Nobel Laureates

The wife of a town doctor dreams of initiating social reforms and introducing art and literature to the community.

Panorama of Norwegian life in the first half of the 14th century and the tumultous life of a woman, traces Kristin's life from childhood to death

Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, of Protestant stock, in 1856, and died at Ayot St. Lawrence, Herts., in 1950. After a false start in XIX-century fashion as a novelist, he made a reputation as a journalist-critic of books, pictures, music and the drama. Meanwhile he had plunged into the Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties and come out as one of the leaders who made the Fabian Society famouns, figuring prominently not only as a pamphleteer...

European plays produced successfully in America include The Lark, My Three Angels, and the Play's the Thing.

A narrative of the time of Nero.

Poems about astronomy, geography, physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine as well as poems about the scientists themselves.