The life of Henry James, who left America for a cosmopolitan life in Europe before settling in England and contributing multiple masterpieces to its literature.
Best remembered for the story that gave us the ballet The Nutcracker, ETA Hoffmann wrote many uncanny, supernatural tales. Here are five of them.
Jane Austen’s novels advocated virtuous living, drawing on Aristotelian ideas of virtue and implicit Christian virtues to find the middle path to happiness.
Discover the works of Thomas Hardy, a Victorian writer who captured the intricacies of families and relationships within his texts through evocative, poetic prose.
Follow Dante’s mystical journey in Heaven (Paradiso), the final, and most theological, canto of The Divine Comedy.
Discover the enduring genius of Mary Shelley's great work of proto-science fiction: Frankenstein.
Explore how Faust’s pact with the Devil for infinite knowledge turned into a literary cornerstone, influencing major authors like Goethe, Wilde, and Mann.
Widely loved now as a fantastical children’s tale, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) blends satire and moral critique to mock Victorian authority, education, and rigid social norms.
