In Desperate Remedies a young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved...

To let is the final novel of the trilogy Forsyte. The story is a continuation of the struggle between the two factions within that family: now the shadow of the past comes back to...

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, the child of a family of small-town weavers, and best remembered...

"The Silver spoon" is a literary work that is part of the second trilogy of the Forsyte saga by John Galsworthy between 1906 and 1921. Fleur and Michael Mont show...

The Rise of Historical Criticism(1908), is a mature essay by Oscar Wilde, evaluating the history and current state of criticism. The writer goes back in history and tries to...

The earliest of the postal reformer's forefathers to achieve fame that outlives him was Sir Rowland Hill, mercer, and Lord Mayor of London in 1549, a native of Hodnet,...

The Cenci was written in the year 1839 by Stendhal. A wonderful biography of a fictional modern don Juan.

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers (1827–1911), a notable corporate and bankruptcy lawyer, and Caroline Smith Boughton (1842-1913). His parents met...

Although Bob Dylan’s music of the 1960s and 70s was highly acclaimed and vastly influential, by the mid 1980s his creativity had dipped so low that he was seriously thinking of...

This book is about the truth of Tertullian of Carthage, the great theologian of the early church, my part may also be to comment on this masterpiece left for posterity. This book...