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ReadBeowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
This edition presents the Old English heroic saga Beowulf in a modern English translation that strives to…
ReadTreasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island is a sea‑story that begins not on a distant island but in the modest…
ReadUlysses
James Joyce
James Joyce’s Ulysses is a densely layered work of literary fiction that foregrounds city and town life,…
ReadSense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
The novel opens with a detailed account of the Dashwood family’s long‑standing estate in Sussex, introducing…
ReadThe Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a detective‑mystery story that begins in the familiar setting of 1880s…
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
The work is a Victorian detective story that begins with a first‑person account from a wounded army surgeon…
ReadThe String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.
Rymer, James Malcolm; Prest, Thomas Peckett
The work is a lurid blend of historical fiction and horror, set in late‑eighteenth‑century London where the…
The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
Mary Wollstonecraft
The volume presents the intimate correspondence between Mary Wollstonecraft, the pioneering 18th‑century…
ReadGulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
Jonathan Swift
The work is a satirical travel narrative that presents itself as the manuscript of Lemuel Gulliver, a retired…
ReadThe 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.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance
Lucas Malet
The novel unfolds as a densely layered domestic drama set in the early nineteenth‑century English…
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ReadPeter Pan: [Peter and Wendy]
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan is a fantasy adventure that begins with a whimsical meditation on childhood and the inevitability…
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice is a domestic fiction set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, focusing on the marriage…
ReadThe Secret of Chimneys
Agatha Christie
The Secret of Chimneys opens as a lively, if slightly rambling, tableau of British expatriates and their…
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.
The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
The opening places us in a cramped Victorian drawing‑room where a group of acquaintances huddle around a…
ReadDracula
Bram Stoker
The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a vivid, almost cinematic report of a ferocious storm…
ReadThe Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday is a hybrid of fantasy, detective intrigue, and philosophical allegory set against a…
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
The novel is a social comedy of manners set in early‑nineteenth‑century England, where the lives of young…
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness is a psychological novella that places its concerns squarely in the realm of imperialist…
ReadThe Complete Project Gutenberg Works of Jane Austen A Linked Index of all PG Editions of Jane Austen
Jane Austen
This volume is not a novel but a comprehensive index that gathers every Jane Austen work made available…
ReadThat Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day
Richard Dehan
Richard Dehan’s novel, set against the backdrop of the First World War, opens in a lavish dining room where a…
A Honeymoon in Space
George Chetwynd Griffith
A science‑fiction adventure set in the early twentieth‑century imagination, A Honeymoon in Space follows the…
ReadChaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
This volume presents Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as a freshly collated text, distinct from the many…