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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Reading List by Thomas C. Foster

English professor Thomas C. Foster, at the finish of his book, includes a recommended "reading listing".

Poems of Due west. H. Auden by W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden[1] (/ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən/;[2] 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973), who published as W. H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet,[3][4] born in England, later an American denizen, a...
Waiting for Godot past Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot (pronounced /ˈɡɒdoʊ/) is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for someone named Godot. Godot's absence, besides as numerous other aspects...
Beowulf past Unknown

Beowulf is an One-time English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the eighth and the early 11th century, set in Denmark and Sweden. Commo...
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner

Romantic novelist Edith Hope is staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva, where her friends have advised her to retreat following an unfortunate incident. In that location she meets other English visit...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a falter, created a story about a picayune girl tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, maybe thursday...
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel past Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice'southward Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set some six months later...
The Encarmine Sleeping room And Other Stories by Angela Carter

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Ruby Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of nighttime, sensual...
Wise Children by Angela Carter

Wise Children follows the fortunes of the Take a chance twins, Dora and Nora, taking in the story of their show business family — the Hazards — over the past century. Born illegitimately, spurned by their...
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject thing, The Canterbury Tales accept become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated hither into modernistic English, these tales of a mo...
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign consignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Although Conrad does not specify the name of th...
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Conrad'southward slap-up novel of guilt and redemption follows the beginning mate on board the Patna, a raw youth with dreams of heroism who, in an human activity of cowardice, abandons his ship. His unbearable guilt and i...
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol (originally, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Beingness a Ghost Story of Christmas) is a novella by English writer Charles Dickens (seven February 1812 – 9 June 1870) about a curmudgeon and h...
Dour House by Charles Dickens

Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to exist i of Dickens'south finest novels, containing one of ...
Not bad Expectations past Charles Dickens

Bully Expectations is written in the genre of "bildungsroman" or the style of volume that follows the story of a man or woman in their quest for maturity, usually starting from babyhood and ending i...
Ragtime past E. L. Doctorow

Ragtime is a 1975 novel by Due east. L. Doctorow. This work of historical fiction is mostly set in New York City from about 1900 until the U.s.a. entry into Earth War I in 1917. A unique adaptation...
The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell

A critical and commercial success, the books present four perspectives on a single set up of events and characters in Alexandria, Arab republic of egypt, before and during World War 2. As Durrell explains in his p...
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich'due south offset novel, published in 1984. Each affiliate is narrated by a different grapheme. These narratives are very conversational, as if the narrators were telling a st...
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The novel centers on the Compson family, former Southern aristocrats who are struggling to bargain with the dissolution of their fa...
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The book is told in stream of consciousness writing style by 15 dissimilar narrators in 59 capacity. It is the story of the expiry of Addie Bundren and her family'southward quest—noble or selfish—to laurels he...
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom! is a Southern Gothic novel by the American writer William Faulkner, starting time published in 1936. It is a story about iii families of the American South, taking place before, during,...
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones's Diary is a 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. Written in the class of a personal diary, the novel chronicles a twelvemonth in the life of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something single working woman l...
Pride and Prejudice past Jane Austen

The book is narrated in free indirect speech following the principal character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with matters of upbringing, marriage, moral rightness and instruction in her aristocratic socie...
Tom Jones past Henry Fielding

A foundling of mysterious parentage brought upwardly by Mr. Allworthy on his land estate, Tom Jones is securely in love with the seemingly unattainable Sophia Western, the beautiful daughter of the neig...
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age". Following the shock and anarchy of World State of war I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roar...
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford wrote The Practiced Soldier, the volume on which his reputation nigh surely rests, in deliberate emulation of the nineteenth-century French novels he so admired. In this fashion he was able to...
A Room With a View by E. Thou. Forster

British social one-act examines a young heroine's struggle confronting strait-laced Victorian attitudes as she rejects the man her family unit has encouraged her to marry and chooses, instead, a socially uns...
Howards End by Due east. Thousand. Forster

"Only Connect," Forster'south key aphorism, informs this novel about an English country business firm, Howards Cease, and its influence on the lives of the wealthy and materialistic Wilcoxes; the cultured, ideal...
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster

