Books Tagged ‘Classics’ - Page 6
The Prince
Subject: Philosophy
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe [il ˈprintʃipe], Latin: De Principatibus) is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavell...
Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Politics, Nonfiction
War and Peace
Subject: Fiction
In Russia’s struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `...
Tags: Classics, Novels, Historical, Literature, Russia, War
Walden
Subject: Essay
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compell...
Tags: Classics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Nature, Autobiography, Biography, Essays
Treasure Island
Subject: Fiction
Treasure Island (originally The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys) is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of “buccaneers and buried gol...
Tags: Classics, Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Literature
The Yellow Wallpaper
Subject: Fiction
Based on the author’s own experiences, ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ is the chilling tale of a woman driven to the brink of insanity by the ‘rest cure’ prescribed after the...
Tags: Classics, Horror, Gothic, Short Stories, Mental Health
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Subject: Fantasy
The Grimm brothers were early 19th-century writers best known for their fairy tales coming from Scandinavian, Icelandic and Germanic origins. By 1807 there was a growing interes...
Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Childrens, Fiction, Literature, Fairy Tales
A Tale of Two Cities
Subject: Fiction
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two ver...
Tags: Classics, Academic, Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Subject: Fiction
“It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.” So ...
Tags: American, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Historical
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Subject: Mystery
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity fo...
Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime, Detective
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition
Subject: Fiction
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...
Tags: Classics, Horror, Poetry, Short Stories, Fiction