Found 318 results for "Gays' writings, history and criticism"
Candide
by Voltaire
Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
Анна Каренина
by Лев Толстой
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The complete poetical works
by Robert Burns
MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!
Apologia pro vita sua
by John Henry Newman
It may easily be conceived how great a trial it is to me to write the following history of myself; but I must not shrink...
Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield
by Oliver Goldsmith
I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who conti...
Critical Essays
by Emmanuel S. Nelson
For scholars of gay and lesbian studies interested in literature of the United States written before the Harlem Renaissa...