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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'...

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...

One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years' service a man is directly or...

Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) discovered early in his literary career a fascination with...

Bless me! reader, gentle or simple, or whatever you be, how impatiently by this time must you expect this preface, supposing it...