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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...

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...

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...

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'...