H. P. Blavatsky, or Madame Blavatsky, was a founder of Theosophy.

In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.

At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet, known for.

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.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family.

The Monk: A Romance tells of the spectacular downfall of a Spanish monk. Ambroio lusts.

Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness.

Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.

Bel Ami was the second published novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant.

Life is a Dream is a play about free will and fate.

Honoré de Balzac's renowned Lost Illusions consists of two volumes.

Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.