A Passage to India is gear up against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. The story revolves around 4 characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Cyril Fi...
The Magus by John Fowles

A man trapped in a millionare's mortiferous game of political and sexual betrayal. Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, "The Magus" is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In information technology, a immature Engli...
The French Lieutenant's Woman past John Fowles

The novel's protagonist is Sarah Woodruff, the title Woman, too known by the nickname of "Tragedy", and by the unfortunate nickname "The French Lieutenant'southward Whore". She lives in the coastal town o...
The Poems of Robert Frost by Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic de...
Ane Hundred Years of Solitude past Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of the 20th century's indelible works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate accomplishment in a Nobel Prize–winning car...
Loving by Henry Green

Loving tells the story of the servants in Kinalty Castle, an upper-class Irish household during Globe War Ii.
The Maltese Falcon past Dashiell Hammett

A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn individual eye with his own lonely lawmaking of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, ...
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy's first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that information technology still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit ...
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Violated past 1 homo, forsaken by another, Tess Durbeyfield is the magnificent and spirited heroine of Thomas Hardy'south immortal work. Of all the cracking English novelists, no one writes more eloquently...

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Twice-Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Twice-Told Tales is a short story drove in two volumes past Nathaniel Hawthorne. The outset was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842.[one] The stories had all been previously pub...
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is as well an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbors she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little girl, Pearl, is the product ...
The Firm of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Business firm of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written first in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a...
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

When In Our Time was published in 1925, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its elementary and precise use of language to convey a wide range of circuitous emot...
Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway

Earlier he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his brusk stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitiv...
The Dominicus Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

The novel explores the lives and values of the so-called "Lost Generation," chronicling the experiences of Jake Barnes and several acquaintances on their pilgrimage to Pamplona for the annual San F...
A Good day to Artillery by Ernest Hemingway

The novel is told through the point of view of Lieutenant Frederic Henry, an American serving equally an ambulance driver in the Italian regular army during World War I.
The Old Homo and the Sea past Ernest Hemingway

The Sometime Man and the Body of water is one of Hemingway's about enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordea...
The Iliad past Homer

The Iliad is an epic verse form in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan State of war, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and e...
The Odyssey past Homer

The Odyssey is one of 2 major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer. The poem is central to the thou...
The Plough of the Screw by Henry James

The Plow of the Screw, originally published in 1898, is a gothic ghost story novella written by Henry James. Due to its ambiguous content, it became a favourite text of academics who subscribe t...
Daisy Miller by Henry James

Daisy Miller is a novella past Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book class the following year. Information technology portrays the courtship of the cute American girl Da...
Dubliners past James Joyce

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, kickoff published in 1914. The fifteen stories were meant to be a naturalistic depiction of the Irish gaelic middle form life in and around Dub...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Boyfriend by James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, get-go serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formativ...
Ulysses by James Joyce

Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Flower through Dublin during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer'southward Odyss...
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis (German: Dice Verwandlung) is a novella past Franz Kafka, kickoff published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely st...
The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka

The Complete Stories of Franz Kafka is a compilation of all Kafka's short stories. With the exception of Kafka's three novels (The Trial, The Castle and Amerika), this collection includes all of Ka...
The Trial by Franz Kafka

Written in 1914, The Trial is i of the well-nigh of import novels of the twentieth century: the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and mu...
The Edible bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver

Articulate-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew upwards poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads westward with high hopes and a barely functional car, she ...
Pigs in Heaven past Barbara Kingsolver

When six-year-sometime Turtle Greer witnesses a freak blow at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen, and her mother's belief in her, atomic number 82 to a man'south dramatic rescue. Simply Turtle's momen...
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver is a bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 movement from Georgia to the fictional village of Kilanga in the Belgian Cong...
Selected Stories past D. H. Lawrence

Because of his frank and honest portrayal of human sexuality in the controversial works for which he is best known, e.g. Lady Chatterley's Lover and Women in Dearest, D. H. Lawrence was not widely res...
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers is i of the landmark novels of the twentieth century. When information technology appeared in 1913, it was immediately recognized as the first great modernistic restatement of the oedipal drama, and information technology is...
Women in Honey by D. H. Lawrence

