Books in Timeless Wisdom Collection series

In this novel, five Americans escape from the Civil War, and end up on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The novel is a crossover sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are vastly different from those books It is the twelfth of the Voyages Extraordinaires, the 54-novel-series written by Verne, which in his own words intended “to conclude in story form my whole survey of the world’s surface and the heavens; there are still left corners of the world to which my thoughts have not yet penetrated … I have dealt with the moon, but a great deal remains to be done.”His attention to detail and scientific trivia, and his sense of wonder and exploration, are the backbone of the novels, in which the reader could acquire knowledge of geology, biology, astronomy, paleontology, oceanography, etc., as well as to travel to the exotic locations and cultures of the world through the adventures of Verne's protagonists.Some of the best known and most popular novels in history are part of this series, including Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863); Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864); Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1869–70); From the Earth to the Moon (1865); Around the World in Eighty Days (1873), etc.

George Robert Gissing (1857 – 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. New Grub Street is among his most famous ones, and its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement. Its title derives from the notion that there was an excess of one million women over men in Victorian England. This meant there were "odd" women left over at the end of the equation when the other men and women had paired off in marriage. George Orwell admired the book and thought it illustrated well one of the major themes of all Gissing's works—the "self-torture that goes by the name of respectability"

George Robert Gissing (1857 – 1903) was an English novelist who published 23 novels between 1880 and 1903. The Nether World is among his most famous ones, and it concerns several poor families living in the slums of 19th century London. Rich in naturalistic detail, it concentrates on the individual problems and hardships which result from the typical shortages experienced by the lower classes — want of money, employment and decent living conditions. It is a pessimistic novel in a pessimistic world, as it depicts exclusively the lives of poor people: there is no juxtaposition with the world of the rich.