Author: Herman Melville, a 19th-century American novelist of the American Renaissance period This unique novel written in mid-nineteenth century America has since captured the world’s imagination with its fascinating descriptions…
Author: Gustave Flaubert, a 19th-century French novelist. Flaubert’s debut novel and masterpiece, this mid-nineteenth century French fiction is a scandalous account of a provincial doctor’s wife engaging in adulterous affairs.…
Author: William Golding, a 20th-century British novelist, playwright, and poet Golding takes the format of popular island adventures, particularly that of Ballantyne’s Victorian novel Coral Island, and paints a stark…
Author: Joseph Conrad, a late 19th century & early 20th century Polish-British writer An extraordinary story of a man’s lifelong quest for redemption and restoration of his honor, the narrative…
Author: William Shakespeare, a 16th century English playwright, poet and actor Lear, king of Britain, distributes his kingdom among his daughters Goneril, Regan, and Cordelia. When he asks his daughters…
Author: Charlotte Brontë, a nineteenth-century English novelist and poet. Jane Eyre is both the first-person narrator and the spirited protagonist of this nineteenth-century iconic novel. It is the story of…
Author: Maya Angelou, a twentieth-century American writer, poet, and civil rights activist. The first of Maya Angelou’s seven-part autobiography, this coming-of-age story of literary brilliance describes Maya dealing with rape…
Author: E.M. Forster, a British writer of the twentieth century. This is a tale of three families in the early twentieth century, — the Schlegels of German extraction, the English…
Author: Ray Bradbury, a 20th-century American author, and screenwriter. The story envisions an apocalyptic future, a favorite theme with Bradbury, where books are burnt to obliterate knowledge, literature, and philosophy,…
Author: Jane Austen, an English novelist of the late eighteenth century. The protagonist of this delightful early-nineteenth-century English novel from the queen of comedy of manners is the spoiled but…