Books on Topic: 'Violence'

A masterly mix of romance, drama, mystery, suspense, love and jealousy, The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux will haunt you long after you've tur...

Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatizes the damaging physical and psychological...

Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by scholars to have played a signi...

This western, published around 1899, is a dime novel that has it all: roguish gun men, hostile Indians, chilvarous gentlemen to protect the hapless fe...

Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written between 1588 and 1593, probably in collaboration with George Peele....

A Child of the Jago is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison.

A mediocre book of mediocre stories written to resemble fairy tales. Suffers from historical defects such as misogyny, racism, violence, and religion.

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke tells the story of Bill, a member of a larrikin push (or gang) in Melbourne's Little Lon red-light district, who enco...

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...

John Webster's The White Devil (1612) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy, replete with adultery, murder, ghosts, and violence. The Duke of Brachiano and Vi...

Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Congregation of the Redeemer, better known as the Redemptorists, who is honored as a saint by the Cat...

St. Clair's defeat, also known as the Battle of the Wabash, the Battle of Wabash River or the Battle of a Thousand Slain, was a battle fought on 4 Nov...

The Red Record, in 1895, a 100-page pamphlet with more detail, describing lynching in the United States since the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. I...

En medio del rugir de los fusiles y el clamor de la libertad, surge una historia épica que te atrapará desde la primera página. "Los de Abajo" de Mari...

In the darkness of a coal mine, a spark of hope ignites a firestorm of revolution. Germinal is a novel by Émile Zola that tells the story of a group...

In the bustling port city of Marseille, love and betrayal, crime and corruption, poverty and wealth collide in a deadly web of intrigue. The Mysterie...

A haunting and lyrical exploration of love, loss, and the human condition. In Maud, and Other Poems, Alfred, Lord Tennyson explores the themes of lov...

What if there was a way to tap into the infinite power of compassion to heal yourself and the world around you? Compassion is a powerful and transfor...

In the tumultuous years of World War I, a group of young boys at Merivale School, nestled amidst the rolling hills of England, finds their lives inext...

In a world veiled by the ordinary, where the supernatural quietly weaves its threads into the fabric of reality, Father Benson takes us on a journey t...

In John Stevens Cabot Abbott's "Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers," you'll meet the infamous Captain William Kidd, sail alongside the...

Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in The Red B...

This is volume 1 of 3. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a fo...

Les Chants de Maldoror is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte de Lautrea...