The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous...

a collection of glamour images by american photographer Rick Trottier

A lightweight romantic fantasy in which Lord Byron and Shelley figure in its pages, under different names and different worldly circumstances from those in which they actually...

"Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting" is the title of a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift. It also has appeared under the title Thoughts on Various...

"God Sees the Truth, But Waits" is a short story by Russian author Leo Tolstoy first published in 1872.Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the...

An Alpine Divorce is a short story by Robert Barr.Robert Barr (16 September 1849 – 21 October 1912) was a Scottish-Canadian short story writer and...

"The District Doctor" is a russian short story. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818 – 1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright.Translated...

The text presents the main topics related to advertising, from its evolution in the post-war period until the global advertising through advertising agencies, the effects of...

The Canterbury Pilgrims is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.

The stated purpose of the book is to "open the door to the thinking and sentiment of the reader of a just, unrealistic representation of the real world, instead of the...