Best remembered for the story that gave us the ballet The Nutcracker, ETA Hoffmann wrote many uncanny, supernatural tales. Here are five of them.
Jane Austen’s novels advocated virtuous living, drawing on Aristotelian ideas of virtue and implicit Christian virtues to find the middle path to happiness.
Discover the works of Thomas Hardy, a Victorian writer who captured the intricacies of families and relationships within his texts through evocative, poetic prose.
Who was Giovanni Boccaccio, and what made his major work, the Decameron, so influential? Read about this forerunner of the Renaissance and his masterpiece.
Discover thirteen writers who hail from Ireland, beyond the ones you may already have heard of.
During the tumultuous 1960s, French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss was a rising superstar in the Western intellectual firmament. What made his name and achievements shine bright?
Widely loved now as a fantastical children’s tale, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) blends satire and moral critique to mock Victorian authority, education, and rigid social norms.
Discover the life, legend, and literature of one of the Romantic era's greatest authors, Frankenstein creator Mary Shelley.
