Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating...

The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground was James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, published in 1821. This was the earliest United...

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth...

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. In planning his novel, F....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

King Lear, growing old and too tired to reign, decides to divide his realm amongst his three daughters, leaving the largest share...

Homme de lettres remarquable du XVIIIe siecle, Antoine Francois Prevost est un des inventeurs du "roman...

More than a century after its publication Heart of Darkness remains an indisputably classic text and arguably Conrad's finest...

One of the greatest plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the tormented young prince of Denmark continues to capture the...

L'un des plus grands maitres de la satire francaise du XVIe siecle, Francois Rabelais est un classique de la litterature...

Lope de Vega fue uno de los poetas y dramaturgos mas importantes del Siglo de Oro espanol y, por la extension de su obra, uno de...

Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science fiction genres, not only tells a...

Jorge Luis Borges es un legendario prosista, poeta y publicista argentino. La prosa de Borges se destaca ante todo por sus...

Lope de Vega fue uno de los poetas y dramaturgos mas importantes del Siglo de Oro espanol y, por la extension de su obra, uno de...

A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss...

A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters - the...

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