'The Odyssey' by Homer is one of the greatest epic poems in world literature, telling the unforgettable story of Odysseus, the clever king of Ithaca, as he struggles to return home after the Trojan War. Although the war has ended, his journey lasts another ten years, filled with dangerous adventures, powerful gods, mythical creatures, and constant tests of courage and wisdom. Along the way, he faces the Cyclops Polyphemus, resists the enchanting songs of the Sirens, escapes the deadly whir...

The Velveteen Rabbit is a first children's book and a heart-warming tale by Margery Williams, an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books. It is about a stuffed rabbit who longs to become real, and the magic that makes his dream come true.Christmas morning, the room filled with the hustle and bustle of preparation, a rabbit stitched of velveteen sits perched on top of the little boy's stocking. But like most children, the boy is fickle and eas...

First published in 1941, Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton. The novel was immensely popular, placing second on 'The New York Times' list of best-selling novels for the year.It is set in the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Second World War. It is told in the first person of Harrison, and by means of two extended external analepses tells the story of Charles Rainier, a wealthy businessman and politician, from the time he was invalided...

Bookshub. co.inYogananda provides a scientific explanation of the use and power of prayer affirmations for health, success and happiness. The book contributes to conscious understanding and application of the laws governing the super-consciousness. Paramhansa Yogananda was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced millions of westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, 'Autobiography of a Yogi'. Included are comprehensive instructions an...

Bookshub. co.inOriginally published in 1928, this is the book that began Napoleon Hill's self-help odyssey. Hill queried dozens of people about the keys to their prosperity and organized his findings into 16 principles. Each principle marks a chapter of this book, forming a methodology for employing untapped 'mind-power' that leads to success.Hill was well known for researching what made millionaires different from the common man. The sixteen lessons in this book p...

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by one of the most famous playwrights in all of literature, Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe's tragic plays, noted for their blank verse and unique protagonists, were a great influence on the legendary William Shakespeare. This play is based on the Faustus story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe's death and at least twelve years after...

The Blue Castle is a 1926 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The story takes place prior to World War I in the early 1920s in the fictional town of Deerwood, located in the Muskoka region of Ontario and based on the town of Bala, which Montgomery visited once.Valancy Stirling is twenty-nine, unmarried, and has lived her entire life with her gossip-minded family who actively discourage her happiness. When Valancy is diagnosed with a terminal heart ailmen...

The Waves by an English writer, who is considered as one of the most important modernist 20th Century authors and also a pioneer in the use of the stream of consciousness as a narrative device, Virginia Woolf.It is an experimental novel which is considered a key text of the Modernist literary movement. Interspersed with lyrical descriptions of waves breaking against the shoreline, the novel traces the intertwining lives of six friends from childhood to old age, wit...

Mark Twain's "tale" became his first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, published in 1881. This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th Century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, the two realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange clothes and roles-a situation that brief...

Prentice Mulford was one of the leaders of the New Thought Movement. Thoughts are Things is one of the earliest books espousing New Thought teaching. It will help you use the power of your thoughts to improve your life and to bring yourself the peace of mind you've always wished for. Learn how to think in a way that will help you succeed and make you happier in every aspect of your life.This book served as a guide to this new belief system and is still popular toda...

Villette is a novel written by English author Charlotte Bronte's third and last novel. First published in 1853, it is Bronte's most accomplished and deeply felt work. Her narrator, the autobiographical Lucy Snowe, flees England and a tragic past to become an instructor in a French boarding school in the town of Villette. There, she unexpectedly confronts her feelings of love and longing as she witnesses the fitful romance between Dr. John, a handsome young Englishman, and ...

The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad tells the story of Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy against Britain. In a rough-and-ready shop in Soho in Victorian London, Mr. Verloc lives a humble existence sustaining himself, his wife, her infirm mother, and her disabled brother, Stevie. But all is not as it seems with Mr. Verloc, a secret agent in the employ of a foreign government.Verloc is a businessman who owns a shop which sells pornographic material, contraceptives...