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ReadFrankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
This work is a blend of science‑fiction, horror, and Gothic fiction, introduced through a series of…
ReadPride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The novel is a domestic fiction set in England that follows the intertwined lives of the Bennet sisters as…
ReadRomeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
The work is a dramatic tragedy set in Verona, where two noble families, the Capulets and the Montagues, are…
ReadThe strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
The work is a Victorian‑era blend of science‑fiction and horror, set in a fog‑shrouded London where a lawyer…
ReadAlice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll’s tale is a fantasy adventure aimed at juvenile readers, introducing the curious girl Alice as…
ReadA 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,…
ReadThe Complete Works of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare gathers the full range of the playwright’s English drama from the…
ReadMiddlemarch
George Eliot
Middlemarch is a didactic work of fiction that weaves together the ordinary rhythms of English town and…
ReadJane Eyre: An Autobiography
Charlotte Brontë
The work is an autobiographical‑style novel that follows the early life of an orphaned girl in England,…
ReadThe Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde’s *The Importance of Being Earnest* is a comedy of manners set in late‑Victorian England,…
ReadDracula
Bram Stoker
The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a series of journal entries from the English solicitor…
ReadWuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
The novel opens as a framed narrative, with the newcomer Mr.
ReadThe Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The novel opens with a sprawling preface in which Oscar Wilde lays out his aesthetic creed, insisting that…
ReadThe Enchanted April
Elizabeth Von Arnim
The novel opens in a London women’s club on a bleak February afternoon, where the modest Mrs Wilkins, a shy…
ReadThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
The work is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, that places the famed…
ReadThe Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete
T. Smollett
The work is a sprawling gothic‑tinged adventure that presents its narrative as a catalogue of episodes, each…
ReadA Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
The novel is a historical fiction set against the turbulence of the French Revolution and its echo in…
ReadThe Expedition of Humphry Clinker
T. Smollett
The work is an epistolary comedy that opens with a series of letters written by a nameless narrator to…
ReadCranford
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford is a gentle, village‑scale portrait of English life, centred on a community of older women who…
ReadHistory 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…
ReadThe Adventures of Roderick Random
T. Smollett
The work is a picaresque satire that follows the life of Roderick Random, a North‑British orphan whose…
ReadThe Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End
Henry James
The work is a late‑nineteenth‑century English novel that blends domestic drama with a subtle undercurrent of…
ReadA Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” is a single‑page pamphlet first published in 1729 that frames a shocking…
ReadGreat Expectations
Charles Dickens
The novel opens with a self‑portrait of its orphaned narrator, Pip, whose very name is a contraction of the…