The Custom of the Country is a 1913 novel by Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Undine Spragg, a Midwestern girl who attempts to ascend in New York City society

Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of...

I climbed very high, to eat from the tree. And at the tallest branch, I looked down to see, that I had climbed so high there was no one else. Only me, only me!So begins a stanza...

The beauty of a song is the end. While silence follows and the melody lingers on forever. She is like a sparrow, all bitter and petite. A song with no melody can only be sung by...

Travel and light love poems,a collection of poems written with the heart

Ouida ( 1 January 1839– 25 January 1908) was the pseudonym of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la...

You don't even have to be a fan of any one genre of writing with this writer's style as anything he writes is sure to guarantee images flashing through your cerebral as if...

The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin. The Voyage of the Beagle is Charles Darwin's account of the momentous voyage which set in motion the current of intellectual events...

A collection of poems about yearning for a place to belong, searching for ourselves in the broken pieces of other people, shedding the many layers that no longer serves our...

John Mulhall guides his readers through the various phases of love in his first collection of poems, “A Beautiful Suffering.” An intense vulnerability and a complex tapestry...