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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is a novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River, set in the fictional...

Three Men in a Boat, first published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames, taken by three...

Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set some six months later than the...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, first published in 1865, tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a...

Treasure Island, first published in 1883, is an adventure novel, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". It is...

New Arabian Nights, first published in 1882, is a collection of short stories, containing Stevenson's first published fiction,...

Great Expectations, published in 1861, is the author's penultimate completed novel; narrated in the first person, it depicts the...

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

Jacobs published his English Foiiy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairytales in 1894 but also went on after and in between both...

Emma, first published in 1815, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels,...

Pride and Prejudice, first published in 1813 tells the story of the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of...

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

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

Dubliners, a collection of fifteen short stories, first published in 1914, form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class...

Why Does Voltaire's Candide Endure?
Voltaire's masterpiece of satire Candide was written between July and December 1758 and...

Call me lshmael." So begins the famous opening chapter of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. Young sailor lshmael is hired as a crew...

Three teenage boys, the sole survivors of a shipwreck, find themselves marooned on a deserted island in the South Pacific. With...

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a...

Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies'...

If my poor Flatland friend retained the vigour of mind which he enjoyed when he began to compose these Memoirs, I should not now...

Etienne Gerard is a hero of the French army, a veteran of the Napoleonic wars, and a vain and boastful teller of tales that star...

Undine is the name of the water maiden whose story you will read as you turn the leaves of this little book.
Undine is beautiful...

They were the literary phenomenon of their time: The Wavеrly novels, 48 volumes set in fanciful re-creations of the Scottish...

They were the literary phenomenon of their time: The Waverly novels, 48 volumes set in fanciful re-creations of the Scottish...

Wilhelm Hauff was a writer of extraordinary fancy and invention, but working for a more obvious purpose, and producing narratives...

No literature can produce a more original writer than Ernst Thcodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776-1822), a German Romantic author of...

Mark Twain is one of the world's most beloved authors. His classic tales of Tom Sawyer and his good friend Huckleberry Finn have...

They have success, money, charisma, and drive. They have looks that could kill, and murderously strong wills. But for some men,...

You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and...

Rotterham Home was a hospice for young people, a place where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die. Nobody who checked in...