Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was initially unwilling to publish her collection of 44 love sonnets, feeling that they were too p...

"The business of the novelist," author Thomas Hardy once wrote, "is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things, and...

Often considered to be the greatest poem of the 19th century, "In Memoriam" is a poem of epic proportions, whose sensitive portray...

"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style" opines Humbert Humbert, erstwhile college professor, aesthete and tor...

Begun when the author was only eighteen and conceived from a nightmare, Frankenstein is the deeply disturbing story of a monstrous creation ...