Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.

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

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

Daniel Deronda meets the beautiful, extravagant Gwendolen in Germany.

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

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

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

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

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

Silas Marner is accused of stealing funds from his small Christian congregation.

Gustave Flaubert spent his life working on and revising the book he considered his greatest work,.

Opening with the famous line This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense.

The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds.

THE human being who thrills to the experience of beauty in nature and in art does not forever rest.

Compliance with, and deference to, the wishes of others is the finest breeding.

THE MIND OF JESUS! What a study is this! To attain a dim reflection of it.

No matter what our work in life, whether scientific, artistic, or domestic.

The habit of worry is not to be overcome by unaided resolution.

The essential improvements that Scottish inventor James Watt (1736 - 1819) made to the steam engine.