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Clock Without Hands was published in 1961. Publication came about only as a result of the commitment by Carson McCullers to get her manuscript completed for submission. That commitment was in the form of typing most of the manuscript with just one...

The Harvest Gypsies is a seven article long discussion written for newspapers by John Steinbeck. The articles are concerned about the lives of migrant workers in California during the 1920's. Steinbeck begins the discussion talking about the...

In 1791 Susanna Rowson published a novel titled Charlotte, A Tale of Truth that would in editions be known simply as Charlotte Temple. Many later editions were printed and most of those copies immediately purchased as Charlotte Temple did...

After Virtue is a philosophical novel written by Alasdair Macintyre and was first published in 1981 by the University of Notre Dame Press. The third edition of the novel was published in 2007 and contains a new prologue.

The novel focuses on the...

Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity was published in 1802. The English clergyman William Paley wrote this work about philosophy of religion, which presents his arguments of natural theology that argue for the...

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a collaborative effort between writer James Agree and photographer Walker Evans. Ostensibly a documentary-like prose account of a visit to rural Alabama in the summer of 1936 by the writer and photographer, the work...

Robert S. McElvaine (born in 1947) is a professor at Millsaps College in Mississippi. He's enjoyed a wildly successful and lengthy career as a historian, specializing in the Great Depression. In fact he is one of hte world's leading experts upon...

In the late 80's MacKinnon was a celebrated voice in the feminist movement, particularly insightful regarding legal aspects of feminism, such as jurisprudence and ethics regarding mistreatment of women in the workplace. Part of her public...

Mr. Sammler's Planet, written by Saul Bellow, was published in 1970. It is about Artur Sammer, who is a Holocaust survivor; he is often caught with crazy people who promise endless possibilities.

Mr. Sammler is often disappointed at how the more...

A Handful of Dust is a book written by Evelyn Waugh in 193. The story mainly revolves around Tony Last, who is a gentleman that lives in his ancestral home, Hetton Abbey. He is married to his wife Brenda and has a son called John. However, his...

Under Western Eyes is a literary historical fiction novel by the Polish-British author Joseph Conrad. It was first published in 1911, and takes place in Russia and Switzerland. The story talks about a Russian student, Razumov, whose life changes...

Written by Arrian, a student of Epictetus', the Enchiridion is a book of practical stoic philosophy. Both men were Greeks who lived in Rome, although Epictetus, the senior of the two, lived there in slavery. He developed his philosophical ideas...

Zuleika Dobson, the only novel by the renowned essayist, parodist, and caricaturist Max Beerbohm, is a sharp and witty satire on undergraduate life at Oxford University. Published in 1911 by Heinemann Publishing, the novel quickly gained...

Tristan is a novella that was written by Thomas Mann and published in 1903. Tristan is one of the six works in the collection Tristan: Sechs Novellen. The work alludes to the myth of Tristan and Iseult quite often. In this myth, Tristan is a...

Venus in Furs is a novella that was written by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch that was published in 1870. This work is Sacher-Masoch’s best known novella. He had at first intended for this work to be part of a series that he envisioned to be called...

The York Mystery Plays are a collection of 48 mystery plays and pageants that cover history from a religious standpoint, starting from the creation and ending with the Last judgment. These plays are typically presented on the feast day of Corpus...

William Faulkner was an American novelist born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. As a child, he was influenced by his mother to become an avid reader and writer. She introduced him to classic novels at an early age and instilled in...

Three Tall Women is a two-act play by Edward Albee. It was first performed at the English Theater in Vienna, Austria under the direction of Albee himself and starring American actress Myra Carter, who won several awards for the performance.

In...

The Waves is the seventh novel published by Virginia Woolf. By 1931 when the book hit stores, it had undergone a rather significant change from its manuscript form. Woolf started writing this novel with the intention of the title being “The Moths....

William Dusinberre is Reader Emeritus (a senior professor/lecturer) in American History at the University of Warwick. He has written multiple texts on the Civil War and slavery in the antebellum (pre-Civil War) South. Them Dark Days, in...

James Mercer Langston Hughes, was an American poet and social activist, born and raised in Joplin, Mississippi. Langston Hughes was a prominent leader in the Harlem Renaissance, an artistic movement in the 1920s that consisted of new...

Director Ernst Lubitsch regularly referred to this 1932 pre-Code sex comedy Trouble in Paradise as his favorite of all the movies he directed. Lubitsch is regarded as one of the masters of light comedy, especially romantic comedies to the point...

Milan Kundera is a Czech author naturalized French, born on April 1, 1929, in Brno, Czechoslovakia (present-day Czechia). After secondary school, he attended Charles University to study literature and later transferred to the Academy of Performing...

Wise Children is a novel published in 1991 by the English author Angela Carter. The novel was the author’s last one as she started writing it after she was diagnosed with cancer. Angela Carter died just a year later at the age of 51. Angela Carter...