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The red letter "A" on her dress marks young mother Hester Prynne among her Puritan neighbors, who demand to know who fathered her...

This treasured historical satire, played out in two very different socioeconomic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around...

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth...

The Moonstone, generally recognized as the first detective novel is not only a work of historical importance but also a work that...

Complete in five handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and...

Martin Chuzzlewit, or "the American one", as fans of Dickens often refer to it, is "The Inimitable"'s sixth novel, written and...

The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James...

The House by the Churchyard is a novel by Sheridan Le Fanu published in 1863 that combines elements of the mystery novel and the...

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. In planning his novel, F....

О. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a...

O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter. He wrote 381 short stories while living there. He wrote a...

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the...

Oscar Wilde is considered one of the most brillilant and controversial social and literary gures of all time. Wilde's prison...

Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the...

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the...

Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant...

Mark Twain's brilliant 19th-century novel has long been recognized as one of the finest examples of American literature. It...

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their...

In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mildmannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona -...

Sons and Lovers is a wonderful novel on the complex nature of love in its many forms. We follow the lives of the Morel family who...

When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or...

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she...

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young people fall in love and...

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. Crusoe sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a...

Ernst Theodor Amadeus (E. T. A.) Hofrmann ist ein beruhmter deutscher Schriftsteller, in dessen Werken gehen die Geisterwelt,...

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners - one of the popular novels of all time - that features splendidly...

Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily...

In Othello Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it...

Victor Hugo est un ecrivain romantique francais mondialement celebre. L'influence de son oeuvre, creee au XIXe siecle, sur...