Why did a Union-loving, secession-opposing young college student volunteer.
These are the passionate and poignant letters from General George E. Pickett, C.S.A.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American.
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler was first published in 1890.
It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons.
The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from the rush of life.
It is the natural right of every human being to be happy - to escape all the miseries of life.
Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.
Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation.
Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.
Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.
In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.
The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.
The Trojan Women follows the women of Troy after the famous war which devastated their city.
Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.
Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.
A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.
Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.