Theodore Canot (1804-1860) was a French-Italian adventurer and slave trader. Brantz Mayer (1809-1879) journalist, produced his memoirs, notable for their vividness and...

These stories are a daily-life portrait. The main character - with all its flaws - is not entirely imaginary, because she is a journalist who writes about everything: chronicle...

”She is Emily, Emily Marchionne: my life and my joy” in the book there are two interwoven stories between autobiography and romantic and dramatic tale. With an...

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.Hattie Tyng Griswold (1842 - 1909) was a 19th-century American author and poet...

Cicero is one of the few personalities in Rome who got a first level political position thanks only to its education and qualities. Indeed he hadn’t either birth or family...

The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great – novel, 1743, ironic treatment of Jonathan Wild, the most notorious underworld figure of the time.

Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of...

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the East End  for...

In 2017, David got what he thought was a mild touch of the ‘flu. This book is the story of why David would make a lousy doctor. Contrary to the book’s title, David had...