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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…
ReadMoby Dick; Or, The Whale
Herman Melville
The novel is a sprawling sea‑faring adventure that folds whaling lore, psychological tension, and biblical…
ReadPride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The novel is a domestic fiction set in England that follows the intertwined lives of the Bennet sisters as…
ReadCrime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
This volume is a psychological detective story set in nineteenth‑century Saint Petersburg, where the…
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…
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…
ReadThe Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste
The opening of this work places the reader squarely in the bustling port of Marseilles in early 1815,…
ReadMiddlemarch
George Eliot
Middlemarch is a didactic work of fiction that weaves together the ordinary rhythms of English town and…
ReadThe Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The novel is a psychological study set among the affluent circles of Long Island, exploring first loves,…
ReadLittle Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Louisa May Alcott
The novel is an autobiographical‑style domestic fiction that follows the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth 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,…
ReadAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The book is a humorous, coming‑of‑age adventure that follows Huck Finn as he slips away from the Widow…
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…
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The novel opens with a detailed portrait of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a land‑owner whose reputation in the…
ReadA Doll's House : A Play
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is a three‑act domestic drama that opens in a modestly furnished winter living…
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…
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…
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…
The Confessions of St. Augustine
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint
The work is a first‑person spiritual autobiography by Augustine of Hippo, the fourth‑century bishop and…