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Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
by Guy De Maupassant
Goodreads Rating: 4.19
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. ” These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, i...
Oct 06, 2020 Tags: Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, France
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
Goodreads Rating: 3.97
On Liberty is a philosophical essay by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, it applies Mill’s ethical system of utilitarianism to society and state. Mill suggests sta...
Oct 06, 2020 Tags: Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction, History, Economics
The Cask of Amontillado
by Edgar Allan Poe
Goodreads Rating: 4.09
“The Cask of Amontillado” (sometimes spelled “The Casque of Amontillado”) is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city ...
Oct 05, 2020 Tags: Horror, Gothic, Short Stories, Academic, Fiction
The Poetics of Aristotle
by Aristotle
Goodreads Rating: 3.83
Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In this text Aristotle offers an...
Oct 05, 2020 Tags: Poetry, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Art, Criticism
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
Goodreads Rating: 3.40
Ethan Frome is a 1911 book by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the fictitious town of Starkfield, Massachusetts. In one of American fiction’s finest and most in...
Oct 04, 2020 Tags: Academic, Historical, Literature, Romance
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
Goodreads Rating: 3.87
The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the ̶...
Oct 01, 2020 Tags: Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
Goodreads Rating: 3.73
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled The Sketch ...
Sep 20, 2020 Tags: Horror, Gothic, Short Stories, Fantasy, Fiction
Japanese Girls and Women
by Alice Mabel Bacon
Goodreads Rating: 3.90
Bacon evocatively depicts Japanese women unsettled by their modern education, yet saddled with traditional cultural expectations. With its insight into Japan’s class syste...
Sep 20, 2020 Tags: Nonfiction, History, Japan
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
Goodreads Rating: 3.89
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the c...
Sep 20, 2020 Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Time Travel