Novels

Frankenstein; Or, the Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This work is a blend of science‑fiction, horror, and Gothic fiction, introduced through a series of…

Moby Dick; Or, The Whale

Herman Melville

The novel is a sprawling sea‑faring adventure that folds whaling lore, psychological tension, and biblical…

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The novel is a domestic fiction set in England that follows the intertwined lives of the Bennet sisters as…

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This volume is a psychological detective story set in nineteenth‑century Saint Petersburg, where the…

The 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…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll’s tale is a fantasy adventure aimed at juvenile readers, introducing the curious girl Alice as…

A 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,…

The 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,…

The Blue Castle: A Novel

L. M. Montgomery

The novel follows Valancy Stirling, a twenty‑nine‑year‑old single woman living in a small Canadian town in…

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Middlemarch is a didactic work of fiction that weaves together the ordinary rhythms of English town and…

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel is a psychological study set among the affluent circles of Long Island, exploring first loves,…

Little 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…

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontë

The work is an autobiographical‑style novel that follows the early life of an orphaned girl in England,…

Adventures 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…

Dracula

Bram Stoker

The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a series of journal entries from the English solicitor…

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

The novel opens as a framed narrative, with the newcomer Mr.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

The novel opens with a sprawling preface in which Oscar Wilde lays out his aesthetic creed, insisting that…

Twenty years after

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The work is a sprawling historical novel set in the turbulent years of Louis XIV’s early reign, where the…

The 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…

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The novel opens with a detailed portrait of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a land‑owner whose reputation in the…

The 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…

The 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…

Cranford

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Cranford is a gentle, village‑scale portrait of English life, centred on a community of older women who…

History 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…