Subject for September, 2020
The Brothers Karamazov
Subject: Fiction
The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brat’ya Karamazovy, pronounced [ˈbratʲjə kərɐˈmazəvɨ]), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel...
Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Fiction, Russia
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
Subject: Fiction
The Awakening, novel by Kate Chopin, published in 1899. Originally titled A Solitary Soul, the novel depicts a young mother’s struggle to achieve sexual and personal emancipatio...
Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Feminism, Fiction
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Subject: Historical
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass during his time in Lynn, Mas...
Tags: Classics, Historical, Biography, Memoir
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Subject: Philosophy
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (widely abbreviated and cited as TLP) (Latin for Logical Philosophical Treatise or Treatise on Logic and Philosophy) is the only book-length p...
Tags: Philosophy, Nonfiction, Logic, Humanities, Theory
A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Subject: Fiction
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & H...
Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Fiction
Great Expectations
Subject: Fiction
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel, which depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip (the book is a bildungs...
Tags: Classics, Historical, Literature, School
The Prophet
Subject: Fiction
The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf...
Tags: Poetry, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Subject: Fiction
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel had a profound effect on attitu...
Tags: American, Classics, Fiction, Historical
The Secret Garden
Subject: Fiction
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialization in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in ...
Tags: Classics, Childrens, Young Adult, Historical