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Uncover Taichung’s hidden American past! “Echoing Footsteps of the American Military Presence in Taiwan” reveals how the US military profoundly shaped Taichung’s urban landscape, culture, music, food, and social fabric from the 1950s to the 1970s.... Leer más

The book is a collection of free-flowing texts and sayings, arranged and sequenced according to a unique standard. It carries established truths and diverse meanings aimed at reform, pouring into the stream of transformation. These reflections are... Leer más

America: Past and Present" is more than a history book—it is a journey through time. From the rich heritage of Native civilizations to the birth of a new nation, and from the struggles of independence to the challenges of modern global leadership,... Leer más

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of... Leer más

Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means... Leer más

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when... Leer más

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction. It was first published in 1871 as a serial narrative in The Dark Blue. It tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a... Leer más

The Yellow Wallpaper is a 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating... Leer más

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's first and only published novel, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. Wuthering Heights is the name of the... Leer más

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax after he... Leer más

Oliver Twist, subtitled The Parish Boy's Progress, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to... Leer más

Notes from Underground also translated as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld, is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated,... Leer más

Pandora's Box is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays, the first being Earth Spirit (1895), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". In the original... Leer más

A Little Princess is an expanded version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1888 short story entitled Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's, which was first serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from 1887 to 1888. According to Burnett, after she... Leer más

Pandora's Box is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays, the first being Earth Spirit (1895), both of which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and greed". In the original... Leer más

Little Women was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their... Leer más

The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his magnum opus. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the... Leer más

The Jungle Book is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England,... Leer más

The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary and loosely autobiographical novel, first published in 1774; a revised edition of the novel was published in 1787. Werther was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and... Leer más

Control of Capitalism Over the State exposes the hidden forces that shape our world. From boardrooms to legislatures, wealthy corporations and financial elites are steering policies and decisions that affect every aspect of society. In this eye... Leer más