Pierre Corneille's tragicomedy Le Cid is based on the legend of the same name.

Life is a Dream is a play about free will and fate.

Bel Ami was the second published novel by French writer Guy de Maupassant.

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.

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

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

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

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

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789.

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

First published in 1920, The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants.

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

English author and literary critic D. H. Lawrence writes in Fantasia of the Unconscious.

John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga collects together three novels and two interludes.

The Adventures of Caleb Williams, or Things as They Are (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume.

Tales of Space and Time collects together two novellas and three short stories.

Miranda Blair, a writer about mysterious death cases, is investigating the death of a child.

A religion of just being kind would be a pretty good religion, don't you think so?

Since its publication in 1678, The Pilgrim's Progress has never been out of print.