Mayhap no other of the world's great writers lived and wrote with the passionate intensity of D. H. Lawrence. And perhaps no other of his books then explores the mysteries between men and women–both...
Lady Chatterley's Lover past D. H. Lawrence

Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrence'due south last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate dazzler, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped i...
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory

Le Morte d'Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first press and also in some mod editions, Middle French for la mort d'Arthur, "the death of Arthur") is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of ...
Vocal of Solomon by Toni Morrison

It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American male living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood. The master theme in the novel is Milkman'due south quest for identity as a black man in ...
The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

The Ocean, the Sea is the 19th novel by Iris Murdoch. It won the Booker Prize in 1978. The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and managing director as h...
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

The book is internationally famous for its innovative mode and infamous for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, centre anile Humbert Humbert, becomes obsessed and se...
Going Afterward Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

This complex novel is set during the Vietnam State of war and is told from the signal of view of the protagonist, Paul Berlin. The story traces the events that ensue later Cacciato, a member of Berlin's squa...
The Things They Carried past Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried is a collection of related stories by Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers in the Vietnam State of war, originally published in hardcover by Houghton Mifflin, 1990. Whil...
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon

The shortest of Pynchon's novels and frequently considered his near accessible, the book is nigh a woman, Oedipa Maas, possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between 2 post distribution compa...
Hamlet past William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more than merely Hamlet, is a tragedy past William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Pri...
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Based on Plutarch's account of the lives of Brutus, Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony, Julius Caesar was the first of Shakespeare'due south Roman history plays. Presented for the showtime fourth dimension in 1599, the play ...
Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Macbeth, normally just Macbeth, is a play past William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. Information technology is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to accept been written sometim...
King Lear by William Shakespeare

Male monarch Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is considered one of his greatest works. The play is based on the fable of Leir of United kingdom, a...
A Midsummer Dark's Dream past William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare between 1590 and 1596. It is ane of his about played pieces. The events of the play take place in and around Athens in ancient Gr...
The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Storm is a play by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been written in 1610–11, (although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating). The play's protagonist is the banished sorcer...
Twelfth Night: Or, What Y'all Will past William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night; or, What Y'all Will is a comedy past William Shakespeare, believed to take been written effectually 1601–02 equally a Twelfth Dark's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play ...
As You Like it by William Shakespeare

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to take been written in 1599 or early on 1600 and start published in the Get-go Folio, 1623. The play'due south showtime performance is uncertai...
The Sonnets past William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes every bit time, dearest, beauty and mutability. They were proba...
Frankenstein past Mary Shelley

At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the almost celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the next twelvemonth and become the...
Oedipus at Colonus past Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus is one of the iii Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly earlier Sophocles' death in 406 BC and produced by his grandson (also called Sophocles...
Oedipus the King by Sophocles

Oedipus the Male monarch is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's 3 Theban plays to be produced, but it comes commencement in the internal chron...
Antigone by Sophocles

Antigone is a tragedy past Sophocles written before or in 442 BC. Chronologically, it is the 3rd of the 3 Theban plays but was written first.[1] The play expands on the Theban fable that preda...
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem past Edmund Spenser. The first half was published in 1590, and a second installment was published in 1596. The Faerie Queene is notable for its fo...
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dracula is an 1897 novel past Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its main antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literat...
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 Nov 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that skilful night" and "And death shall have no dominion", th...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Revered by all of the town'south children and dreaded by all of its mothers, Blueberry Finn is indisputably the virtually appealing kid-hero in American literature. Unlike the tall-tale, idyllic worl...
Dinner at the Homesick Eatery by Anne Tyler

Dinner at the Homesick Eating place is a 1982 novel by Anne Tyler set in Baltimore, Maryland. It is Anne Tyler'southward ninth novel. In 1983 it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,[i] the National Book Aw...
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the plot rev...
The Early Stories past John Updike

