Dracula is a gothic novel written, in 1897, by Bram Stoker using the format of diaries and letters. Its main character was inspired by the real life of Prince Vlad III of...

The Great Gatsby is a tormenting love story, the pursuit of an impossible dream, a masterpiece of contemporary literature. The novel is a great portrait of the so-called...

Pride and Prejudice, published in 1813, is one of the most famous novels by the English writer Jane Austen. At the center of the plot there are Mr. and Mrs. Bennet and their five...

The novel, published in 1901, tells the story of Kimball O'Hara, an orphan boy from an Irish sergeant. Kim is poor and lives begging. His wanderings will enable him to be...

Nostromo – A Tale of the Seaboard is a novel, originally published serially for T.P.’s Weekly in1904, set in Costaguana, an imaginary country of South America that in...

The Tempest is a five-act play written by William Shakespeare between 1610 and 1611.The drama tells the story of Prospero, the true Duke of Milan, exiled to an island in the...

The genesis of Frankenstein’s draft is certainly bizarre. In 1817 Mary Shelley spent the summer nearby Lake Geneva, together with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley (poet and...

Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) narrates the story of the relationship, physical and emotional, between Oliver Mellors, a working-class man, and Lady Constance Chatterley, an...

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of stories, published between 1893 and 1894, where adventure, exoticism and friendship are central topics.Mowgli the “man...

“The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the...