This is the text of the essay "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Transcendentalism suggests that the divine, or God, suffuses...

This site includes more than 1800 ghazals and nazms (love poems and songs) in transliterated/romanticized Urdu, the language of Pakistan.

This is the text and audio of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an anti-slavery novel published in 1852, that was said to "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War." It was the best-selling novel of the 19th...

Is she a witch or isn't she? Read the full text of "The Witch" by Anton Chekhov to find out!

Quartermaster Varajou is visiting his sister and becoming bored he decides to look for adventure. Read the full text of "The Wrong House" on this site.

Provides a short biography on the "great romancer" Sir Walter Scott.