Cashel Byron's Profession is George Bernard Shaw's fourth novel. The novel was written in 1882 and after rejection by several publishers it was published in serialized form in a socialist magazine. The novel was later published as a book in...

Horace Walpole (1717-1797) invented the Gothic novel in his attempt to blend wildness and imagination of the old romance, in his own words "an attempt to blend the two kinds of romance, the ancient and the modern'' in one step altogether, ...

SOURCE: A review of Cathedral, in Time, Vol. 122, September 19, 1983, p. 95. In the following review, Gray suggests that Cathedral contains hidden depths of meaning. For years now, the demographics of the American short story have been movi...

Catriona (also known as David Balfour) is an 1893 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is a sequel to Kidnapped, and tells the further story of the central character David Balfour. It has proved significantly less popular than the earlier wo...