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William E. Burton - Actor, Author, and Manager
by William L. KeeseWilliam E. Burton: Actor, Author, and Manager written by William L. Keese is the biography of William E. Burton who lost his father in early life and taken over his printing business to take care of his mother. After few years of running his printing business, he went on to become editor of a monthly magazine. His editorship brought him in..
Harbor Jim of Newfoundland
by Alden Eugene BartlettHarbor Jim of Newfoundland is a fiction novel written by Alden Eugene Bartlett, the author of The Joy Maker; A Guide to Happiness, Least known America, and Out-of-the-way places of Europe. The author has dedicated this work to the Sea man and mentions in his dedication note as ”To those Newfoundlanders who, in gathering harvests from..
Leaves of Grass
by Walt WhitmanLeaves of Grass is a collection of poems written by “the father of free verse” Walt Whitman, an American poet who published this work initially as a collection of 12 poems and went on to re-write until his death which ended up with 400 poems written over a period of forty years. Whitman did not follow any rules of standard such as line length, a..
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick DouglassThe Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an autobiography of Frederick Douglass, who was a slave and went on to write the most influential literature that fueled the abolitionist movement of the 19th century. He did not his date of birth and lost his mother when he was 7 years old. The biography narrates the life of slaves, how they sh..
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel of the most controversial English play wright Oscar Wilde. Not being a drama, this novel is not an exemption of controversies, and has gone through many edits due to strong outrage by British critics to the extent of asking for the author’s prosecution. Basil Hallward uses Dorian grey for on..
Dubliners
by James JoyceDubliners is a collection of short stories written by Irish writer James Joyce, during a period when people of the then Ireland was peaking at Irish Nationalism. Based on the Middle class life of people around Dublin, some of these 15 stories were narrated by Child protagonists and moved on to older people. The stories are narrated and ref..
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe Yellow Wallpaper written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story of a woman who has been forced to confine herself in a locked room in the pretended care for her motherhood. Jane, a young mother has been confined in a rented summer house by her husband John who is a physician. Jane goes through psychic problems inside the room and start..
A Christmas Carol
by Charles DickensA Christmas Carol written by Charles Dickens is a short story about a man’s transformation from a miser to a generous man, under the influence of Ghost of his business partner visit. Ebenezer Scrooge, who is a wealthy industrialist and a miser who hates Christmas and neither celebrate himself nor help others to celebrate. Fred, the nephew of Ebe..