E. T. A. Hoffmann’s 1816 fairytale masterpiece The Nutcracker and the Mouse-King, which served as the basis for the famous and beloved holiday-season ballet The Nutcracker,...
On Benefits
On Benefits (De Beneficiis) is a first-century work by Seneca the Younger. It forms part of a series of moral essays (or "Dialogues") composed by Seneca.On Benefits...
Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story Of Wall Street
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville.Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was...
The Old Curiosity Shop
"The Old Curiosity Shop" is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in...
Madame Bovary
"Madame Bovary" is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and...
The Burning Secret
"The Burning Secret" is a short story about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s.Stefan...
The Romance Of Lust
"The Romance of Lust" is a Victorian erotic novel written anonymously in four volumes during the years 1873–1876 and published by William Lazenby. William...
The Voyage Out
"The Voyage Out" is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the US in 1920 by Doran.Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America...
Wacousta
Wacousta by Major John Richardson, is set at Fort Detroit and the surrounding country during Pontiac's rebellion of 1763. The mysterious warrior Wacousta has aligned himself with...
The Wind In The Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in...
