Honoré de Balzac (/ˈbɔːlzæk, ˈbæl-/; French: [ɔ.nɔ.ʁe d(ə) bal.zak]; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His...

In Scotland, the unlucky name is 'Stuart'. Robert I, founder of the race, died at twenty-eight of a lingering illness. Robert II, the most fortunate of the family, was obliged to...

“The Young Visiters”(1919) is a short “society novel” written by Miss Daisy Ashford at the age of nine. Its child's view of high society (dukes and...

Winner of the 1926 Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn this tragic novel set in the author's native Sardinia, Constantino Ledda has been convicted and sentenced for the murder of his...

Bram Stoker's finest Vampire novel, featuring Jonathan Harker, Professor Van Helsing, Wilhemina Murray, Lucy Westenra, Dr John Seward, Quincey Morris, Hon. Arthur Holmwood,...

This collection of Rilke's best novels includes some of his most magical and mysterious works. This selection includes his first poems, The Book of Pictures poems, New Poems, The...

Daisy considered herself a brave girl, able to do any kind of work. Despite the warnings from her friends and family, she decided to deliver pizzas in order to make some money...

The Social Secretary is another exiting novel by David Graham Phillips.Phillips was born in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from high school, Phillips entered Asbury College...

The world takes people very willingly at the estimate in which they hold themselves. With a fashionable bias for expression in a foreign tongue it calls modesty mauvaise honte;...

Being employed with a stepdad that you have feelings for was one of the most difficult, most exciting things that happened to Michele. At one point, she knew that she had to work...