Roderick, the last of the Goths: A tragic poem

Twenty years after

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a sprawling historical novel set in the turbulent years of Louis XIV’s early reign, where the…

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

The novel is a historical fiction set against the turbulence of the French Revolution and its echo in…

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

The novel opens in a July evening of 1805, inside the drawing‑room of Anna Pávlovna Schérer, a well‑connected…

The Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott

The work is an Arthurian romance by Sir Walter Scott, presented as the fifth canto of a larger poem.

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s opening places the reader squarely in the early nineteenth‑century world of post‑revolutionary…

Four Arthurian Romances

Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

Four Arthurian Romances gathers the chivalric tales of Chrétien de Troyes, the 12th‑century poet who shaped…