Published in 2012, The Tale Teller is a novel written by Susan Glickman, a Canadian author and professor. She has written many works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as three books for younger readers. A few of her other books also deal...

Perhaps the single most interesting tidbit relating to the background of Oedipus at Colonus may be apocryphal, but its authenticity or lack thereof does nothing to lessen the symbolic lesson everyone can learn. The son of the playwright Sophocles...

First published in 1995, Loaded is a novel by Christos Tsioklas, an Australian author of Greek heritage. The novel focuses on a 24-hour period in the life of a young gay Greek Australian man living in Melbourne, where Tsioklas himself was born and...

Written by author Dorothy Porter, The Monkeys Mask (published in 1997) tells the story of a 19-year-old girl named Mickey who loves poetry and poets. Then, Mickey mysteriously goes missing under suspicious circumstances and the missing person case...

Written by Frederick James Furnivall, The Babees' Book was originally published in 1908 by London Chatto and Windus. Reproduced copies are also available. This is an instructional book meant to inform its readers of Medieval etiquette....

The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel written by Kazuo Ishiguro and was published by Faber&Faber publishing company in 2015. This is the seventh of Ishiguro’s works and has also been distributed in the USA via Random House publishers.

The novel...

Still Alice is a novel written by Lisa Genova, and was initially self-published in 2007 with iUniverse. The book was then republished by Gallery Books in 2009.

The novel revolves around the life of a middle-aged woman named Alice Howland, who...

The seventeen stories that comprise the collection of Robert Carver in the anthology titled Beginners all reveal the extent to which his writing is profoundly influenced by Ernest Hemingway. From the opener “Why Don’t You Dance?” to the closer “...

Tusk and Stone is a novel written by Malcolm Bosse and published in 1995. Bosse is an author who graduated from Yale University and also served in the Navy. He has written many novels that are set in Asia, capturing much of the cultural and...

Plato began his career as a writer of tragedies, but, influenced by Socrates, left that behind and began writing philosophical dialogues. Other writers also wrote about Socrates and his speeches. Plato’s use of him as a main character may not have...

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story is based on a non-fiction article by Richard Preston that was published in The New Yorker on October 26, 1992. Titled “Crisis in the Hot Zone,” the article chronicled an outbreak of a mutated strain of the...

The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a novel by Mitch Albom that was published in 2003. It follows the life and death of a maintenance man named Eddie.

Albom grew up Jewish and, although he does not subscribe to any specific religion today, feels...

Walter Dean Myers's novel Fallen Angels was published in 1988. The novel is based on the author's own experiences as a young American soldier fighting in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War lasted from 1959 to 1973, but the United States had the most...

Everyday Use was first published in 1973 as part of the short story collection In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Women. These stories span multi-generational periods and interconnect Black women from the American South, New York City and...

Though published over 100 years ago, The Wind the Willows has survived as a classic children's novel, one which has been in print since initial publication and continues to delight children even today.

Kenneth Grahame created the characters of...

Remains of the Day, published in 1989 is the third novel by Kazuo Ishiguro after A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World. Remains of the Day has since become a modern classic after it won not only the Man Booker Prize in 1989, but...

The poem To The Pious Memory of the Accomplish'd Young Lady Mrs. Anne Killigrew, published in 1686, is an elegy written by John Dryden in the memory of Anne Killigrew, a British poet who lived between 1660 and 1685.

Even if Anne Killigrew is...