A dog named Buck is stolen and forced to work as an Alaskan sled dog, fighting, stealing, and killing in order to survive.
The Cenci is written by A. Dumas pere.
The second of Charles Dickens's Christmas books is both a topical satire and a plea for human charity.
After marrying Laura, the conservative speculator, after making a nice profit on the wheat market, becomes obsessive over controlling it. As his wealth grows in a short period of time and for a while he captures the market. Ultimately, though, the market corrects itself and he must save his...
The Quest of the Silver Fleece is a remarkable portrait of racial prejudice at the turn of the twentieth century. Through the characters, Du Bois demonstrates the efficacy of self-sufficiency for those who face discrimination while championing the benefits of strength in diversity to American...
In the novel The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, young soldier Henry Fleming entered the American Civil War as a nervous, unready boy. By convincing himself that others were more cowardly than he, however, Henry succeeded in making himself feel like a hero.
In early colonial Massachusetts, a young woman experiences the results of adultery and must spend the remainder of her life atoning for her sins.
Wolf Larsen, the captain of The Ghost, is considered a cruel and repelling man, but he also possesses a certain magnetism that draws one near.
The debonair and patriotic Sir Oliver is a pirate who invades Spanish ships for England when he is led into a conspiracy.
This is a full and up-to-date bibliography, a comprehensive chronology and a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a "monstrous town," a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery. It also discusses contemporary anarchist activity in the...