Found 282 results for "Plague in literature"
La Peste
by Albert Camus
Les curieux évènements qui font le sujet de cette chronique se sont produit en 194., à Oran.
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665
by Daniel Defoe
IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...
Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)
by Sophocles
OEDIPE. - Enfants, jeune lignee de notre vieux Cadmos, que faites-vous la ainsi a genoux, pieusement pares de rameaux su...
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 foreign...
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Bible
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...
De rerum natura
by Titus Lucretius Carus
Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...
Архипелаг ГУЛАГ
by Александр Исаевич Солженицын
How do people get to this clandestine Archipelago?
Old Saint Paul's, a Tale of the Plague And the Fire
by William Harrison Ainsworth
One night, at the latter end of April, 1665, the family of a citizen of London carrying on an extensive business as a gr...
The Door in the Wall
by Marguerite de Angeli, Paul Champanier
ROBIN drew the coverlet close about his head and turned his face to the wall.
