"Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian...
A vast collection of Wilde's aphorisms.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
"Twelve Years a Slave" is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup.Solomon Northup (1808 – 1863) was an American abolitionist.
"Kim" is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. Kim (Kimball O'Hara) is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish...
"Frankenstein" is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about the young student of science Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentient creature in...
"Heart of Darkness" (1899) is a novella by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by...
Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904), was a U.S. author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana.
"The author was spending some weeks with a party of choice and very dear friends, on an excursion to southern Italy. Nothing could have been more fabulously and dreamily...
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885....
"The Darling" (1899) is a short story by Russian author Anton Chekhov.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be...