Novels

The Adventures of Roderick Random

T. Smollett

The work is a picaresque satire that follows the life of Roderick Random, a North‑British orphan whose…

The 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…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Mark Twain

The work is a humorous bildungsroman that follows the misadventures of Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy in a…

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

The novel opens with a self‑portrait of its orphaned narrator, Pip, whose very name is a contraction of the…

Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler: Roman

Norbert Jacques

Der Roman führt uns in die schummrige Welt eines exklusiven Spielklubs, wo ein rätselhaft eleganter Fremder –…

Treasure 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…

Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Metamorphosis is a work of psychological fiction that begins with a startling, almost clinical description of…

Ulysses

James Joyce

James Joyce’s Ulysses is a densely layered work of literary fiction that foregrounds city and town life,…

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel opens with a detailed account of the Dashwood family’s long‑standing estate in Sussex, introducing…

The 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…

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra

Gaston Leroux

Ce roman s’inscrit dans le croisement du récit d’horreur, de la fiction musicale et du drame parisien du XIXᵉ…

Anne of Green Gables

L. M. Montgomery

The novel opens in the quiet, well‑kept village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, where the ever‑watchful…

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s *The Scarlet Letter* is a work of historical and psychological fiction that foregrounds…

The 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…

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

The novel opens in a July evening of 1805, inside the drawing‑room of Anna Pávlovna Schérer, a well‑connected…

Gulliver'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…

Millionen; Der Tod des Iwan Lande: Zwei Novellen

M. Artsybashev

Der Band enthält zwei Novellen von M. Artsybaschews, die das Leben im zaristischen Russland aus einer…

The 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…

Peter 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…

Carmen

Prosper Mérimée

Prosper Mérimée’s Carmen is a short‑fiction work that sketches 19th‑century Spanish social life through the…

Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie

Thomas Mann

Der Roman „Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie“ ist ein Familiendrama, das im 19.