Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe is the third novel by Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot). It was published in 1861. An outwardly simple tale of a linen...
The House of the Dead is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal Vremya by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays t...
Erema; or, my father's sin is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1877. The novel is narrated by a teenage girl called Erema whose fa...
Kate Cephane, now living in self-imposed exile in France, left her three-year-old daughter Anne behind when she fled her impossibly unhappy marriage f...
A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a vivid and charming story by Harriet Parr, who wrote under the...
The basic story is young woman going to the city for the first time, but there's clearly something a bit odd about this young woman because of how she...
Witness the fall of Napoleon from the eyes of one of his closest confidants.
The third volume of François-René de Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond...
Tobias is the 17th book of the Bible and one of the historical books in the Old Testament. In the text, Raphael, after revealing his angelic nature, c...
In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradise into the...
"The Book of Obadiah is found in both the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, where it is the shortest book, only one chapter l...
The Book of Haggai is a book of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and of the Old Testament, written by the prophet Haggai. It was written in 520 BC some 18 ye...
Zechariah’s ministry took place during the reign of Darius the Great (Zechariah 1:1), and was contemporary with Haggai in a post-exilic world after th...
Unterhaltungen deutscher Ausgewanderten is a collection of stories by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published in 1795. The novel's frame story, inspired...
„Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen“ ist ein satirisches Versepos von Heinrich Heine, das er während einer Reise durch Deutschland im Winter 1843/44 schri...
In dieser Schrift tröstet Lucius Annaeus Seneca, der Jüngere, seine Mutter Helvia über seine Verbannung nach Korsika. Seneca, ein römischer Philosoph...
The Book of Chronicles, a part of the Hebrew Bible, is a historical narrative focusing on the reigns of David and Solomon, detailing the history of th...
The Book of Nehemiah chronicles the events surrounding the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls after the Jewish people returned from exile in Babylon. It...
Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus" picks up the story of Oedipus after his tragic fall from grace. Blinded and banished from Thebes, he wanders the land,...
The Book of Ezra, as interpreted through Young's Literal Translation (YLT), details the return of Israelites from Babylonian exile. It follows two dis...
This book recounts the story of Siyyid ‘Alí-Muhammad-i-Shírází, known as the Báb, a 19th-century Iranian religious leader who claimed to be a herald o...
This book documents the author's pilgrimage to Akko in 1905, a historical prison-city in the Ottoman Empire and the final place of exile for Baháʼu'll...
The Book of Daniel is a significant text within the Hebrew Bible, composed partly in Hebrew and partly in Aramaic. Its central figure, Daniel, is depi...
This book, "Promulgation of Universal Peace," contains a collection of talks and discourses delivered by 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the son of Baháʼu'lláh, during...
In Victorian England, Henry Dunbar returns from a 30-year exile in India, haunted by his past as a forger. He faces the moral and social consequences...
