Victorian Era
The Victorian Era runs parallel to the reign of Britain's Queen Victoria: 1837 - 1901.
The Confessions of Nat Turner
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, TO WIT: Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini, e..
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the story of a child born in Baltimore in 1860 who has the ap..
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The English Constitution
The United Kingdom does not have a single document that sets forth the structure and governance of t..
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The Gambler
Dostoevsky knew his subject all too well when he wrote The Gambler, as he had a serious addiction to..
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The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
One gilds things to make them look better than they really are. Mark Twain, the same writer who turn..
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third and best known of four full-length novels featuring world..
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The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man was the fifth novel by H. G. Wells and the third of his remarkable series of five ..
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The Masque of the Red Death
First published in 1842, The Mask of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe is an allegorical short story ..
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Murders in the Rue Morgue is considered the first detective story. Published in Graham’s Magazin..
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The Nose
In 1722 Peter the Great introduced a system of positions and ranks for the military, the government,..
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The Overcoat
"We all come out from Gogol's ‘The Overcoat’". This statement by Fyodor Dostoyevsky expresses the gr..
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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper was Mark Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction, published in Canada,..
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The Return of the Native
The Return of the Native was Thomas Hardy’s sixth novel. It was serialized in Belgravia magazi..
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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is considered his finest novel. Set in Puritan Boston from..
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The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four is the second of four full-length novels featuring the brilliant Sherlock Holme..
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
It’s rare that a book’s title becomes a staple of popular usage in the way that the phrase “Jekyll a..
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The Subjection of Women
In his essay “On the Subjection of Women” John Stuart Mill wrote at length about the moral, legal an..
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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers, one of the most popular historical romances ever written, recounts the adventu..
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The Turn of the Screw
Ever since The Turn of the Screw first appeared in early 1898 in 12 installments of Collier’s Weekly..
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The Valley of Fear
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final novel featuring Sherlock Holmes. The story op..
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The Woman in White
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is widely considered the first in the genre of “sensation” nove..
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) is a comic novel written by English author Jerome K...
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
“God is Dead”. “The Superman”. The “will to power”. We’ve all heard the phrases, which a..
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Treasure Island
Treasure Island is the original and ultimate adventure story about pirates and buried treasure. It w..
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows began as a series of bedtime stories author Kenneth Grahame invented for his..
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The image is popular and general: A young man sits under an apple tree. An apple falls, strikes him ..
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A Doll's House
A Doll’s House aroused a great deal of controversy when it premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenha..
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An Enemy of the People
The term “enemy of the people” has entered our modern lexicon, thanks to the unprecedented attacks o..
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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A Shropshire Lad
The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is ..
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Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
During the economic and social upheaval of the 1870’s and 1880’s the notion of a better social order..
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Robert Frost: Early Poems
Robert Frost: Early Poems combines the first two of Robert Frost’s published volumes. A Boy’s Will i..
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A Boy's Will
A Boy’s Will is the first book of poems by Frost, published in 1913 when he was in his late thirties..
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North of Boston
North of Boston was Frost’s second book, a collection of seventeen poems published in 1914. It ..
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It con..
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The Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Hindu text considered by many as the first and perhaps still the best w..
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The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic l..
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds,also known as Bird Parliament or Speech of the Birds, is a masterpiece o..
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Meditations on First Philosophy
The Meditations on First Philosophy, which carries the subtitle “In which the existence of God and t..
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title of a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems ..
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