PDF Books in Literary Fiction
The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems
by Francesco PetrarcaThe Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems are a collection of literary works of Francesco Petrarca, an Italian poet remembered as the humanist and the first to develop “Dark Ages” concept. He is often called as the “Father of Humanism”. His notable works of Poetry, essays and letters include Canzoniere ("Songbook"), Secretum ("My Secret Book"), De ..
The Golden Asse or The Metamorphoses
by ApuleiusThe Golden Asse is one of the oldest surviving Latin novels written by the Latin prose writer and magician Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis, whose other writings include A Discourse on Magic, On Plato and his Doctrine, On the God of Socrates, On the Universe, and Florida: A compilation of twenty-three extracts from his various speeches and lectures. ..
Poems
by Victor HugoThis book is a selection collection of poems of Victor Hugo, a French writer who has influenced the Romantic Movement and remembered for his magnum opus Les Misérables. His poems captured the spirit of Romantic era and touched religious themes. Notable poems in this collection are The Girl Of Otaheite, The Feast Of Freedom, The Morning Of Life, The..
Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
by KalidasaShakuntala is a dramatized version of a story from Mahabharata, written by Kalidasa, one of the greatest Sanskrit dramatist and poet. Shakuntala, is brought up in a forest by Kanva Rishi, after her father Vishwāmitra, a sage disowns her on account of continuing his ascetism. King Dushyanta encounters her in forest during his hunting and they get..
Nature
by Ralph Waldo Emerson"Nature" is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an American author who was instrumental to the development of transcendentalism. His notable contribution to the literary world as essays and poems include Self-Reliance, Compensation, The Over-Soul and The Rhodora. The Author divides nature into four usages such as Commodity, Beauty, Language..
Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
by Charles DickensDickens non-fiction work Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People resembles the young Dickens' views on the then Victorian Society. His 56 pieces of sketches has been largely divided into four sections as Our Parish, Scenes, Characters and Tales. While the Tales contains fictional stories rest of the sections are n..
The Decameron
by Giovanni BoccaccioThe Decameron is novella written by Giovanni Boccaccio, an Italian poet narrated through a group of people in fear of black death. These stories guide the way to live life encountering with romance, love, death, grief and fear. It would be noteworthy that Decameron has been referred in the works of Shakespeare and Saucer. ..
The Personal History of David Copperfield
by Charles DickensI do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret?pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in..