Honoré de Balzac's renowned Lost Illusions consists of two volumes.
Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.
Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.
The Monk: A Romance tells of the spectacular downfall of a Spanish monk. Ambroio lusts.
A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.
Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet, known for.
Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.
The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.
At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account.
H. P. Blavatsky, or Madame Blavatsky, was a founder of Theosophy.
Trips to the Moon collects together three works by the Assyrian master of rhetoric and satire.
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.
Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.
Richard Marsh's best-selling supernatural thriller The Beetle.
This book takes Beauty as already existing and enjoyed, and seeks to analyze and account.
Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789.
Opening with the famous line This is the saddest story I have ever heard.
Anticipations: Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought.