Rich enough: A Tale of the Times

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The novel opens with a sprawling preface in which Oscar Wilde lays out his aesthetic creed, insisting that…

The Chautauqua Girls At Home

Pansy

The work is a domestic drama set among a circle of young women whose conversations revolve around faith,…

Rufus and Rose; Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Rufus and Rose is a work of 19th‑century American fiction that blends social commentary with a modest…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The novel unfolds as a richly layered work of Victorian didactic fiction that intertwines the supernatural…

Chester Rand; or, The New Path to Fortune

Horatio Alger, Jr.

Chester Rand, or The New Path to Fortune is a late‑nineteenth‑century American novel that blends the themes…

From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience

Horatio Alger, Jr.

From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience is a nineteenth‑century American novel that pits…