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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view.In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. The first story, «A Scandal in Bohemia», includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking «The Adventure of the Speckled Band» as his overall favourite.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook ContextBook Critical ReceptionBook Daptations

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry «Huck» Finn, the narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective) and a friend of Tom Sawyer. It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to exist over 20 years before the work was published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire on entrenched attitudes, particularly racism.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook Illustrations

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Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (18321888) which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books over several months at the request of her publisher. Following the lives of the four March sistersMeg, Jo, Beth and Amythe novel details their passage from childhood to womanhood and is loosely based on the author and her three sisters. Scholars classify Little Women as an autobiographical or semi-autobiographical novel. Little Women was an immediate commercial and critical success, with readers demanding to know more about the characters. Alcott quickly completed a second volume (titled Good Wives in the United Kingdom, although this name originated from the publisher and not from Alcott). It was also successful. The two volumes were issued in 1880 as a single novel titled Little Women. Alcott wrote two sequels to her popular work, both of which also featured the March sisters: Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Little Women differed notably from contemporary writings for children, especially girls. The novel addressed three major themes: «domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine's individual identity.» Little Women «has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth,» but also "as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well. According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from Romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new format. Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the «All-American girl» and that her various aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook Inspiration

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HOPE: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Albert Einstein, Anne Frank, Barack Obama, Dalai Lama, J.K. Rowling, John Lennon, Malcolm X, Michael Jackson, Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, The Pope And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:Walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone. Shah Rukh Khan-No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. Pittacus Lore-Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. Charles Haddon Spurgeon-Its probably my job to tell you life isnt fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, Ill tell you that hope is precious, and youre right not to give up. C.J. Redwine-Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. Laini Taylor-It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars. Richard Evans

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The Jungle is a 1906 novel by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair (18781968). Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its working conditions was to advance socialism in the United States. However, most readers were more concerned with several passages exposing health violations and unsanitary practices in the American meat packing industry during the early 20th century, which greatly contributed to a public outcry which led to reforms including the Meat Inspection Act. Sinclair famously said of the public reaction, «I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.»The book depicts working-class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, and a hopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrasted with the deeply rooted corruption of people in power. A review by the writer Jack London called it «the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery.» Sinclair was considered a muckraker, or journalist who exposed corruption in government and business. In 1904, Sinclair had spent seven weeks gathering information while working incognito in the meatpacking plants of the Chicago stockyards for the newspaper. He first published the novel in serial form in 1905 in the Socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason, and it was published as a book by Doubleday in 1906.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook ReceptionBook Federal Response

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The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's best known work. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 different languages, making it one of the most translated books in history, and it has never been out of print. -EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook SynposisBook PopularityBook Inspiration

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ROMANCE: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Oprah Winfrey, Pablo Neruda, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lady Gaga, J.K. Rowling, Julio Cortázar, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Dickens, Anaïs Nin And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, Ian whispers. I think we just do. Jodi Picoult-My soul will find yours. Jude Deveraux-Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us. Julio Cortázar-Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. Elinor Glyn-If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Oprah Winfrey

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The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung) is a novella written by Franz Kafka which was first published in 1915. One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German ungeheures Ungeziefer, literally «monstrous vermin»), subsequently struggling to adjust to this new condition. The novella has been widely discussed among literary critics, with differing interpretations being offered.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Plot SummaryBook Interpretation

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LOVE: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOMINCLUDING: Marilyn Monroe, Bob Marley, Pablo Neruda, J.K. Rowling, Gandhi, Paulo Coelho, John Lennon, Mother Teresa, Albert Einstein And Many More!-GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes. Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.-BOOK EXTRACTS:We accept the love we think we deserve. Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower-It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. Friedrich Nietzsche- Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu- Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert A. Heinlein- You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. Jodi Picoult

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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft) is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that expands the ideas of his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra with a more critical and polemical approach. It was first published in 1886.In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man. The work moves into the realm «beyond good and evil» in the sense of leaving behind the traditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructive critique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approach that fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge and the perilous condition of the modern individual.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook Background And ThemesOn Books Morality And Religion

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