Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or pe...

A touching portrait of a complicated family. The Moorland Cottage is a story about a woman asked ...

Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for vir...

The Woman in White is the first and greatest 'Sensation Novel.' Walter Hartright's mysterious mid...

The play concerns a group of women, the leader of which is Praxagora. She has decided that the wo...

It is one of several nineteenth-century novels which uncovers the changes in women's work in the ...

The book begins with Anne and Gilbert's wedding, which takes place in the Green Gables orchard. G...

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or pe...

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or pe...

In Turn of the Screw a friend reads his recently finished manuscript to the unnamed narrator. The...

One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of Middle Eastern, West and South Asian stories and f...

Babbitt is professionally successful as a realtor. He lives with only the vaguest awareness of th...

Stranded deep in enemy territory, the Spartan general Clearchus and the other Greek senior office...

Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (1846-1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, ...

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylu...

Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author ...

Lucy Maud Montgomerywas born at Clifton (now New London), PrinceEdward Island, Canada, on Novembe...

Mark Robarts, is a young vicar, newly arrived in the village of Framley in Barsetshire. Mark has ...

Follow Rollo, and his friends, on their many adventures. You will have fun learning about subject...

Aeschylus was the first of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays can still be read or pe...

This novel introduces Natty Bumppo as 'Deerslayer', a young frontiersman in early 18th-century Ne...

As in his other early plays, Aristophanes pokes satirical fun at the demagogue Cleon but in The W...

For the happiness you have brought to them let me give to you the doll of all my dolls, the doll ...

Augustus Melmotte is a foreign-born financier with a mysterious past. When he moves his business ...

It is September 1793 and French Agent and chief spy-catcher Chauvelin is determined to get his re...

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women. In the...

Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire All...

Hopefully, these books will be found, perhaps, after all, to be useful mainly in entertaining and...

Sarah Orne Jewett, who wrote the book when she was 47, was largely responsible for popularizing t...

The book tells us the story of peasant Demetrio Macías, who becomes the enemy of a local cacique ...

The story of the Middle Ages is told through the lives of such men as Attila the Hun, Charlemagne...

Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred...

The action centers on Lancelot's rescue of the queen after she has been abducted by Meleagant, th...

There is something so natural, and at the same time so unnatural, in seeing a door open when we k...

William Butler Yeats, was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th ce...

The Kingdom of God Is Within You is the non-fiction magnum opus of Leo Tolstoy and was initially ...

Among the Farmyard People includes eighteen charming tales about the everyday life of the farmyar...

The present age is not merely an epoch of discovery; it is also a period of revision of the vario...

Eva March Tappan was a teacher and American author born in Blackstone, Massachusetts, she graduat...

As with all ofElizabeth Gaskell's novels Wives and Daughters explores the limits of class and lov...

This collection contains fifty-eight essays, published at various times between 1597 and 1625, on...

Our Island Story is the 'history' of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these st...

The Clouds can be considered not only the world's first extant 'comedy of ideas' but also a brill...

Francis Bacon is considered the father of modern science. He proposed, at his time, a great refor...

The Frogs tells the story of the god Dionysus, despairing of the state of Athens' tragedians, and...

Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of pilgrims travelling ...

The story takes place at sea, near the Gulf of Siam, and is told from the perspective of a young ...

Elizabeth von Arnim's novel tells the story of four dissimilar women in 1920s England who leave t...