Notes from Underground is a novella written in 1864 by Fyodor Dostoevsky and considered to be one of the first existentialist novels. Its form is an excerpt from the memoirs of an unnamed narrator (referred to as the Underground Man), a former low-rank civil servant that lives in St. Petersburg. The first part, … [Read more...] about Notes from Underground
Dracula
Dracula is an epistolary Gothic horror novel written in 1897 by Bram Stoker, an Irish author who became famous after writing about the vampire named Count Dracula, who later on had many interpretations (theater, movie and television). Stoker visited the seaside town of Whitby in England in 1890 and found inspiration … [Read more...] about Dracula
The Canterbury Tales
"The Canterbury Tales" is an anthology of 24 tales written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1475, mostly in verse and some are in prose. The narrator commences the General Prologue with a description of spring, a time of the year when people wish to go on a pilgrimage. The tales are narrated by a group of … [Read more...] about The Canterbury Tales