Fun & Entertainment
1) Through the Looking Glass |
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Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll, Fiction |
2) Thus Spake Zarathustra |
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Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzache, Literature |
3) The Uncommercial Traveller |
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Battling insomnia Charles Dickens spent his time taking long walks through London. The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches Dickens made during that period. |
4) The Son of the Wolf |
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Quote, "Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them. |
5) The Mysterious Key And What It Opened |
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Quote, "When Paul spoke in that tone and wore that look, Lillian felt as if they had changed places, and he was the master and she the servant. |
6) The Light Princess |
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Quote, "So perfectly like other people had she been in the water, that even yet the prince could scarcely believe his eyes when he saw her ascend slowly, grasp the balcony, and disappear through the window. |
7) The Great Stone Face |
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Quote, "The Great Stone Face, then, was a work of Nature in her mood of majestic playfulness, formed on the perpendicular side of a mountain by some immense rocks, which had been thrown together in such a position as, when viewed at a proper. |
8) The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin |
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc, Fiction |
9) The End of the Tether |
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Quote ,"The sacred edifice, standing in solemn isolation amongst the converging avenues of enormous trees, as if to put grave thoughts of heaven into the hours of ease, pre- sented a closed Gothic portal to the light and glory of the west. |
10) The Dead Alive |
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The Dead Alive is a novel written by Wilkie Collins based on the famous Boorn Brothers murder case. |
11) The Black Arrow |
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The Black Arrow is a 15th century war story by Robert Louis Stevenson . The House of Lancaster and the House of York go into the battle for the crown of England. |
12) The Blue Fairy Book |
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The Blue Fairy Book, Andrew Lang, Fiction |
13) The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers |
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Quote, "I intend in a short time to publish a large and rational defence of this art, and therefore shall say no more in its justification at present, than that it hath been in all ages defended by many learned men, and among the rest by. |
14) The Adventures of Gerard |
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The Adventures of Gerard follows one of the 58 tales of famous detective Sherlock Holmes as written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Fiction |
15) Tales of Unrest |
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Quote, ".who maintained that his name was Henry Price. However, for some reason or other, the natives down the river had given him the name of Makola, and it stuck to him through all his wanderings about the country. |
16) THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, A Collection of Hol |
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THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, A Collection of Holmes Adventures, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction |
17) Symposium |
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Symposium by Plato is a Socratic dialogue about the theme of love. The major conclusion being that true love means being the lover and not the beloved. |
18) Stories From Hans Andersen |
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Stories From Hans Andersen. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Seven children's stories by the celebrated master story-teller with illustrations by the master illustrator of the 19th and 20th centuries. Dulac was one of the central Edwardian illustrators |
19) South Sea Tales |
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South Sea Tales is London's collection of eight sea tales set in the South Seas, that encompass acts of slavery, savagery, death and humour. |
20) Sea Warfare |
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Sea Warfare is Kiplings collection of poems, theories, essays, and reminiscences on sea warfare. |




















