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Emma Woodhouse Emma Woodhouse is a wealthy, headstrong, and charming young woman living in early 19th-century England. Confident in her matchmaking...

Frederick the Great and Bismarck Sketches of Frederic the Great and Otto Von Bismarck, the two great architects of the Prussian empire. Also includ...

The Posthumous Papers Originally entitled The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, the story follows the adventures and misadventures of Samuel ...

A Romance A gothic novel centered around a mysterious, decaying mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, and the family that inhabits it. The story follows...

Southern California Set shortly after the Mexican–American War, the book explores the life of a Scottish–Native American orphan girl named Ramona. ...

A Tragedie The story revolves around the Moorish general Othello, his wife Desdemona, and his ensign Iago. Set in Venice, the story follows Othello...

A Comedy Set in the Italian town of Messina, the story revolves around two pairs of lovers: Claudio and Hero, and Benedick and Beatrice. Claudio, a...

A Comedy A comedic play that revolves around the courtship and marriage of two sisters, Katherine and Bianca. Baptista Minola, their father, declar...

TragedieThe story follows the ambitious Scottish general Macbeth as he is tempted by the prophecies of three witches and driven to commit murder in...

Tragedie One of William Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, blending elements of romance, tragedy, and comedy. The story revolves around King Cymbeli...

A Shakespearean Tragedy The story follows the aging King Lear of Britain, who decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters based on thei...

A Shakespearean Comedy The story begins with a shipwreck that separates Viola, a young woman, from her twin brother, Sebastian. Viola disguises her...

A Shakespearean Comedy Set in the city of Vienna, where Duke Vincentio decides to temporarily leave his duties and appoints Angelo to rule in his a...

Lord Nelson A detailed account of Horatio Nelson’s naval career and personal life. The book explores Nelson’s rise through the ranks of the Royal N...

A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings Mary Johnston’s history of the colonial beginnings of the southern United States. The book follows the l...

A Tale of Norway A collection of stories part of Marineau’s “Playfellow” series written for children. The book is set in Norway along the fjords in...

Traces of Travel Brought Home The book recounts Kinglake's journey through the Middle East, particularly focusing on his travels in the Levant (Eas...

The Meatpacking Industry The story revolves around the life of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who comes to America with his family in search...

A Vacation Voyage Richard Henry Dana, Jr.’s travel narrative of his trip to Cuba in 1859. While the United States was contemplating the annexation ...

The Father Brown Series A collection of short stories featuring the fictional detective-priest, Father Brown. Father Brown is a clever and unassumi...

The Father Brown Series Father Brown finds himself embroiled in a mysterious case when a famous atheist, Professor Adam, invites him to witness a m...

The Father Brown Series A collection of detective short stories featuring Father Brown, a Catholic priest with a keen intellect and a deep understa...

A Shakespearean Comedy The story follows Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke, who flees to the Forest of Arden with her cousin Celia. In the ...

A Shakespearean Comedy Helena is hopelessly in love with Bertram, a nobleman. Despite her low social status, Helena cures the King of France, earni...

The Raven A narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The poem tells the story of a distraught lover who is paid a mysterious visit by a t...

Or, Life Among the Lowly The classic anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel had a profound effect on the attitudes of the public to...

Capitalism and Socialism Belloc provides a broad overview of the economic history of Europe starting with the ancient pagan states through medieval...

A Dickens Classic Set in England during the middle of the 19th century, the story follows Philip Pirrip, “Pip” for short, a young orphan. Surroundi...

The Life of an English Gentleman Rudolf V of Ruritania is about to be crowned king when he is drugged on the eve of his coronation and is unable to...

For These Times The shortest of Dicken’s novels, Hard Times surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. “M...

Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack Thomas Paine was a very strong supporter of the French Revolution that began in 1789; he visited France the following ...

‘Are we or they Lords of the World?’ One of the earliest works of fiction to detail a conflict between mankind and an extra-terrestrial race, the s...

A Tale Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of “pilgrims of an exacting belief.” When the ship starts rapidly ...

The Great Gatsby It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Dais...

Records of Expedition The first hand account of Sir Walter Raleigh during his first and second voyages to Guiana. Raleigh and his men were in searc...