This grand collection of 103 stories gathers together near all the short fiction that Updike published between 1953 and 1975, beginning with "Ace in the Hole" and ending with "Dearest Song for a Moo...
Omeros by Derek Walcott

A poem in v books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal lo...
Mrs. Dalloway past Virginia Woolf

Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime number Government minister", the novel'south story is of Clarissa'due south preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. Wit...
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family unit and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psycholog...
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm

Children's and Household Tales (German language: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a drove of German origin fairy tales commencement published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The drove ...
Early Novels and Stories by James Baldwin

A collection of stories penned by one of the greatest African-American writers of the postwar era includes such works as Go Tell It on the Mount, Giovanni's Room, Some other Country, and Going to M...
H2o Music by T. C. Boyle

Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious business relationship of 2 men'due south wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands to their unlikely meeting in darkest Africa.
Stories by T. C. Boyle

T. C. Boyle is i of the nearly inventive and wickedly funny short story writers at work today. Over the course of twenty-five years, Boyle has built upwardly a body of brusque fiction that is remarkable in...
Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all faux? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted past Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearn...
The Stories of Raymond Carver by Raymond Carver

Raymond Clevie Carver, Jr. (May 25, 1938 – August 2, 1988) was an American short story writer and poet. Carver was a notable writer of the late 20th century and a contributor to the revitalization ...
Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover

A groundbreaking collection of brusk fictions including "The Babysitter," one of the most anthologized stories of all time. Coover'south stories are told well and told in many different styles.
The Bridge past Hart Crane

"Hart Crane'south long verse form The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. This book is a guide to the poem. It'south detailed and far-reaching annotations make [the verse form] fully a...
The Remorseful Twenty-four hour period by Colin Dexter

For a year, the murder of Mrs. Yvonne Harrison at her home in Oxfordshire had baffled the Thames Valley CID. The manner of her death--her naked handcuffed body left lying in bed--matched her reputa...
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Originally published in Dickens' weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, his heartrending tale of the virtuous orphan Piffling Nell captivated readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Nell lives with he...
Incomprehension by Henry Greenish

"Blindness is a major novel . . . Every character and every scene is shot through with significance after significance." The Times [London]
Living by Henry Dark-green

LIVING, as an early novel, marks the beginning of Henry Light-green's career every bit a writer who made his proper noun by exploring class distinctions through the medium of love. Set in an iron foundry in Birmingham...
Party Going by Henry Green

A group of rich, spoiled and idle young people heading off on a winter holiday are stranded at a railway station when their railroad train is delayed past thick, enclosing fog. PARTY GOING describes their fou...
The Short Stories Of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy

This is the extended annotated edition including a rare biographical essay on the life and works of the writer. This compilation of Thomas Hardy'due south curt stories is one of the nearly complete on the b...
A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

A novel about the frightfulness and ruthlessness of being in dearest Martin Lynch-Gibson believes he can possess both a beautiful wife and a delightful lover. But when his married woman, Antonia, of a sudden leav...
The Unicorn past Iris Murdoch

A brilliant mythical drama well-nigh well-meaning people trapped in a war of spiritual forces Marian Taylor, who has come as a "companion" to a lovely woman in a remote castle, becomes aware that her eastward...
The Dark-green Knight past Iris Murdoch

Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in gimmicky London. An attempt past the precipitous, feral, and uncommonly inte...
Much Ado about Nothing past William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's comedy play "Much Ado About Zilch" pivots around the impediments to dearest for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of adultery and the "lover's trap" ready f...
Henry Five by William Shakespeare

The authoritative edition of Henry Five from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, is at present available as an eBook. Features inc...
The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

The Winter'south Tale is a play past William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modernistic editors take relabelled the play as one ...
The Hearts and Lives of Men: A Novel by Fay Weldon

It's 1960s London, and the sexual revolution is in full swing in Fay Weldon'southward enduring story of lust, marriage, family, fine art, avarice, ambition, betrayal, and true love Clifford Wexford and Helen La...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

"For many successive generations now, 'The Waste material Country,' 'The Honey Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,' and 'Four Quartets' have continued to excited readers and to inspire immature poets. Teenagers still disc...