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The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of fables using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of...

Paradise Regained recalls the earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost by its title, its use of blank verse, and its...

Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and detective created by Chesterton in the early 20th century. Unlike the...

Soon after its publication Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional)...

Hearts of Three - an adventure novel about young descendant of the pirate Henry Morgan who wants to find the treasure of his...

Lord Jim tells the story of young British seaman Jim who once showed a lack of determination and now is trying to come to turns...

Leaves of Grass - a poetry collection, with poems loosely connected. With one exception, the poems do not rhyme or follow...

Orlando (1928) describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key...

Although the two parts are now published as a single work, Don Quixote, Part Two was a sequel published ten years after the...

Don Quixote fully titled The history of the valorous and wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. It has been translated,...

Macbeth was written between 1606 and 1607. It is one of the most famous tragedies of Shakespeare. It is based on story of one of...

Penguin Island (1908) is a satirical fictional history, beginning with Christian missionary monk landing on the island. Mostly...

"The Moonstone" is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first full length detective novel in the English language....

Following the tradition of modernist novelists, the plot of "To the Lighthouse" (1927) is secondary to its philosophical...

Sister Carrie (1900) tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own...

The story of Kim (1901) unfolds against the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia known...

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, a much acclaimed collection of short semi-comic mystery stories, was first...

"The Scarlet Letter: A Romance" is considered to be Hawthorne's "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the...

"The Shadow Line - a short novel based at sea - was first published in 1916. It depicts the development of a young man upon...

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...