parliament. He is thought to have claimed the first land in North ...

Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) wrote New Atlantis around 1632. He wrote of his aspiration for establishing an ideal commonwealth. This section from the introduction ...

Blasco wrote Spanish realist novels and was also a director and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ((Los ...

The Prometheus Unbound is a four-act play by Percy Bysshe Shelley originally published in 1820. This work is inspired by Aeschylus's "Prometheus Bound" ...