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...

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...

Le Petit Prince est une oeuvre la plus connue de Saint-Exupery. Publie en 1943 a New York simultanement a sa traduction anglaise,...

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...