Fanny's First Play is a 1911 play by G. Bernard Shaw. A play by a writer who wished to remain anonymous, then later discovered to be written by George Bernard Shaw and produced by The Shuberts. It opened in Sep 16, 1912 and had the longest ...

In the 1909, American agronomist F.H. King toured China, Korea, and Japan, studying traditional fertilization, tillage, and general farming practices. He wrote his findings in Farmers of Forty Centuries, Or Permanent Agriculture in China, K...

Father Sergius (Russian: Отец Сергий, Otyets Syergiy) is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy in 1890 and published in 1898. This story also exists as Yakov Protazanov's silent film from 1917 of the same name and an earlier versio...

hero of one of the most durable legends in Western folklore and literature, the story of a German necromancer or astrologer who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. There was a historical Faust, indeed perhaps ...