An Ideal Husband is an 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and...
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain. Its central intrigue revolves around two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 bla...
Brave New World is a dystopian futuristic World State. Intelligence based class that are genetically modified citizens. The novel anticipates huge sci...
A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why London renounced capita...
An den Ufern der Havel lebte, um die Mitte des sechzehnten Jahrhunderts, ein Roßhändler, namens Michael Kohlhaas, Sohn eines Schulmeisters, einer der...
'Colonel's Dream' by Charles Waddell Chesnutt delves into the harsh realities of Reconstruction in the post-Civil War South. It paints a bleak picture...
This book presents a conspiracy theory about the eligibility of Chester A. Arthur to hold the office of Vice President and later President of the Unit...
Alfred Owen Crozier's 'U.S. Money vs. Corporation Currency' is a critical examination of the Aldrich Plan, a proposed central banking system for the U...
Sir Anthony Weldon's 'Court and Character of King James' offers a scathing and intimate look at the inner workings of the English royal court during t...
El Filibusterismo, a sequel to Noli Me Tangere, plunges readers into the tumultuous Philippines under Spanish rule. The novel paints a stark picture o...
“Frailocracia Filipina” is a critical examination of the Spanish colonial regime in the Philippines, focusing on the excessive power and influence hel...
This captivating work of fiction presents an intriguing array of cases encountered by an unnamed "City Detective." With a wry sense of humor, the dete...
Set in the early 19th century in the town of Alcira, "Entre naranjos" tells the story of Rafael, a young landowner and politician, and Leonora, a reno...
Juvenal was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second centuries CE, and his surviving works are a series of sixteen satires, targeting va...
'The Fortune of the Rougon' is a sprawling tale of a family in 19th-century Provence during the Second French Empire. The novel explores the intertwi...
