First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe is a book that marks the beginning of realistic fiction writing in English. Its simple, linear narrative styl...
Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. The novel was adapted into...
Prelude is a short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published by the Hogarth Press in July 1918, after Virginia Woolf encouraged her to fini...
North of Boston is a collection of seventeen poems by Robert Frost, first published in 1914 by David Nutt. Most of the poems resemble short dramas or...
"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts i...
The Half-Breed; A Tale of the Western Frontier is a fictional story written by Walt Whitman in 1845, which was originally published under the name of...
Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Michael Angelo...
The narrator, an English teacher of languages living in Geneva, is narrating the personal record of Kyrilo Sidorovitch Razumov. Razumov is a student i...
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within t...
The Colonel's Dream is a novel written by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt. The novel is published by Doubleday, Page, & Co. in 1905. T...
Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, wide...
Zastrozzi: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Percy Bysshe Shelley first published in 1810 in London by George Wilkie and John Robinson anonymously, with...
Goblin Market and Other Poems is Christina Rossetti's first volume of poetry, published by Macmillan in 1862. It contains her famous poem "Goblin Mark...
It is a comprehensive exploration of the effect of radiation on living organisms, particularly in relation to the metabolic processes that sustain lif...
It focuses on Ball's research on the chemical composition of the Ava root, which is used in traditional medicine in Fiji.
In the book, Ball describes...
It follows the story of a young man named Pringle who moves to the isolated and harsh land of Manitoba to escape the confines of his former life. Thro...
Deep within the remote and desolate moors, lies a house shrouded in enigmatic darkness, where reality and the supernatural intertwine in a relentless...
In the quiet corners of literary history, nestled amid the forgotten pages, lies a masterpiece waiting to be rediscovered: "The Private Papers of Henr...
In these stories, Anton Chekhov explores the human condition with his trademark wit and compassion, offering a glimpse into the lives of ordinary peop...
These poems are like a siren song, calling us to the edge of the abyss.
The Early Poems of Hart Crane is a collection of Crane's earliest work, writt...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 different recordings of Drinking Alone by Moonlight by Li Bai in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. This was the weekly...
The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of th...
