Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855.
Aphra Behn was one of the first professional English female writers.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books.
Though Frances Burney's novels significantly influenced writers such as Jane Austen.
Evelina is the daughter of an English aristocrat, but is brought up in the country.
The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.
The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.
Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.
Honoré de Balzac's renowned Lost Illusions consists of two volumes.
Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.
A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.
Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.
The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.
In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.
Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.
Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.
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.
It is a good thing to observe Christmas day. The mere marking of times and seasons.