This semi-autobiographic novel created a sensation in Europe and was Goethe's first major success. The story is told through several letters written by the main character, Werther, a sensitive young artist who falls in love with a woman who is engaged to and then married to another. Unrequited love and disillusionment drives young Werther to despair and eventually to suicide...

Philip Nolan, an army lieutenant, is tried with Aaron Burr as an accomplice to treason in this short story written by Edward Everett Hale. While he is unrepentant at first, he begins to see the value of having a nation to belong to after several years of exile on various navy ships with no word of the United States. Written shortly before the Civil War, the story was successful in generating support for union. ..

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This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

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This wonderful eighteenth-century comedy by Goldsmith begins with a misunderstanding compounded by consequent cases of mistaken identity and an errant attempted seduction. Servant-girls, barmaids, the cunning but ignorant Tony Lumpkin and his ambitious mother, and a shy young gentleman are some of the characters. The play was an immediate success when it opened in 1773. ..

Critics harshly rejected Jude the Obscure, written by Thomas Hardy, after it appeared in 1895 as "dirt, drivel and damnation." It is a story, according to Hardy, "of a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit." Jude is discouraged by poverty, social disapproval and rejection, a miserable marriage, and the deaths of his children. The criticism of this work is thought by some to be the reason Hardy ceased writing novels and turned his focus on poetry and drama...

In this pastoral epic by Goethe, Hermann is a German innkeeper?s son who courts Dorothea, a girl fleeing from the French. Goethe is one of the most celebrated German men of letters of the nineteenth century, and his works continue to influence writers, musicians, and artists...

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Three settlers' secrets entangle them in a shameful love triangle during 1640's Puritan New England society. The main character, Hester, is condemned for committing adultery and must wear a scarlet "A" on her chest for not revealing the name of her lover. The story, like the lives of the characters, has many twists and turns until the dramatic conclusion as Hester's husband tracks down her unnamed lover...

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Hegel is one of the most influential philosophers of the Enlightenment. His works influenced later philosophers, including Marx, Engles, and Kierkegaard. The Philosophy of History is his study of historical events as they relate to the development of human reason. He argues that all history is guided by a rational process and that this process is understandable only through philosophy. ..

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