Life in the Eagle's Nest: A tale of Afghanistan

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontë

The work is an autobiographical‑style novel that follows the early life of an orphaned girl in England,…

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

The novel opens with a self‑portrait of its orphaned narrator, Pip, whose very name is a contraction of the…

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

The novel opens in the quiet, well‑kept village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, where the ever‑watchful…

The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Ward Radcliffe

The opening places the reader in 1584 on the banks of the Garonne, where the modest château of Monsieur St.

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

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

Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)

Charles Dickens

The second volume of Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist continues the grim bildungsroman of an orphan boy thrust…