William Sutherland

G. A. Henty's latest historical adventure story for boys is set in ancient times during the Punic wars between Carthage and Rome, who are vying for world...

In November 1910, the vessel Terra Nova left New Zealand carrying an international team of explorers led by Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman determined to...

Captain Frederick Marryat of the Royal Navy knew well both the thunder of the broadside and the laughter of the gun room. In Percival Keene, he takes us on a...

Tales for a Winter's Night brings together eight Arthur Conan Doyle mystery classics that originally appeared in the Strand between July 1898 and January...

Compiled after his death in 1662, Pascal's"pensR)es" (thoughts) are his ideas for a book in defense of faith in a rational world. These fragments give...

Cleopatra lies asleep. One white, rounded arm makes a pillar for her head. The web of her dark hair falls over her like lace. Her limbs are draped in a robe...

Young people across America are rediscovering G. A. Henty, the nineteenth-century literary genius whose historical adventures inspire boys toward honesty,...

Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to the...

Hailed by the New York Times as ';one of the most inventive, brilliant novelists in the Western world,' Yoram Kaniuk turns his hand to nonfiction to bring us...

';Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective storiesThe least that I can do is write you one.' So wrote A. A. Milne to his father, to...

The good Doctor Dolittle, accompanied by his devoted animal friends, sets sail once again. This time it is a voyage of discovery to learn the secret of the...

';Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me' So begins one of the most beloved hymns of all time. This is the autobiography of the man...