L'Assommoir (1877) is the seventh novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart. Usually considered one of Zola's masterpieces, the novel - a harsh and uncompromising study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class di...

The Last Chronicle of Barset is the final novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in 1867....

The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book, and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius i...

The Last Hope is a streetpunk band formed in Johnstown, PA in 2000 and now based out of Southside (Pittsburgh). The band's original members were Pist Hoff, Justun and Chippy. In 2005 the band's lineup expanded to 6 members; with 3 guitarist...

The Last Man is an early post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The Last Man was written in the period following her hus...