His mother calls him from daydreams to go to school.
Dave Saren has a past riddled with drugs and booze, one he’s trying hard to overcome.
The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.
My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works.
Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin.
Lady Audley's Secret was one of the first and most successful sensation novels of the late 19th century. A young gentleman of leisure, Robert Audley, is spurred into action when his friend Geroge Talboys goes missing from Audley Court.
In Jack London's 1910 story Before Adam a young boy dreams that he is living the life of an early hominid, giving human evolution an early and entertaining portrayal.
Catherine, a seventeen year old girl, travels with her family to Bath and makes many new acquaintance, including two young men who pursue her.
One of H. G. Wells' first ventures outside of the science fiction realm, the novel Love and Mr. Lewisham was published in the year 1900.
Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories.
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.
The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.
Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.
As You Like It is truly one of Shakespeare's greatest romantic comedies.
Although originally classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, All's Well That Ends Well is now more commonly classified as one of his ambiguous problem plays, so called because they defy neat classification as either comedy or tragedy.
The Taming of the Shrew is perhaps one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays by modern standards.
King Lear is considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. King Lear decides to step down and divide his kingdom between his three daughters.
The Merchant of Venice is classed as one of Shakespeare's comedies, but is more often remembered for its dramatic characters and situations.
The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most popular short comedy plays.
Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's early tragedies.