Literature
Reference documents in Literature.
Documents in Literature
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Caught between the empires of Napoleonic France and Tsarist Russia, those in Danzig struggle to survive a nightmare of occupation and destruction, but within this the unlikeliest of friendships offers salvation to two very different people.
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A blackmailer falsely accuses a dead woman’s niece of murder by poison, but the evidence suggests the accusation might not be false after all.
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An independent young woman from London is gifted a two week trip to a resort in Switzerland.
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An early Christian theologian expounds on the doctrine of humanity being made in God’s image.
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A German storm troop officer recounts his experiences in World War I.
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Children’s author E. Nesbit retells some of Shakespeare’s plays for young readers.
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Driven by their shared idealism, two men returning to Imperial Russia to effect change face mortal danger from both an autocratic state desperate to preserve its power and a peasantry driven to desperation by centuries of servitude.
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A young scholar’s life spirals down a dark path after the near-death of a singer.
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A domineering inventor kidnaps members of a balloonist club and flies them around the world to prove the superiority of his heavier-than-air machine.
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An elderly Roman Stoic philosopher gives life advice to a young friend.
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A mining engineer and his friend suffer a series of misfortunes in their search for riches and treasure.
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A proud but poor father is forced to cope with his daughter moving to the city.
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Two childhood friends—a young man who has become a renowned war correspondent and a young woman who is just emerging from the shadow of her more-celebrated sister—discover that as events conspire against them, their characters might enable them to overcome all— yet separate them forever.
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When three men known as the “vultures” arrive in Warsaw, princes and revolutionaries alike wonder whether they’ve come to watch for the long-awaited uprising against the Russian Empire—or to ignite it.
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The complete short fiction of Joseph Conrad.
