One of Zola's Three Cities Trilogy, Lourdes is a story surrounding the famous Catholic healing sh...

'So full was I of slumber at the moment in which I had abandoned the true way . . . 'O Muses, O h...

Jacobsen's literary debut. Like the single volume of short stories Jacobsen published in 1882, th...

Dame History is so austere a lady that if one has been so ill-advised as to take a liberty with h...

Rebecca West was a pseudonym for Cicily Isabel Fairfield, a woman who had love affairs with Charl...

The world has felt upon its hot lips the perfumed kisses of the beautiful heroine of Three Weeks....

The people of the small towns and villages at the foot of the mountains were losing their past wh...

Saxo Grammaticus was a Danish historian, theologian and author, thought to have been a clerk or s...

Clara Reeve (1729-1807), novelist, was the author of several novels, of which only one is remembe...

Wanting to learn if he can communicate with deceased loved ones, adventurer and trader Allan Quar...

Twain, aware of his reputation as a comic, asked that each installment appear anonymously so that...

A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in pr...