Romantic Era
The Romantic Era is considered by scholars to have been between 1798 - 1870. It overlaps to some extent with the Victorian Era, Realism, Naturalism, Transcendentalism, and Existentialism.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, also known as Alice in Wonderland, written in 1865 by Lewis C..
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Andersen’s Fairy Tales is a collection of eighteen stories that includes such classics as "The Littl..
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
In an October 1939 radio broadcast Winston Churchill described his difficulty in understanding the a..
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Billy Budd, Sailor
In 1886, after writing poetry exclusively for 30 years, Herman Melville began work on a story about ..
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Carmilla
The Gothic novella Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu is one of the earliest works of vampire fiction a..
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account by Thomas de Quincey of his add..
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Democracy in America
In 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont were sent by the French government to the Unit..
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Emma
Published in three volumes in 1815, Emma was the second to last of Jane Austen’s novels, and treats ..
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Faust
The theme of making a deal with the devil is one of the most enduring in all art forms. Most treatme..
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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the wife of Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, is the author of the t..
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
Grimm’s Fairy Tales is a collection of German fairy tales first published by brothers Jacob and Wilh..
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Bronte and published in 1847 under the pen name “Currer Bell”. It..
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Leaves of Grass
We forget how big America must have seemed to both Americans and Europeans in the nineteenth century..
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Mansfield Park
Fanny Price is the eldest daughter in a family of nine children struggling to get by on a naval offi..
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Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an epic sea adventure told by Ishmael, the sole survivor of the Pequod, ..
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Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey is one of the early novels of Jane Austen, the first to be submitted for publicatio..
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On the Pleasure of Hating
"On the Pleasure of Hating" is an essay by William Hazlitt, published in 1826. The essay discusses t..
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Persuasion
Jane Austen completed her last novel, Persuasion, in 1816, the year before her death in 1817 at the ..
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice, a novel of manners, was first published in 1813 and remains one of the best lov..
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen published Sense and Sensibility under the pseudonym, “A Lady” in 1811. It is an epistola..
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of 45 poems by English poet William Blake. ..
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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 Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hunchbacks. We stare. We cringe. We shudder. We think: the poor guy; glad that’s not me. Whether..
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Set in the autumn of 1790 in the secluded glen of Sleepy Hollow in the countryside near Tarrytown, N..
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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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