Books Tagged ‘Literature’
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
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
Subject: Fiction
The first American novel by a writer of Japanese ancestry, “The American Diary of a Japanese Girl” is a landmark of modern American fiction and Japanese-American tra...
Tags: Fiction, Literature, Cultural, Japanese
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
Persuasion(novel)
Subject: Fiction
Persuasion is the last novel completed by Jane Austen. It was published along with Northanger Abbey at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The novel was published on De...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature, Romance, British
Heart of Darkness
Subject: Fiction
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad. It tells the story of Charles Marlow, a sailor who takes on an assignment from a Belgian trading ...
Tags: Adventure, Academic, Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature, School, Africa
The Great Gatsby
Subject: Fiction
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations...
Tags: Novels, Literature, Romance, Read For School, High School
Hard Times
Subject: Fiction
Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the soc...
Tags: Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
Gulliver’s Travels
Subject: Fiction
Gulliver’s Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by...
Tags: Adventure, Fantasy, Fiction, Novels, Literature
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
Subject: Fiction
“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...
Tags: Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, France