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ReadAnna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina is a Russian novel that begins with a stark observation about families, then plunges into the…
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…
ReadLes Misérables
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo’s opening places the reader squarely in the early nineteenth‑century world of post‑revolutionary…
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…
Four Arthurian Romances
Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century
Four Arthurian Romances gathers the chivalric tales of Chrétien de Troyes, the 12th‑century poet who shaped…
ReadA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s tale is a blend of fantasy fiction, satire, and Arthurian parody, set up from the very first…
ReadOliver 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…
ReadThe Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Mark Twain’s tale is a sprawling historical fiction set in sixteenth‑century London, where the lives of a…
ReadA farewell to arms
Ernest Hemingway
The novel opens on a summer‑time front line where a house overlooks a river, a plain of crops, and distant…
The Monk: A Romance
M. G. Lewis
The Monk is a Gothic romance that blends horror, religious intrigue, and a richly detailed Spanish setting.
ReadAround the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
The novel is an adventure story set in the late‑nineteenth century, opening with a meticulous portrait of…
ReadKing Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Sir Thomas Malory
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is a collected romance that brings together the chief episodes…
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
The opening places the reader amid an Arctic‑type expedition, where a determined professor, his nephew, and…
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The work is an epistolary novel that opens with a series of letters from the sensitive young protagonist,…
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
Jules Verne
The work is a science‑fiction adventure that begins by chronicling a worldwide frenzy over a mysterious,…
ReadA Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
Charles Dickens
This work is Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas,” a Victorian…
The Republic
Plato
Plato’s Republic is a foundational work of classical literature that also functions as an early treatise on…
ReadEl crimen y el castigo
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
El libro se presenta como una novela de intriga psicológica ambientada en la San Petersburgo del siglo XIX,…
Plutarch's Morals
Plutarch
Plutarch’s Morals is a philosophical dialogue that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical exchange between a…
ReadThe Enchiridion
Epictetus
The Enchiridion is a compact manual of Stoic moral philosophy attributed to the 1st‑century teacher…
Don Quijote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
The work is a first‑person adventure narrative that begins with a detailed autobiographical preface.