Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.
The Trojan Women follows the women of Troy after the famous war which devastated their city.
In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.
Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.
Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.
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,.
It is the natural right of every human being to be happy - to escape all the miseries of life.
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.
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler was first published in 1890.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American.
After asking the sun, a cloud, the wind, and a wall to marry her, a mouse finds just the right husband.
These two stories by Koos Rozemond, with English translations by Aart van den End.
Winesburg, Ohio is a series of loosely linked short stories set in the fictional town.
The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777.
The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.
A religion of just being kind would be a pretty good religion, don't you think so?
Since its publication in 1678, The Pilgrim's Progress has never been out of print.