One of the first instances of science fiction, Wells’ classic tale published in 1986 examines various controversial philosophical issues active at the...
The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866–1946). The text of the novel is the narration of Edwa...
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish.
The novel Quo Vadis tells of a love that d...
The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen...
I am merely a business man who is interested in the Passenger Pigeon because he loves the outdoors and its wild things, and sincerely regrets the crue...
Warner said, “The New England boy used to look forward to Thanksgiving as the great event of the year.” The day after was also always a holiday. The b...
In Thirty Years A Slave Hughes provides vivid descriptions and explicit accounts of how the McGee plantation in Mississippi, and the McGee mansion in...
The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was a cruel and shocking act of violence directed against a man, a family, a nation...
Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at...
Eric John Stark, the Conan of the Spaceways, continues his adventures in this exciting story. This time he is on the shores of Venus' gaseous red seas...
As told to a group of Bedouins as they sit around the fire, this tale , set in the Arabian desert, tells of a Holy Man accused of murder, and forced t...
Some Do Not... is a tale of social cruelty among the English upper classes that pits real honour against shameless duplicity and subjects its principa...
The Valley of the Squinting Shadows was the author's first novel and proved controversial. In it, he tells a realistic tale of life in a small Irish t...
No More Parades is the second novel of Ford Madox Ford's highly regarded tetralogy about the First World War, Parade's End. It was published in 1925,...
This farce follows the journey of young Nicholas Nickleby as he navigates the treacherous world of business and society in early 19th-century England....
The play tells the story of a struggle for power and freedom between two men, the tyrannical Duke Charles and the idealistic Count von Moor.
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The poem describes the death of a hare and the speaker's reflection on the fleeting nature of life. The poem consists of six stanzas, each with four l...
The book explores the complexities of family relationships, particularly those between mothers and daughters.
The novel centers around the character...
This timeless piece of literature was first published in 1911 and continues to captivate readers with its compelling story. The book follows the journ...
"Can love truly die? Or does it linger on, even after death, to haunt the living?"
In this novel, Mary Elizabeth Braddon explores the themes of love,...
"What if the greatest treasure in the world was not a diamond or a pearl, but a human heart?"
In this novella, George MacDonald explores the themes o...
Orphaned and raised in poverty, Celestina discovers a shocking secret about her parentage that threatens to destroy her world.
Celestina is a Gothic...
In a hidden chamber of a forgotten castle, a magical spinning wheel spins tales of adventure, love, and enchantment.
The Fairy Spinning Wheel and the...
