Books Tagged ‘Classics’
Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subject: Philosophy
The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson chronicles the life’s work of a true “American Scholar.”...
Tags: Classics, Poetry, Philosophy, Nonfiction
Poirot Investigates
Subject: Mystery
Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by English author Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in March 1924. In the eleven stories, ...
Tags: Classics, Mystery, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime, Detective
Antiquities of the Jews
Subject: Historical
Antiquities of the Jews (Latin: Antiquitates Iudaicae; Greek: Ἰουδαϊκὴ ἀρχαιολογία, Ioudaikē archaiologia) is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by historian ...
Tags: Classics, Nonfiction, History, Religion, Reference, Theology, Christian
Don Juan (poem)
Subject: Poetry
In English literature, Don Juan (1819–1824), by Lord Byron, is a satirical, epic poem that portrays Don Juan not as a womaniser, but as a man easily seduced by women. Lord Byron...
Tags: Classics, Poetry, Fiction, Literature, Romanticism, Medievalism
De Profundis (From the Depths)
Subject: Nonfiction
De Profundis (Latin: “from the depths”) is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to “Bosie” (Lord Alfred Douglas). In ...
Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Biography, Memoir, LGBT
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Subject: Science Fiction
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel was origin...
Tags: Classics, Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, France, Cultural
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Subject: Fiction
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual aw...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Novels, Ireland, School, 20th Century
Around the World in Eighty Days
Subject: Fiction
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In t...
Tags: Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Literature, Science Fiction, Travel, Cultural
Notes from Underground
Subject: Fiction
Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each cen...
Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Fiction, Novels, Literature, Russia, Psychology
