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Description Walden is one of the more famous transcendentalist tracts in modern American literature. First published in 1854, Walden is an account of Thoreauโs famous experiment in solitude: spending over two years alone in a cabin near the wilderness. Walden is broken into sections that meditate on single themes: economy, reading, sounds, solitude, visitors, and so on. The style is complex, weaving back and forth between simple, home-spun prose and complex allegory, metaphor, and allusion.
Description The Mysterious Affair at Styles isnโt just Agatha Christieโs first Poirot novel, it was the only Poirot novel in the public domain until 2019. It was written on a bet that Christie couldnโt write a detective novel in which the reader couldnโt deduce the criminal. Her attempt laid the foundation for one of literatureโs most famous detectives. In this novel weโre introduced to Poirot as heโs settling in to a new life in England. After a woman is murdered at the country estate heโs
Description The Jungle is one of the most famous muckraking novels in modern history. Set in Chicago at the dawn of the 20th century, it tells the story of an immigrant Lithuanian family trying to make it in a new world both cruel and full of opportunity. Their struggles are in part a vehicle for Sinclair to shine a spotlight on the monstrous conditions of the meatpacking industry, to expose the brutal exploitation of immigrants and workers, and to espouse his more socialist worldview. The
Description Anton Chekhov is widely considered to be one of the greatest short story writers in history. A physician by day, heโs famously quoted as saying, โMedicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.โ Chekhov wrote nearly 300 short stories in his long writing career; while at first he wrote mainly to make a profit, as his interest in writingโand his skillโgrew, he wrote stories that heavily influenced the modern development of the form. His stories are famous for, among other
Description The Time Machine is the novel that gave us the concept ofโand even the word forโa โtime machine.โ While itโs not Wellsโ first story involving time travel, it is the one that most fully fleshes out the concept of a device that can send a person backwards and forwards in time with complete precision. Time machines have since become a staple of the science fiction and fantasy genres, making The Time Machine one of the most deeply influential science fiction novels of the era.
Description Dubliners is a collection of picturesque short stories that paint a portrait of life in middle-class Dublin in the early 20th century. Joyce, a Dublin native, was careful to use actual locations and settings in the city, as well as language and slang in use at the time, to make the stories directly relatable to those who lived there. The collection had a rocky publication history, with the stories being initially rejected over eighteen times before being provisionally accepted by a