"The Mysterious Island" is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874.The plot focuses on the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South...
The Prophecy Of Malachias
MALACHIAS, whose name signifies The Angel of the Lord, was contemporary with NEHEMIAS, and by some is believed to have been the same person as ESDRAS. He was the last of the...
Three Men In A Boat (to Say Nothing Of The Dog)
"Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)" published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the...
The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886....
How To Be A Perfect Snob
"Snobs are to be studied like other objects of Natural Science, and are a part of the Beautiful (with a large B). They pervade all classes".William Makepeace...
Sonnets
"Sonnets" is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets accredited to William Shakespeare which cover themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. It...
Treasure Island
"Treasure Island" is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book...
Gulliver's Travels
"Gulliver's Travels" is a satire by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the...
A Little Princess
"A Little Princess" is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is an expanded version of Burnett's 1888 short story entitled "Sara Crewe: or,...
Thérèse Raquin
"Thérèse Raquin" tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt who may seem to be well-intentioned but in...
