Novels

The Secret of Chimneys

Agatha Christie

The Secret of Chimneys opens as a lively, if slightly rambling, tableau of British expatriates and their…

Pitt und Fox, die Liebeswege der Brüder Sintrup: Roman

Friedrich Huch

Der Roman „Pitt und Fox, die Liebeswege der Brüder Sintrup“ von Friedrich Huch ist ein psychologisch…

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…

Dracula

Bram Stoker

The novel is an epistolary horror that begins with a vivid, almost cinematic report of a ferocious storm…

The Green Mummy

Fergus Hume

The Green Mummy is a late‑Victorian detective tale that opens in the wake of a murder that has already been…

The 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…

Anna 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…

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

Maurice Leblanc

The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman‑Burglar is a collection of French short stories that…

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness is a psychological novella that places its concerns squarely in the realm of imperialist…

The 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…

That 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…

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s opening places the reader squarely in the early nineteenth‑century world of post‑revolutionary…

A 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…

Oliver 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…

A 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 Sex Life of the Gods

M. E. Knerr

The opening of The Sex Life of the Gods drops the reader straight into a high‑octane blend of science‑fiction…

The Monk: A Romance

M. G. Lewis

The Monk is a Gothic romance that blends horror, religious intrigue, and a richly detailed Spanish setting.

Around 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…

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…

Henrietta Temple: A Love Story

Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Henrietta Temple is a self‑styled autobiographical romance by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, that…

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,…

Kåtornas folk

Ester Blenda Nordström

Boken är en skildring av en vinterlig resa i den lappländska vildmarken, där författaren Ester Blenda…

That Girl Montana

Marah Ellis Ryan

That Girl Montana is a Western tale set in the rugged Kootenai Valley at the turn of the twentieth‑century,…