Written in 1914 for "All-Star Weekly", The Mad King and its 1915 sequel Barney Custer of Beatrice were "Tarzan" creator Edgar Rice Burrough's retelling of the two books in Anthony Hope's "Ruritanian" series, "The Prisoner of Zenda" and its ...

Madame de Mauves is a novella by Henry James, originally published in The Galaxy magazine in 1874. The story centers on the troubled marriage of a scrupulous American wife and a far from scrupulous French husband, and is told mostly from th...

Mademoiselle Fifi is a short story by French writer Guy de Maupassant, published in 1882. Like many of his short stories, such as Boule de Suif and Deux Amis, the story is set during the Franco-Prussian War and explores themes of class barr...

The Magician is an early W. Somerset Maugham novel, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name O...

Magna Carta There are few documents in Anglo-American constitutional history more sanctified than the Magna Carta. On its face, the document is a medieval charter commonly used to convey land, authorized in 1215 by King John of England (116...