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The Dead Secret is Wilkie Collins ' fourth novel. It first appeared in serial form in Charles Dickens ' Household Words magazine during 1856 . Like many of Collins ' books, it features incidents and t...

The Federalist Papers In early 1787 , the Congress of the United States called a meeting of delegates from each state to try to fix what was wrong with the Articles of Confederation. The Articles had ...

The Golden Triangle Maurice Leblanc Captain Belval, learning of a threat to his beloved nurse Little Mother Coralie, rescues her from her would-be assailants and is promptly dragged into a plot involv...

The House of Mirth is Edith Wharton 's biting critique of New York's upper classes around the end of the 19th century. The novel follows socialite Lily Bart as she struggles to maintain a precarious p...

The Humbugs of the World P. T. Barnum "Humbug ... I won't believe it," is Scrooge's response when confronted by the ghost of his dead partner Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, and just as surely as D...

The Last Man, by Mary Shelley, chronicles the last days of humanity in the 21st century as it is slowly obliterated by a global pandemic. Radical changes and events across Europe-the king abdicates, t...

The Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans is one of the most famous tales of pioneer American adventure. Set during the French and Indian War, Mohicans tells the tale of ...

The Laughing Cavalier Baroness Orczy A young woman in 17th century Holland inadvertently overhears the details of a plot to kill a political figure. The principal figures in the plot, one of whom is h...