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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic. As an author he created the fictional priest-detective Father Brown, and produced several notable works on apologetics including Orthodoxy (1908) and The Everlasting Man (1925). He routinely referred to himself as an 'orthodox' Christian, and came to identify this position more and more with Catholicism, eventually converting t...

Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin (1884-1937) was a Russian author of science fiction and political satire, most famous for his 1921 novel 'We', a story set in a dystopian future police state. Despite having been a prominent Old Bolshevik, he was deeply disturbed by the policies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) following the October Rvolution. 'We' became the first work banned by the Soviet censorship board and Zamyatin arranged for ...

Jean Webster was the pseudonym of Alice Jane Chandler Webster (1876-1916), an American writer whose best-known books tell the stories of young and likeable female protagonists as they come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, combining humour, witty dialogue, and gently biting social commentary. In 1897 she entered Vassar College where a course in welfare and penal reform led to an interest in social issues that would last throughout ...

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First published in 1869.

Method, Application and Use of Hypnotism.

Filed sports and poaching in 19th century England.

I am to dine with him this evening, and I shall cordially recommend you. I may say that Briggs has gone to that celebrated London detective Mr. Cadbury Taylor, and has engaged him to solve the diamond mystery. So you see you will have a clear field. If you can leave for the castle to-morrow night, you may have the pleasure of Mr. Cadbury Taylor's company. He isn't visiting the castle, but goes straight to Vienna, so if you work your cards righ...

Ellen Glasgow was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, poet and writer of literary criticism.

George Gibbs was a writer and illustrator.

If my voice could have been heard at the late changes, I should have said, "Gently, patience, stop a little, the time is not yet come, the mud of Poland will harden, and the bowels of the French grenadiers will recover their tone. When honesty, good sense, and liberality have extricated you out of your present embarrassment, then dismiss them as a matter of course, but you cannot spare them just now, don't be in too great a hurry, or there wil...

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Regard for the lovers of the Old Masters, and for the moral well-being of society, forbids me to be particular about the nature of my labors, or to go into dangerous detail on the subject of my first failures and my subsequent success. I may, however, harmlessly admit that my Rembrandt was to be of the small or cabinet size, and that, as there was a run on Burgomasters just then, my subject was naturally to be of the Burgomaster sort.

My wife, in her impulsive way, forgot the formalities proper to the occasion, and kissed her at parting. At that one little act of sisterly sympathy, the fortitude which the poor creature had preserved all through the evening gave way in an instant. She burst into tears. I felt as fond of her and as sorry for her as my wife. But (unfortunately) I could not take my wife's privilege of kissing her. On our way downstairs, I found the opportunity ...

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