The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for...
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is...
Noli Me Tángere is an 1887 novel by José Rizal during the colonization of the Philippines by the Spanish Empire, to describe perceived inequities of t...
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 Scoundr...
The Masque of Anarchy (or The Mask of Anarchy) is a British political poem written in 1819 (see 1819 in poetry) by Percy Bysshe Shelley following the...
The year is 1896. The United States is rocked by the election of an unlikely president. On election night, riots broke out in the streets of New York....
As the story begins, Romayne and his friend, Major Hynd, are in Boulogne to visit Romayne's aunt, who is dying. While there, Romayne attends a card ga...
The story is set in the Franco-Prussian War and follows a group of French residents of Rouen, recently occupied by the Prussian army. The ten travelle...
Democracy is a novel about political power, its acquisition, use and abuse. It is set at the beginning of a new administration, with the election camp...
On Generation and Corruption also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific...
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. It satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War Amer...
Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men also commonly known as the "Second Discourse", is a 1755 work by philosopher Jean-Jacques Ro...
An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia...
The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. Written before the firs...
On arriving at a rural monastery, the monk Ambrosius meets a young girl, Benedicta. She is shunned by the local community for being the daughter of th...
"The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" is a piece of short fiction by Mark Twain. It first appeared in Harper's Monthly in December 1899, and was subsequ...
It is considered one of the earliest surviving sources on British history and provides a valuable insight into the period known as the Dark Ages.
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It offers a scathing critique of the social and political conditions of America in the late 19th century. He examines issues such as poverty, corrupti...
It tells the story of a young cowboy named Milt Dale who finds himself caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict between a group of wealthy cattle...
It tells the story of an American journalist named Jerry Delaney, who is sent to the island of Malta to investigate a series of mysterious disappearan...
This is a gripping novel that delves into the themes of redemption and justice. Written by the renowned English author in 1856, this compelling work s...
On the tranquil island of Couffignal, a storm of violence erupts as a ruthless force descends upon its wealthy and elderly inhabitants. A seasoned det...
In this, readers are transported to a tumultuous era where the foundations of the banking industry are shaken to their core. This captivating narrativ...
Step into the world of charismatic preachers and religious fervor in "Elmer Gantry" by Sinclair Lewis, where the line between faith and hypocrisy blur...
