Literary Criticism
Anne's House of Dreams
In Anne's House of Dreams, Lucy Maud Montgomery continues the beloved story of Anne Shirley as she embarks on a new chapter of her life. Now…
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens the author of Dombey and Son, originally wrote the book in installments which were published from October 1846 to April 1848…
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in ric…
David Copperfield
The story is told almost entirely from the point of view of the first person narrator, David Copperfield himself, and was the first Dickens …
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The…
The Old Curiosity Shop
Written in the years 1840 to 1841, when Dickens was twenty-eight years old, this is a ‘Road’ tale in the very best tradition. Little Nell Tr…
Cousin Phillis
Cousin Phillis is a poignant exploration of youth and the complexities of growing up, set against the backdrop of rural England in the 19th …
Passing
Nella Larsen, a novelist of the Harlem Renaissance, wrote two brilliant novels that interrogated issues of gender and race. In Passing, her…
Mary Barton
"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuou…
The Eyes Of The World
The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views a…
Howards End
The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of …
Doctor Thorne
Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personali…
The Brothers Karamazov
Originally published in serial form in 1879-80, “The Brothers Karamazov” is recognized as one of the very greatest masterpieces of world lit…
Oliver Twist
"Please sir, I want some more," the famous line spoken by Oliver Twist at age nine, becomes the tipping point of a huge change in …
Notes From The Underground
Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presen…
The Idiot
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural …
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer …
The Awakening
Kate Chopin's 1899 novella The Awakening is about the personal, sexual, and artistic awakening of a young wife and mother, Edna Pontellier. …
My Ántonia
My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a parti…