Plain Tales from the Hills contains 40 stories written by Rudyard Kipling.

This book takes Beauty as already existing and enjoyed, and seeks to analyze and account.

Richard Marsh's best-selling supernatural thriller The Beetle.

Zane Grey's best-known novel, Riders of the Purple Sage, was first published in 1912.

Fearing rejection by her community, Helene Alving stayed with her philandering husband.

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882.

Isabella L. Bird (1831 - 1904) was a nineteenth-century English traveler, writer.

Trips to the Moon collects together three works by the Assyrian master of rhetoric and satire.

H. P. Blavatsky, or Madame Blavatsky, was a founder of Theosophy.

In 1856 the Reverend Edmund Donald Carr was overtaken by a blizzard.

At the turn of the 17th century, English writer and explorer Sir Walter Scott read an account.

The Gift of the Magi is a treasured short story written by O. Henry.

The Trojan Women follows the women of Troy after the famous war which devastated their city.

Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American philosopher and poet, known for.

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is exactly what it claims.

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

A country girl moves to the big city and lives her own version of the American Dream.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family.

The Monk: A Romance tells of the spectacular downfall of a Spanish monk. Ambroio lusts.