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The Man Who Knew Too Much
"The Prime Minister is my father's friend. The Foreign Minister married my sister. The Chancellor of..
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The Man Who Was Thursday
Written in 1908 and set in the Edwardian era, The Man Who Was Thursday is a classic suspense novel s..
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The Marvelous Land of Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second of L. Frank Baum's Oz books and the sequel to The Wonderful W..
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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 Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis tells the tale of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who one day wakes up t..
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The Misanthrope
Alceste, the title character of The Misanthrope, has little use for mankind, including himself, reje..
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The Miser
Harpagon, the title character of The Miser, is consumed byall aspects of his wealth. He makes money ..
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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 Necklace
Madame Mathilda Loisel, the protagonist of The Necklace, aspires to the life of an aristocrat. Born ..
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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 Odyssey of Homer
The Odyssey by Homer is an epic poem composed in part as sequel to The Iliad that tells the story of..
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The Oldest Code of Laws in the World
The Code of Hammurabi is a codification of the laws enacted by Hammurabi, the king of Babylonia and..
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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 People of the Black Circle
The People of the Black Circle is the eleventh of the Conan stories published by Weird Tales in thre..
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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 Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle
Poetics and Rhetoric together with Ethics and Politics constitute the pillars of Aristotle’s Practic..
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The Politics of Aristotle
Aristotle’s Ethics describes the means to the happy life of virtue intended by nature. In Politics h..
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The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli broke the mold when he wrote The Prince, an ostensibly traditional work in the s..
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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 Problems of Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell is a concise and accessible guide to the basic concep..
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The Prophet
The Prophet is a highly original book of 26 fables written in prose poetry by Lebanese-American auth..
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The Republic of Plato
The Republic of Plato is the greatest and best known of Plato’s works and possibly the most influent..
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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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Twelve Years A Slave
Twelve Years a Slave is a memoir by Solomon Northup, a black man who was born free in New York. The ..
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The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois is book everyone in America should read, a fundamental w..
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Up from Slavery
In his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery, Booker T. Washington chronicles his personal experiences..
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is the first and most popular of three memoirs Frederick..
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was one of the first books in the slave narrative genre that s..
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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave reminds us that slavery at one time existed throu..
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
As owner and reporter for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight Ida B. Wells investigated numerous a..
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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 Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638 - 1870
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade is a fundamental work of African-American history that is..
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