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Dante Alighieri (May/June c.1265 – September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. In Italy he is known as "the Supreme Poet" (il Sommo Poeta) or just il Poeta. The Divine Comedy (Italian: La Divina Commedia), written between 1308 and Alighieri's death in 1321, is widely considered the central poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-...

The Metamorphosis (in German “Die Verwandlung”) is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of short fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking one morning in his family's apartment to find himself inexplicably transformed overnight into a gigantic insect. Gregor does not immediately recoil from his insect form, but instead chooses to lament his ...

Daniel Deronda is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the contemporary Victorian society of her day. Its mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with a sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto-Zionist and Kaballistic ideas has made it a controversial final statement of one of the greatest of Victorian novelists. Daniel Deronda contains two main plot lines – it begins with the meeting of Daniel Deronda and Gwendolen Harleth in Germany. Daniel finds ...

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. The bulk of his fictional works, initially published as serials in magazines, were set in the semi-fictional land of Wessex (based on the Dorchester region where he grew up) and explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances. Tess...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often shortened to Huck Finn) is a novel written by Mark Twain published in 1884. It is commonly accounted as one of the Great American Novels, and is one of the first major American novels written using Local Color Regionalism, or vernacular. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels. This eBook uses the established Standard Works book reader already enjoyed by thousands of users on a daily basis. It's also the same r...

Charlotte Brontë (pronounced /ˈbrɒnteɪ/) (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels are English literature standards. Under the pen name Currer Bell, she wrote Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is a first-person narrative of the title character. The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations...

LDS Escrituras is the Spanish version of the LDS Scriptures app by Standard Works LLC. Now with TrueTabs™ feature! It is the only app for any device that contains the newly released LDS Edition of the Spanish Bible, Reina-Valera 2009! LDS Escrituras is simply the best Spanish scripture app available. It has the most content, updates, support, and best implemented features of any scriptures app. Other apps mention some of the same features, but offer only simplistic implementations of them. This app contains many features not fou...

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving andbusiness manager of the Lyceum Theatre in London, which Irving owned. Dracula features as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structura...

The Prince (or Italian “Il Principe”) is a political treatise by the Italian public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. It was originally written in 1513, but not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death. The Prince was one of the first works of modern philosophy, in which pragmatic ends, opposed to teleological concepts, are the purpose. The Prince examines the acquisition, perpetuation, and use of political power in the western world. Machiavelli wrote The Prince to prove his proficiency in ...

Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky (sometimes transliterated Dostoevsky, Dostoievsky, Dostojevskij, Dostoevski, Dostojevski or Dostoevskij) was a Russian writer, essayist and philosopher, known for his novels Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky's literary output explores human psychology in the troubled political, social and spiritual context of 19th-century Russian society. Crime and Punishment was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments in 1866. It was...