In the world of Hercule Poirot, a movie star's visit to London turns into a quest to recover a fa...

The Secret Adversary introduces Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley, two young friends who form Y...

Eager to leave his job as a tour guide in Zimbabwe, international vagabond Anthony Cade meets by ...

The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic work of early science fiction and one of H. G. Wells' mo...

'It is just when a thing gets beyond me that I

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When Hercule Poirot and his sidekick Arthur Hastings arrive in the French village of Merlinville-...

Would you trade your soul for eternal youth? Oscar Wilde's provocative novel, The Picture of Dori...

One morning at Styles Court, an Essex country manor, the elderly owner is found dead of strychnin...

In colonial New England, beautiful, young Hester Pryne bears a child although her husband is pres...

Includes The New York Times article on the obituary Wells wrote for himself in 1936, ten years be...

Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, first published in 1886, ranks among the most influen...