Books Tagged ‘Literature’ - Page 3
Don Quixote
Subject: Fiction
Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. It was published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615. A founding work of Western literature, it is often labeled “the fir...
Tags: Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Literature, Spanish
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
Dubliners
Subject: Fiction
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They comprise a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dubli...
Tags: Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, Ireland
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
Ulysses
Subject: Fiction
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then pu...
Tags: Novels, Literature, Ireland
Jane Eyre
Subject: Fiction
Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name “Currer Bell”, on 16 Octo...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Historical, Literature, Romance
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
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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Subject: Fiction
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer revolves around the youthful adventures of the novel’s schoolboy protagonist, Thomas Sawyer, whose reputation precedes him for causing mischie...
Tags: Childrens, Adventure, Young Adult, Fiction, Historical, Literature