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This collection of eight short stories written during his "Klondike" period, has become a trademark of London's work. The title...

This Side of Paradise tells the story of Amory Blaine, the only child of wealthy parents, whose journey from adolescence to...

The plot of the novel The Lost World (1912) describes an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin where prehistoric animals...

The Picture of Dorian Gray tells the story of a handsome young man, whose full-length portrait was painted by an artist...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1892, is a collection of twelve short stories, featuring a fictional...

Sense and Sensibility was first published anonymously in 1811. The novel tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne,...

The Great Gatsby (1925) follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the...

Although Wuthering Heights is now regarded as a classic of English literature, contemporary opinions were deeply polarized; the...

Ulysses, first published in February 1922, is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has...

Paradise Lost (1667) an epic poem written in blank verse, is considered to be Milton's major work. It certainly helped solidify...

The Age of Innocence (1920) won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making Wharton the first woman to win the award. The...

Dracula (a Gothic horror novel, first published in 1897) tells the story of the vampire Count Dracula's attempt to move from...

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (first published in 1826) is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) tells the story of a Yankee engineer from Connecticut who is accidentally...

King Lear depicts the gradual descent into madness of the title character, an ageing British monarch. He intends to divide his...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, was written between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is Joyce's first novel. Written in the modernist style, it traces the religious...

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories - all of them had been published earlier, independently....

The Beautiful and Damned, first published in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York caf...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of...

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, unfinished at the time of the author's death.
Though the novel...

The Black Arrow was first published in 1888. Being both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel, The Black Arrow tells...

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who...

The First Men in the Moon (1901) is a scientific romance; the novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the...

The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella originally published in 1897. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a...

Northanger Abbey (1817) was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed, but it was published only after her death. The...

The Sea-Wolf, first published in 1904, is a psychological adventure novel. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a...

Named after the first story the collection When God Laughs and Other Stories explores themes for which London became famous: the...

A Study in Scarlet (first published in 1987) marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two...

The Hound of the Basketyilles is the third of the crime novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, first published in 1901-1902. It tells...