The Ancient Greek Euripides wrote the play Hippolytus, a tragedy based on the myth.
Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes recounts Robert Louis Stevenson's 120 mile.
The spirit of simplicity is a great magician.
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, from 1651, is one of the first and most influential arguments.
The horror novel The Lair of the White Worm, also titled The Garden of Evil.
This book is written with the object of laying before the public a cookery book.
The Second Deluge is a science fiction novel by Garrett P. Serviss.
We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case.
A GREAT BOOK is a living organism. Months, years, or centuries may go into its gestation.
Henri Barbusse's Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (in the original French Le Feu.
Browning's dramatic poem The Ring and the Book narrates the trial of a Roman for the death.
In his satiric poem Don Juan, Lord Byron refigures the legend as a man easily seduced by women.
Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name.
Bel Ami was the second published novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet, known for.
At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account.
The Bible is one of the two or three oldest books in the world, but unlike most of the ancient books.
How are we to live the larger life? Partly through uninspired struggle.
John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga collects together three novels and two interludes.
Written in 1919, George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House is equal parts tragedy and comedy.