Mistress Masham’s Repose is the story of Maria, a 10-year-old orphan who lives on her huge, dilapidated ancestral estate in England with her abu ...

Moby Dick or The Whale is a adventure, a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels an ...

Nature is an essay published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that ...

Oliver Twist, also known as The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. The story is about an orphan, Oliver ...

Thoreau asserts Civil Disobedience because governments are typically more harmful than helpful, they therefore cannot be justified. Dem ...

Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that results from an aerial b ...

A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally considered one of Woolf's most acces ...

Othello is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story Un Capitano Mor ...