Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.
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,.
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.
Why did a Union-loving, secession-opposing young college student volunteer.