In “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” the life story of one of the most important figures in American history is recounted. Franklin ...

The 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant is widely considered as one the most important figures in modern philosophy. His fundamental arguments ...

The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility ...

Published in 1890 under the pseudonym Nellie Bly, “Around the World in Seventy-Two Days” is the true account by journalist Elizabeth Jane ...

Historically recognized as the man who wrote the dictionary, Dr. Johnson amplified his literary fame with the 1759 publication of “The History of ...

First published in 1914, James Joyce’s “Dubliners” is a collection of fifteen short stories which naturalistically depict the middle ...

In response to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s call for the United States to have its own unique poetic voice, Walt Whitman rose to the challenge to create ...

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos produced “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”, or “Dangerous Liaisons”, in an effort to “write a work which ...

First published posthumously in 1817, “Northanger Abbey” was actually the first finished novel that Jane Austen wrote. It is the story of ...

Originally published in 1859, “Adam Bede” is the first novel by George Eliot, which was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. Eliot was one of the ...