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A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to ...
May 08, 2020 Tags: England, Humor, Short Stories, Philosophy, Politics
The Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
“The Masque of the Red Death”, originally published as “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy”, is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first...
Apr 09, 2020 Tags: American, Allan Poe, Horror, Gothic, Short Stories
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyl...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: England, Horror, Mystery, Gothic, Science Fiction
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition
by Edgar Allan Poe
Goodreads Rating: 4.50
Edgar Allan Poe was a master of tales of the mysterious and macabre. From the eerie incantations of “The Raven” to the persistent fright of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” his stories an...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: Classics, Horror, Poetry, Short Stories, Fiction
A Journal of the Plague Year
by Daniel Defoe
Goodreads Rating: 3.57
A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. This novel is an account of one man’s experiences of the year 1665, in which the G...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: England, Daniel Defoe, Classics, Autobiography, Health
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London, it ...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: Classics, Oscar Wilde, Humor, Drama, Fiction, Plays
Ion: The Dialogues of Plato
by [Greek]Plato
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
In Plato’s Ion (/ˈaɪɒn/; Greek: Ἴων) Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsod...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: Greek, Plato, Philosophy
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Goodreads Rating: 4.02
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis ...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: Classics, United Kingdom, Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult
A Doll’s House
by [Norway]Henrik Ibsen
Goodreads Rating: 3.73
A Doll’s House is a three-act play written by Norway’s Henrik Ibsen. It premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been publi...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: Norway, Classics, Drama, Academic, Theatre, Feminism, Fiction
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Goodreads Rating: 4.26
Pride and Prejudice is a romantic novel of manners written by Jane Austen in 1813. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of th...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature, Romance