Books Tagged ‘Classics’ - Page 4
Siddhartha
Subject: Fiction
Siddhartha is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book, He...
Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Fiction, Religion, Spirituality
Les Misérables
Subject: Fiction
Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. Beginning in 1815 and cul...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature, France
Crime and Punishment
Subject: Fiction
Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments duri...
Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Fiction, Crime, Russia
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
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
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