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A Room with a View

E. M. Forster

The opening of *A Room with a View* places the reader amid a noisy dinner table in a Florentine pension,…

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The book is a humorous, coming‑of‑age adventure that follows Huck Finn as he slips away from the Widow…

History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Henry Fielding

The work is a comic, eighteenth‑century novel that treats the growth of a young man from foundling to adult…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Mark Twain

The work is a humorous bildungsroman that follows the misadventures of Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy in a…

Emma

Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse is introduced as a handsome, clever, and wealthy young woman whose life has been marked by…

Torchy and Vee

Sewell Ford

Torchy and Vee is a collection of short, humor‑tinged stories set against the backdrop of World War I…