Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw.
The Best American Humorous Short Stories features tales from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and many other well known writers.
When Robert Browning first met the ailing Elizabeth Barrett in 1845 it must have seemed to him like something from a gothic novel.
Rousseau wrote about the difficulty of being a good individual within an inherently corrupting collectivity: society.
The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.
The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier.
The soul-consuming and friction-wearing tendency of this hurrying, grasping, competing age is the excuse for this book.
Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life, tells of her early life and of her experiences with Annie Sullivan, her teacher and companion.
This little book contains three plain sermons which were preached in New York in the Easter season of 1919, in the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which my son is minister.
A Room with a View is a romance and a social critique of Edwardian society.
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) follows two women to Italy: the widowed Lilia Herriton and her traveling companion Caroline Abbott.
Scottish writer Andrew Lang is best remember for his prolific collections of folk and fairy tales, but he was also an accomplished poet, literary critic, novelist and contributor in the field of anthropology.
It was in the year 1869 that impressed with the degree in which, even during the last twenty years, when the world seemed wholly occupied with other matters.
First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires.
Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy.
In a Glass Darkly collects together five short stories from gothic horror and mystery writer Sheridan Le Fanu.
Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple became a huge seller in America from its first publication there in 1794, subsequently going through over two hundred editions.
Cook has baked Mrs Harris a cake and would like King Rollo to deliver it to her.
Describes the busy life of Senator Dianne Feinstein of Californiaseen.