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Honoré de Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850, was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.

Les Celibataires, the longest number of the original Comedie Humaine under a single title, next to Illusions perdues, is not, like that book, connected by any unity of story. Indeed, the general bond of union is pretty weak; and though it is quite true that bachelors and old maids are the heroes and...

THERE was nothing to distinguish the departure of the Murmania from that of any other big liner leaving New York in October for Liverpool or Southampton. At the crowded gangways there was the usual rain of ultimate kisses, from the quayside the usual gale of speeding handkerchiefs. Ladies in blanket-coats...

Helen Beatrix Potter, an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman, Mr Bennet, living in Longbourn. Set...

Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian–Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters an wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the first sentence, she introduces the title character...

The famous and most read works of Charles Dickens, David Hume, Mark Twain, Henrik Ibsen, Jonathan Swift, James Joyce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Ambrose Bierce, H. C. Andersen, Leo Tolstoy, L. M. Montgomery, Plato, Benjamin Franklin, Lew Wallace, Lesslie Hall, Friedrich Wilhelm...

John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days. The...

A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas or A Christmas Carol, novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost...

Tales from the German contens Texts from the most celebrated authors of this country in history: LIBUSSA (J. H. MUSÆUS), THE CRIMINAL FROM LOST HONOUR (FRIEDRICH SCHILLER), THE COLD HEART (WILHELM HAUFF), THE WONDERS IN THE SPESSART (KARL IMMERMANN), NOSE, THE DWARF (W. HAUFF), AXEL (C. F. VAN DER...

Notwithstanding the popularity which several of Hoffmann's tales have obtained in many different countries, we are not aware of any complete or accurate translation of his works. In England they have become known in a very partial form, chiefly by the appearance of a few isolated tales in association...

The ever-fluctuating vicissitudes of human life had once more scattered our little group of friends asunder. Sylvester had gone back to his country home; Ottmar had travelled away on business, and so had Cyprian; Vincent was still in the town, but (after his accustomed fashion) he had disappeared...

Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and astronomer, composing...

Brutus Brutus and Antony At the Mermaid Tavern Charlotte Corday A Man Child is Born Richard Booth to His Son, Junius Booth A Man Child is Born Squire Bowling Green Lincoln Speaking in Congress John Wilkes Booth at the Farm Junius Brutus Booth A Certain Poet on the Debates The Decision Lincoln Makes...