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O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a...

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the...

Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most brillilant and controversial social and literary gures of all time. Wilde's prison...

Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the...

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the...

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their...

In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mildmannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona -...

Sons and Lovers is a wonderful novel on the complex nature of love in its many forms. We follow the lives of the Morel family who...

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or...

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she...

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young people fall in love and...

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Crusoe sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a...

Ernst Theodor Amadeus (E. T. A.) Hofrmann ist ein beruhmter deutscher Schriftsteller, in dessen Werken gehen die Geisterwelt,...

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners - one of the popular novels of all time - that features splendidly...

Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily...

In Othello Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it...

Victor Hugo est un ecrivain romantique francais mondialement celebre. L'influence de son oeuvre, creee au XIXe siecle, sur...

Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Aus-ten's Gothic parody. Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic...

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to...

Nightmare Abbey was written in 1818 by Thomas Love Peacock. It is a gothic satire, which delights in parodying the current...

Mrs. Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we...

'Call me Ishmael.'
So begins Herman Melville's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. As...

Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of the most fiendish characters in literature. In a satanic bargain, Melmoth...

The semiautobiographical Martin Eden is the most vital and original character Jack London ever created. Set in San Francisco,...

Celebre romancier francais, Gustave Flaubert est considere a bon droit comme une des figures de proue de la litterature...

One of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt and revenge. Prompted by...

Haunted by the memory of a moment of lost nerve during a disastrous voyage, Jim submits to condemnation by a Court of Inquiry. In...

When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's...