Burlesques
  • By William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

THE ANNOUNCEMENT.On the 1st of January, 1838, I was the master of a lovely shop in the neighborhood of Oxford Market; of a wife, Mrs. Cox; of a business, both in the shaving and...

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The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
  • By Charles Dudley Warner
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

HOW I KILLED A BEARSo many conflicting accounts have appeared about my casual encounter with an Adirondack bear last summer that in justice to the public, to myself, and to the...

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Varied Types
  • By G. K. Chesterton
  • Publisher: Interactive Media

G.K. Chesterton's essays on big literary names and their influences on literature, featuring: Charlotte Bronte, Stevenson, Leo Tolstoy, Ruskin, William Morris, Byron, Thomas...

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Benito Cereno
  • By Herman Melville
  • Publisher: Herman Melville

Benito Cereno is a novella by Herman Melville. It was first serialized in Putnam's Monthly in 1855 and later included a slightly revised version in his collection The Piazza...

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Supernatural Horror In Literature
  • By H.P. Lovecraft
  • Publisher: Enrico Conti

"Supernatural Horror in Literature" is a long essay by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the topic of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and...

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The Bell-tower
  • By Herman Melville
  • Publisher: Herman Melville

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet from the American Renaissance period. Most of his writings were...

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A House Of Pomegranates(annotated)
  • By Oscar Wilde
  • Publisher: Enrico Conti

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he...

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Bartleby, The Scrivener
  • By Herman Melville
  • Publisher: Herman Melville

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. At the start of his story the lawyer already employs...

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Contributions To All The Year Round
  • By Charles Dickens
  • Publisher: iOnlineShopping.com

All the Year Round was a Victorian periodical, being a British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United...

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Bel Ami
  • By Guy de Maupassant
  • Publisher: Guy de Maupassant

Bel Ami is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel first appeared in...

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