Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789.

Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation.

Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

This book takes Beauty as already existing and enjoyed, and seeks to analyze and account.

Richard Marsh's best-selling supernatural thriller The Beetle.

Zane Grey's best-known novel, Riders of the Purple Sage, was first published in 1912.

Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.

Isabella L. Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveler, writer.

Trips to the Moon collects together three works by the Assyrian master of rhetoric and satire.

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.