Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787), sometimes called Alphonsus Maria Liguori or Saint Alphonsus Liguori, was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician,...
Mormonism is the predominant religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New York in the 1820s and 30s....
"A Study in Scarlet" is an 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr....
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer, politician, and a leading figure in the...
"What Christmas is as we Grow Older" is a Christmas novella by Charles Dickens.Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and...
"Seven Against Thebes" is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC.Aeschylus (525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek...
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...
"Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England" is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet,...
"Madame Bovary" is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and...
John Locke (1632–1704) is among the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by...