Books on Topic: 'Ambition'

It was first published in serial form in 1864 and 1865. It is the first of six novels in the Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels....

Le Père Goriot est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, commencé à Saché en 1834, dont la publication commence dans la Revue de Paris et qui paraît en 1842 en...

De Brevitate Vitae is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Pau...

Kenilworth. A Romance is a historical romance novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, first published on 13 January 1821. Set in 1575,...

Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, first published in 1892, is about architect Halvard Solness, who despite personal tragedy (including the death of h...

The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a story of romance, race, economics and politics set around the 1900s. Here, a traditionally educated boy and an uns...

The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen Smith is a...

For several years before his death Professor William James cherished the purpose of stating his views on certain problems of metaphysics in a book add...

"Traveling men have a poor opinion of it. Ministers of the gospel have been known to despair of it. Socially ambitious matrons move out of it, or, if...

The Caxtons: A Family Picture is an 1849 Victorian novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that was popular in its time. The book was first serialized anonymou...

In this 1912 novel, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) draws inspiration from her own life to tell the story of a gifted woman caught between her public a...

Three boys in very different home environments start life on the same day: the pampered Pliny Hastings, the solidly brought-up Benny Phillips, and the...

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness is a 1793 book by the philosopher William Godwin, in which the author o...

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness is a 1793 book by the philosopher William Godwin, in which the author o...

She came among us without flourish of trumpets. She just slipped into her place, almost unnoticed, but once she was settled there it seemed as if we h...

"The present volume, as its title imports, relates a complicated series of conflicts of which the origin or the pretext has for the most part to be so...

The book tells the story of a young woman named Vicki, who leaves her hometown in search of a glamorous life in New York City. Once there, she meets a...

It tells the story of young lawyer Richard Darcy, who is determined to prove himself in the cutthroat world of New York City politics. Despite the obs...

It explores themes of love, marriage, and the role of women in Victorian society. The first volume of this book was published in 1889, and it quickly...

It details the United States Army's ambitious plan to establish a military base on the moon during the height of the Cold War. Written by the Army's o...

It tells the story of a young woman named Rondah, who lives in a small Midwestern town and dreams of becoming an actress. Written in 1908, the book ex...

It tells the story of Monica, a young woman who is orphaned and must make her own way in the world. Monica faces many challenges and setbacks as she s...

It tells the story of a wealthy Dutch family living in The Hague, focusing on the protagonist Constance van der Welcke and her struggles with her emot...

It follows the misadventures of the protagonist, Danny, a young man who is determined to make a name for himself in New York City. The novel is set a...