"Salome," a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its provocative depiction of a ...

Therese, a struggling young sales clerk, and Carol, a homemaker in the midst of a bitter divorce, abandon their oppressive ...

But at last he arrived. And quite magnificent he looked too, perched on a branch which was screwed on to a mahogany plinth, with one foot held raised, his head cocked to one side and holding ...

When Flaubert died in 1880, he left Bouvard and Pecuchet, his "kind of encyclopedia made into a farce," unfinished and unedited. In scope, it was to be Flaubert's masterpiece: a satiric work ...

There is a fashion in literature, too. Once upon a time, young ladies would read romance novels and imagine that a real man should resemble the main characters of the books. Writers such as Gustave ...