"Thérèse Raquin" tells the story of a young woman, unhappily married to her first cousin by an overbearing aunt who may seem to be well-intentioned but in...

"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" is a children's novel. The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away...

Victor Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hattie Tyng Griswold (1842 - 1909) was a...

"The Prince and the Pauper" is a novel by American author Mark Twain.Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) better known by his pen name...

"The Bet" is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov.Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian playwright and short story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest...

"Master and Man" is a short story by Leo Tolstoy (1895).Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.Translated by Louise...

"The Arabian Nights Entertainments", Selected and Edited by Andrew Lang"One Thousand and One Nights" is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in...

"The Art of War" is a treatise by the Italian Renaissance political philosopher and historian Niccolò Machiavelli.Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3...

"The Call of the Wild" is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period in which strong sled...

"The Sorrows of Young Werther" is an epistolary, loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...