The stated purpose of the book is to "open the door to the thinking and sentiment of the reader of a just, unrealistic representation of the real world, instead of the...

"Her lover" is a short story by Maxim GorkyMaxim Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer.Translated by Thomas Seltzer.

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan...

Nathaniel Hawthorne  (July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.Hattie Tyng Griswold (1842 - 1909) was a 19th-century...

"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is a play by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish...

"Oliver Twist" is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens and was first published as a serial 1837–39.Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June...

"Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian...

Over thousands of years, human beings have built habitats in response to their increasingly complex needs. The ultimate form of these habitats is the modern city: a feat in which...

"Heart of Darkness" (1899) is a novella by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by...

A vast collection of Wilde's aphorisms.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.