Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup as told to...

John Locke, (born August 29, 1632, Wrington, Somerset, Englanddied October 28, 1704, High Laver, ...

Dracula comprises journal entries, letters, and telegrams written by the main characters. It begi...

I must frankly own, that if I had known, beforehand, that this book would have cost me the labour...

This volume contains a collection of short stories by numerous notable French authors, including ...

Dante's Divine Comedy, a landmark in Italian literature and among the greatest works of all medie...

Edmund Spenser, (born 1552 53, London, Englanddied January 13, 1599, London), English poet whose ...

Sir John Mandeville, (flourished 14th century), purported author of a collection of travelers' ta...

Arthur Conan Doyle, in full Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, (born May 22, 1859, Edinburgh, Scotl...

Nathaniel Hawthorne, (born July 4, 1804, Salem, Mass., U.S.died May 19, 1864, Plymouth, N.H.), Am...

Playwright, poet. Christopher Marlowe was a poet and playwright at the forefront of the 16th-cent...