The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.
Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a novella by American author Stephen Crane.
Father Goriot is one of French novelist Honore de Balzac's most important pieces of writing.
Honoré de Balzac's renowned Lost Illusions consists of two volumes.
Life is a Dream is a play about free will and fate.
Bel Ami was the second published novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is, according to Dickens, a novel about selfishness.
Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captains Courageous follows the adventures and subsequent growth.
The Monk: A Romance tells of the spectacular downfall of a Spanish monk. Ambroio lusts.
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family.
A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.
Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet, known for.
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.