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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
"Orphaned Jane Eyre grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, where she endures loneliness and cru ...
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Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851. |
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London, Jack, 1876-1916
"Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him internat ...
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 |
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 |
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
"An ardent young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband--these are the central c ...
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Orwell, George, 1903-1950 |
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Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900. |
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Golding, William, 1911-1993. |
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Homer
"When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hail ...
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally re ...
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Malory, Thomas
"Although written by a Norman scholar in 1175, these words remain just as valid today, for the stori ...
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Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
"From "A Scandal in Bohemia," in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captiva ...
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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947.
"Willa Cather's My Antonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentiet ...
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 1821-1881. |
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Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. |
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Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867. |
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