A bachelor' dream in a thrilling love story. Her books were first published anonymously, and later as by "Mrs. Hungerford". In the United States, her books were...

Benjamin Button was born on the day of the end of the First World War, is a baby in swaddling clothes but has the health of a ninety year old: arthritis, cataract, deafness. He...

The story traces the "adventures" of Ah Q, a man from the rural peasant class with little education and no definite occupation. Ah Q is famous for "spiritual...

The narrator, a Bostonian, returns after a brief visit a few summers prior, to the small coastal town of Dunnet, Maine, in order to finish writing her book. Upon arriving she...

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, is a book authored by Gustave Le Bon that was first published in 1895.In the book, Le Bon claims that there are several characteristics of...

To find the place of these desires, their utterance, their control, their personal import, their social import, is a tremendous problem to every youth and girl, man and woman.

Sybil is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of...

The story is recalled in a first-person perspective by the geologist William Dyer, a professor at Arkham's Miskatonic University, in the hope to prevent an important and much...

Aubrey, a young Englishman, meets Lord Ruthven, a man of mysterious origins who has entered London society. Aubrey accompanies Ruthven to Rome, but leaves him after Ruthven...

Emma Marshall (1830-1899) was an English children's author who wrote more than 200 novels. All his stories have a high moral and religious tone. His method was to choose a...