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Omens and Superstitions of Southern India

by Edgar Thurston

Anthropologist Edgar Thornton's research work explores the Superstitions and mythological concepts prevailing during the British Rule in India, especially in the southern part of Indian estates such as Travancore, Cochin and Madras. It will be surprising for the readers to know the myths such as worshiping Snakes, Stones and animals. There were als..

Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

by Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson's Epistolary novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded narrates the story of a maidservant and obsession of her master. Mr. B is obsessed with his maidservant Pamela and his mother's death create a circumstance to seduce even attempting to rape her. Pamela does not like her master's advance and writing letter to her peasant parents. Mr. B ..

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova

Similar to his fictitious hero Don Juan, Venice novelist Giacomo Casanova's transparent autobiography The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova resembles the womanizer in him mentioning hundreds women he had intimate relationship. Written in five volumes, this personal memoir reflects the eighteenth century European social life. Exiled twice from his country..

Oedipus The King

by Sophocles

Oedipus the King is the first play of the Oedipus Trilogy penned by Athenian tragedian Sophocles. Disowned as an infant by his parents Thebes King Laius and Queen Jocasta, Oedipus raised by King Polybus. Knowing his past and the prophecy stating he will kill his father, Oedipus leaves King Polybus falsely interpreting his as father. However the inc..

Oedipus at Colonus

by Sophocles

Oedipus at Colonus is the second play of Oedipus Trilogy penned by Athenian tragedian Sophocles. The play follows the preceding incidents after Oedipus blinding himself and eventually expelled by his sons Eteocles and Polynices. Along with his daughters Antigone and Ismene, Oedipus moves to holy-land. He curses his sons that they will kill each oth..

Antigone

by Sophocles

Antigone is the third play of Oedipus Trilogy penned by Athenian tragedian Sophocles which follows the incidents after death of Oedipus and his sons. New Thebes ruler Creon decides to put bodies of Eteocles and Polynices to public shame. Brave Antigone breaks the orders of Creon and buries bodies and eventually imprisoned along-with her sister Isme..

John Silence

by Algernon Blackwood

Well Known for his ghost stories Algernon Blackwood's six stories titled as John Silence narrating Dr. John Silence's exploration of supernatural forces...

The Shunned House

by H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft's horror fiction work The Shunned House is a thrilling short story about an abandoned house which is precluded with supernatural monsters. The family members of an abandoned house meet death unnaturally and believed to stay as ghosts in the house. The protagonist and his uncle Dr. Elihu Whipple make curious attempt to destroy the mo..