Letter, Diaries

Benjamin Franklin’s writings have inspired millions throughout the years, and his advice on how to earn and save money is timeless. ‘The Way to Wealth’ was an essay written by Benjamin Franklin in 17 …

English writer and visual artist Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti had a marked tendency for mysticism in a range of forms. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and …

James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler was The American painter, etcher, and lithographer who created a new set of principles for the fine arts, favored ‘art for art’s sake’, and introduced a delicate style …

Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter of landscapes of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching. Much of Canaletto’s early artwork was painted ‘from …

Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (1815 – 1905) was a German artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. Along with Caspar David Friedrich, he is considered one of the two most prominent Ge …

Anders Zorn was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and printmaker in etching. His incisive ability to depict the individual character of his mo …

Here you will find the complete novels of Thomas Hardy in the chronological order of their original publication. – Desperate Remedies – Under the Greenwood Tree – A Pair of Blue Eyes – Far from the M …

To Have and To Hold – Mary Johnston – This was the #1 best-selling novel in the United States in 1900, made into movies several times in subsequent years. It is set in colonial North America, beginni …

Jean-François Millet (1814 – 1875) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as par …

What is the secret of these extraordinary creations we call “icons”? In fresh lucid prose, the writer Max Kozloff explores the impact on viewers  of the 17th century painter Vermeer, one of the most …