Dragon's teeth: A novel from the Portuguese

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s *The Scarlet Letter* is a work of historical and psychological fiction that foregrounds…

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is a Russian novel that begins with a stark observation about families, then plunges into the…

The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

Kate Chopin

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories is a late‑19th‑century work that places its characters in the…

Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a domestic novel that foregrounds the lives of a provincial French middle‑class family, with…

Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s “Two on a Tower” unfolds as a tightly wound episode of didactic fiction, set against the…

Madame Bovary: A Tale of Provincial Life, Vol. 1 (of 2)

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary is a domestic novel that immerses the reader in the provincial world of a French middle‑class…