the lower classes
1The Lower Depths — ( ru. На дне) is perhaps Maxim Gorky s best known play. It was written during the winter of 1901 and the spring of 1902. Subtitled Scenes from Russian Life, it depicted a group of lower class Russians in a lodging house in Volga. Produced by the… …
2The Canterbury Tales — is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are contained inside a frame tale and told by a collection of pilgrims on …
3The Republic (Plato) — The Republic   Author(s) Plato …
4The Sleeper Awakes — (1910) is a dystopian novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world …
5The Gleaners — French: Des glaneuses Artist Jean François Millet Year 1857 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions …
6The Mysteries of Paris — ( fr. Les Mystères de Paris) is a novel by Eugène Sue which was published serially in Journal des débats from June 19 1842 until October 15 1843. Les Mystères de Paris singlehandedly increased the circulation of Journal des débats .There has been …
7The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex —   …
8The Power Elite — is an influential book written by the sociologist, C. Wright Mills, in 1956. In it Mills called attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of society and suggested that the ordinary… …
9The Rise of Christianity (book) — The Rise of Christianity , (subtitled either A sociologist reconsiders history or How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant ReligiousForce in the Western World in a Few Centuries , depending on the edition) is a book by the… …
10The Amateur Emigrant — (in full: The Amateur Emigrant from the Clyde to Sandy Hook ) is Robert Louis Stevenson s travel memoir of his journey from Scotland to California in 1879 1880. It is not a complete account, covering the first third, by ship from Europe to New… …
