The Bible in Basic English strives to simplify the Bible so that more people worldwide can read and understand the text.

Robert Louis Stevenson was a great traveler, who spent his last years in the Pacific, far from his native Scotland.

How can I make life yield its fullest and best? How can I know the true secret of power?

The runaway bestseller The Magic Story was first published in 1900 in Success Magazine. It has been constantly in print ever since.

Originally this was published by the author (1784-1849), a former governor of South Carolina, as a 22-page booklet, in 1838.

The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry. A young and very much in love couple can barely afford their one-room apartment, let alone the extra expense of getting Christmas presents for one another.

Isabella L. Bird was a nineteenth-century English traveler, writer, and a natural historian.

The Emerson System treats the voice as a natural reporter of the individual, constantly emphasizing the tendency of the voice to express appropriately any mental concept or state of feeling.

Orlando Furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando, more literally Mad Orlando; in Italian furioso is seldom capitalized) is an Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture.

We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us their children.