The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, first published in 1894. The most famous stories follow Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, learning...

Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse is a novel by Anna Sewell, first published in 1877. Told from the point of view of a horse, it follows Black Beauty's life through kind a...

The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. It follows the adventures of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Mr. Toad as they live by the river an...

No Treason is a composition of three essays by Lysander Spooner, an American individualist anarchist, all written in 1867: No. 1, No. 2: "The Constitution", and No. 6: "The Constit...

The Call of the Wild is an adventure novel by Jack London, first published in 1903. It tells the story of Buck, a domesticated dog stolen and sold as a sled dog in the brutal Yukon...

Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) is a novel by J. M. Barrie, first published in 1911. It tells the story of Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, and his adventures with Wendy and her ...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel by L. Frank Baum, first published in 1900. It tells the story of Dorothy, who is swept by a cyclone to the magical Land of Oz, and ...

Talks to Teachers on Psychology is a classic work by William James, first published in 1899. It applies psychological principles — habit, attention, memory, and interest — to the a...

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by Walt Whitman, first published in 1855. The poems celebrate the self, nature, democracy, and the human body in free verse. It is one of the...

Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not is a classic book by Florence Nightingale, first published in 1859. It offers timeless guidance on ventilation, warmth, light, clea...