Beyond Good and Evil (German: Jenseits von Gut und Böse), subtitled "Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future" (Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft), is a book by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche,...
Friedrich Nietzsche's "The Antichrist" might be more aptly named "The Antichristian," for it is an unmitigated attack on Christianity that Nietzsche makes within the text instead of an exposition on evil or...
"In a Grove" is an early modernist short story consisting of seven varying accounts of the murder of a samurai, Kanazawa no Takehiro, whose corpse has been found in a bamboo forest near Kyoto. Each section simultaneously...
The Authorized King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible began in 1604 and completed in 1611 by the Church of England. A primary concern of the translators was to produce a Bible that...
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in...
The Awakening shocked turn-of-the-century readers with its forthright treatment of sex and suicide. Departing from literary convention, Kate Chopin failed to condemn her heroine's desire for an affair with the...
A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start to finish...
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FREE first in series novel that neatly fits in the sci fi / fantasy / horror/ mystery/ suspense /alternate history genre. A small town doctor in the Shawnee Nation is severely injured and briefly dies in an...
Word of mouth is the only thing that can make a book really successful. Until recently, this required “pull”—connections with powerful allies in the publishing food chain. Today, creative writers can connect...
Abbi is a normal girl. She still lives at home with her mother. Then one day she meets Mark and her world is turned upside down. Suddenly nothing is as it seems and people keep trying to drive a wedge between...
Bridjelkort, bourgade perdue au beau milieu des USA. Un macabre fléau s'est abattu sur la ville, une porte sur un autre monde ayant été ouverte au sous-sol d'un abattoir désaffecté, laissant libre passage...
The Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of...
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is also...
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction,...
« Tout le monde ne peut pas être orphelin. » Poil de carotte est un enfant très mal aimé qui, pour lutter contre les humiliations quotidiennes et la haine maternelle, n'a que la ruse. Sans doute est-ce...
Les Confessions de Jean-Jacques Rousseau est une autobiographie publiée à titre posthume. Le titre des Confessions a sans doute été choisi en référence aux Confessions de Saint-Augustin, publiées au IVe...