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.

The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.

At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account.

In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.

H. P. Blavatsky, or Madame Blavatsky, was a founder of Theosophy.

Trips to the Moon collects together three works by the Assyrian master of rhetoric and satire.

Isabella L. Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveler, writer.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.

Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.

Zane Grey's best-known novel, Riders of the Purple Sage, was first published in 1912.

Richard Marsh's best-selling supernatural thriller The Beetle.

This book takes Beauty as already existing and enjoyed, and seeks to analyze and account.

Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation.

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789.

Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.

Opening with the famous line This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

Anticipations: Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought.

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