"The Categories" is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a...
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil...
"The Canterville Ghost" is a short story by Oscar Wilde.The story is about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife...
"Antony and Cleopatra" is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre by the King's...
Theodore Canot (1804-1860) was a French-Italian adventurer and slave trader. Brantz Mayer (1809-1879) journalist, produced his memoirs, notable for their vividness and...
Meno is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato.Plato (424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first...
A group of tough young Brits make their way to the west of North America, where there are numerous hazards, in the form of grizzly bears, wolves, and a few tribes of Indians who...
"Don Quixote" is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon.The story follows the adventures of...
The Apology of Socrates by Plato, is the Socratic dialogue that presents the speech of legal self-defence, which Socrates presented at his trial for impiety and corruption, in 399...
"The Burning Secret" is a short story about an American diplomat's son who befriends a mysterious baron while staying at an Austrian spa during the 1920s.Stefan...