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William Dean Howells, the realist master known as "The Dean of American Letters", produced an enormous oeuvre of works that had a lasting influence on American literature. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Howells’ complete works, with numerous illustrations,...

Although famed for his meticulously researched medieval masterpiece 'The Cloister and the Hearth', Charles Reade also penned some of the Victorian era’s most gripping sensation novels, creating controversial works that strove to end social evils and fight injustice. This comprehensive eBook presents...

More famously known by her pen name George Eliot, Mary Anne Evans was a celebrated novelist, journalist, translator, critic and leading writer of the Victorian era. Her novels of provincial life in England were celebrated for their innovative realism and psychological insight. This comprehensive eBook...

Read the Original Halloween Spooky Stories This Classic Horror Collection is the ultimate book bundle for readers of classic gothic, vampire, horror and science fiction. Each masterful novel in this collection has inspired numerous adaptations, re-imaginings, and even whole genres of fiction. This...

An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. The word epistolary is derived from Latin from the Greek word ἐπιστολή epistolē, meaning a letter . This Golden Deer...

This book contains several tables of HTML content that will make reading easier. The first table of contents lists all the titles included in this volume. This book contains the following works, classified by author: In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa The Innocence of Father Brown by Gilbert...

“The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career (it was written in ten weeks, before he turned 20), its convoluted and scandalous plot has made it one of the most important Gothic novels of its time, often imitated...

Contents: 1. The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito, by Plato 2. The Golden Sayings, by Epictetus 3. The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Richard de Bury (Born in 1281, died in 1345.) In Praise of Books. (From the "Philobiblon") Sir John Mandeville (Reputed author.) I: The Route from England to Constantinople. (From the "Travels") II: At the Court of the Great Chan. (From the "Travels") John Wyclif (Born about 1324,...

This Golden Deer Classics compilation contains the following classic French cycles: - The Human Comedy by Honoré de Balzac - The Extraordinary Voyages by Jules Verne - The Rougon-Macquart by Emile Zola

Contents: 1. Essays, Civil and Moral, and New Atlantis, by Francis Bacon 2. Areopagitica and Tractate of Education, by John Milton 3. Religio Medici, by Sir Thomas Browne Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die

Imaginary voyage is a kind of narrative in which utopian or satirical representation (or some popular science content) is put into a fictional frame of travel account. This Golden Deer Classics compilation contains the following imaginary voyage stories: - Utopia by Thomas More - Gargantua by François...

On Midsummer’s Eve, Miss Julie, a young noblewoman enters into an illicit affair with her father’s valet, Jean. Worldly and cultured, Jean by turns spurns and encourages Miss Julie’s flirtation, eventually initiating a relationship with disastrous consequences for her. August Strindberg’s...

The friend and rival of Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth was a prolific historical novelist, whose works helped changed the course of Victorian literature. This comprehensive eBook presents the largest collection of Ainsworth’s works ever compiled in a single edition, with numerous illustrations,...