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Of Human Bondage (1915) is a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It is generally agreed to be his masterpiece and to be strongly autobiographical in nature, …

Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. It argues that people should …

Ethan Frome was written by Edith Wharton , a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designerwho was born in Edith Newbold J …

Bob Strong and his sister Nellie are the children of a busy barrister, too busy to take them on holiday, and they are sent by train down to Portsmouth …

Utopia (in full: Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia) is a fictional work b …

This book is by a really good contemporary authority on how vessels of the Royal Navy were managed in the late nineteenth century, therefore every pag …

Typee (1846; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, partly based on his actual experiences as a c …

An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott.It was first serialised in the Merry's Museum magazine between July and August in 1869 and consi …

"Walking" is an essay written by Henry David Thoreau, in 1861. It was presented in a lecture in that year, but published posthumously. It is the sourc …

Anna Christie is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the …