The Vampyre is a short story written by John William Polidori and first published in 1819.

Black Beauty (1877) is the classic children's book by English author Anna Sewell.

Agrave rebours, Against the Grain or Against Nature in English.

First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1817 work Biographia Literaria is an autobiography in discourse.

William Wells Brown's Clotel or, The President's Daughter is often considered the first novel.

Titus Livius, often known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian.

The Ancient Greek Euripides wrote the play Hippolytus, a tragedy based on the myth.

Considered the first in-depth critique of consumerism, economist Thorstein Veblen's 1899 book.

British writer Edith Maude Hull was best known for her classic romantic novel.

Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled.

You can acquire valuable knowledge for use in your own public speaking.

The power of eloquence to move and persuade men is universally recognized.

The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself.

The Princess and the Goblin is an enduring children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald.

The String of Pearls is the first installment of the Sweeney Todd penny part serial.

The Cloud upon the Sanctuary is a work of Christian mysticism written in 1909.

A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding.

A nine year old boy's mother dies shortly after the death of his father.

First published in 1901, The Black Mask is the second collection of stories.