"Ulysses" is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature. Joyce divided Ulysses...

"The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is a play by Oscar Wilde. Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish...

"Oliver Twist" is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens and was first published as a serial 1837–39.Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June...

"Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" is a novel by Lew Wallace published by Harper & Brothers on November 12, 1880, and considered "the most influential Christian...

A vast collection of Wilde's aphorisms.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

"Twelve Years a Slave" is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by American Solomon Northup.Solomon Northup (1808 – 1863) was an American abolitionist. 

"Kim" is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. Kim (Kimball O'Hara) is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish...

"Heart of Darkness" (1899) is a novella by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by...

Kate Chopin, born Katherine O'Flaherty (February 8, 1850 – August 22, 1904), was a U.S. author of short stories and novels based in Louisiana. 

"The author was spending some weeks with a party of choice and very dear friends, on an excursion to southern Italy. Nothing could have been more fabulously and dreamily...