Germinal(1885) is the thirteenth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Often considered Zola's masterpiece. The novel's central...
What about Science Fiction? deals with the history of this genre, the first authors who approached it and why and supplies information about the development of a way of...
The Great Gatsby is a tormenting love story, the pursuit of an impossible dream, a masterpiece of contemporary literature. The novel is a great portrait of the so-called...
Professor Swollenman, the most erect man in the neighbourhood, has quite a visible gift in his lap. A winning feature in theory, but...Who says that erotic novels don't make...
George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Though no longer a household name, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels)...
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told...
Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story,...
Most critics agree that Cousin Phillis is Gaskell's crowning achievement in the short novel. The story is uncomplicated; its virtues are in the manner of its development and...
Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at 12. Joining the army at 21, he was a war correspondent...
"The Last Days of Pompeii" is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834.Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873), was an English...