A parody of traveler’s tales and a satire of human nature, “Gulliver’s Travels” is Jonathan Swift’s most famous work which was first published in 1726. An immensely popular tale ever since its origina…
Bunyan’s allegory uses the everyday world of common experience as a metaphor for the spiritual journey of the soul toward God. The hero, Christian, encounters many obstacles in his quest: the Valley o…
**Leaves of Grass** is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. First published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and rewriting *Leaves of Grass*, revising it mult…
Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a “letter to the world” – the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today Dickinson stands in t…