Dickens' second historical novel, which he considered "the best story I have written," provides a highly-charged examination of...

Oscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was...

This collection of eleven stories spans virtually the whole of Tolstoy's creative life. While each is unique in form, as a group...

Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr, Oscar Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when...

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The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the...

'Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.'

F. Scott Fitzgerald's first story collection, Flappers and Philosophers,...

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in...

'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you...