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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...

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of...

Robinson Crusoe, a novel, first published in 1719, tells the story of a castaway who spends thirty years on a remote tropical...

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

Vanity Fair was first published in 1848, with the subtitle A Novel without a Hero, reflecting Thackeray's interest in...

Tender is the Night (1934), tells the story of the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychoanalyst, and his wife,...

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

The War of the Worlds (1898) is a science fiction novel, telling about a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race....

The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896) belongs to the classics of early science fiction. It tells the story of Edward Prendick a...

The Time Machine is a science fiction novel (1895) about time travel by way of using a vehicle that allowed its operator to...

Romeo and Juliet, continuing the tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity, tells the story of two young...

Shakespeare's Sonnets, first published in a 1609, is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets, which covers themes such as the...