Whitman's landmark poetry collection celebrating the self and democracy.
A man in Gilded Age New York is torn between convention and desire.
Mowgli is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle in this beloved classic.
Masterful short stories about Russian life from the great playwright.
Generational conflict between old aristocrats and young nihilists.
A swindler tours rural Russia buying the legal names of dead serfs.
Franklin's account of his rise from printer's apprentice to statesman.
The harrowing autobiography of an escaped American slave and abolitionist.
Darwin's revolutionary work presenting the theory of natural selection.
A schoolmaster is terrorised by the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.
A landmark anti-slavery novel that helped fuel the abolitionist movement.