Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.
Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation.
Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.
Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.
Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.
In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.
The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.
The Trojan Women follows the women of Troy after the famous war which devastated their city.
Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.
Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.
A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.
Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness.
Honoré de Balzac's renowned Lost Illusions consists of two volumes.
Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.
The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.
The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.
The Shadow Line is a novella by Joseph Conrad. A young man becomes captain of a ship in the Orient