Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers.
Sonnets from the Portuguese is the collection of love poems written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Though Frances Burney's novels significantly influenced writers such as Jane Austen.
The Shadow Line is a novella by Joseph Conrad. A young man becomes captain of a ship in the Orient
The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.
Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness.
Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.
Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.
The Trojan Women follows the women of Troy after the famous war which devastated their city.
The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.
Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.
Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation.
Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.
The spiritual life depends on self-recollection and detachment from the rush of life.
It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American.