The Deerslayer is the last book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.

The Last of the Mohicans is the second book in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy.

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.

Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.

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.

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.

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.

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

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

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

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.

When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense.

The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds.