Agnes Grey was an 1847 novel based on her experience. At age 19 Anne Bronte left home and worked as a governess for a few years before becoming a writer. Bronte depicts the precarious position of a go...
Martin Chuzzlewit, or 'the American one', as fans of Dickens often refer to it, is 'The Inimitable''s sixth novel, written and published in twenty monthly parts between January 1843 to July 1844, when...
Poete, romancier, dramaturge et historien, Voltaire est un des plus grands philosophes francais du siecle des Lumieres. L'un de ses plus grands succes, le poeme satyrique «La Pucelle d'Orleans» recree...
L'un des ecrivains francais les plus connus, Honore de Balzac est un pilier du realisme europeen. «La Peau de chagrin» compte parmi ses oeuvres les plus illustres. Raphael brule la chandelle par les d...
King Lear, growing old and too tired to reign, decides to divide his realm amongst his three daughters, leaving the largest share to the one who loves him the most. His two eldest daughters, Goneril a...
A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live ...
A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters - the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a v...
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the...
Twain's time travel tale takes you back to the time of King Author and the Knights of the Round Table. Unlike most glamorous takes on the old tale, Twain paints a picture of absurdity, superstition, a...
Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but indep...
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people 'dreade...
Mark Twain's brilliant 19th-century novel has long been recognized as one of the finest examples of American literature. It brings back the irrepressible and free-spirited Huck, first introduced in Th...