Culture and Anarchy - Matthew Arnold
Culture and Anarchy is a series of journal papers by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine in 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. A preface was added in 1875. Arnold's famous cultural writings established his High Victorian Cultural Agenda, which dominated debate from the 1860s...
Colonel Chabert - Honoré de Balzac
Colonel Chabert, a soldier who disappeared during the Napoleonic Wars and then returned from the dead, remarried, and went into the world, much to his wife's distress. Balzac's novella exposes the mercenary of the French Restoration. It has been filmed several times, most recently in a 1994 version...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 9 - Samuel Richardson
In Volume 9 Clarissa hastens to her fate and the various culprits reap the consequences of their crimes of indifference, cruelty and neglect. One of the earliest and certainly the longest novel in the English language, with a wide-ranging influence not only on the English novel, but also on...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 8 - Samuel Richardson
In Volume 8 Clarissa continues to decline towards her pitiful end, while Lovelace remains defiant, even as his nemesis Colonel Morden finally arrives his town. One of the earliest and certainly the longest novel in the English language, with a wide-ranging influence not only on the English novel,...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 7 - Samuel Richardson
In Book 7, Clarissa's degradation and humiliation at the hands of all the forces of society and the personal evil of the diabolical lecherous Lovelace continue, while her moral greatness and superiority over Lovelace Shining with undiminished brilliance. One of the earliest and longest-running...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5 - Samuel Richardson
Book 5 continues in epistolary form the story of Clarissa's sacking, as all the forces of society and the personal evil of diabolical libertine Lovelace conspire to murder her virtue. One of the earliest and longest-running novels in the English language, it has profoundly influenced English...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 4 - Samuel Richardson
Volume 4 continues the story of Clarissa's dismissal alphabetically when all the forces of society and the personal evil of the diabolical libertine Lovelace conspire to overwhelm her virtue. One of the earliest and longest-running novels in the English language, it has had a profound influence on...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2 - Samuel Richardson
Clarissa, or The Story of a Young Lady, is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the harrowing story of a heroine's quest for virtue, her family constantly thwarting it, and is the longest true novel in English. (from Wikipedia)...