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The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Bleak House is a sprawling Victorian novel that begins amid a relentless rainstorm on the desolate estate of…

Amabel Channice

Anne Douglas Sedgwick

The novel opens in the austere drawing‑room of Charlock House, where Lady Amabel Channice watches her son…

The sound and the fury

William Faulkner

The novel is a work of psychological and domestic fiction set in Mississippi, focusing on a family’s tangled…

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure is a Victorian novel that frames its story as a “didactic” meditation on…

Howards End

E. M. Forster

The novel opens with a vivid, almost breathless description of a modest red‑brick house and its surrounding…

Adam Bede

George Eliot

George Eliot’s opening places the reader in a bustling rural workshop on a summer day in 1799, introducing a…

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter presents itself as a richly layered work that weaves together themes of adultery, revenge,…

Charlotte Temple

Mrs. Rowson

The work presents itself as a moral tale aimed at young women, explicitly framed as a “Tale of Truth” meant…

Howards End

E. M. Forster

East Lynne

Mrs. Henry Wood

Sinister Street, vol. 1

Compton MacKenzie

Clotelle; Or, The Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; Or, The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown

Sinister Street, vol. 2

Compton MacKenzie

Mr. Wu Based on the Play "Mr. Wu" by H. M. Vernon and Harold Owen

Miln, Louise Jordan; Owen, Harold; Vernon, Harry M.

A Spirit in Prison

Robert Hichens

To the Last Man

Zane Grey

The Dead Secret: A Novel

Wilkie Collins

El abuelo (Novela en cinco jornadas)

Benito Pérez Galdós

Clotel; Or, The President's Daughter

William Wells Brown

Sämtliche Werke 7-8: Der Jüngling

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

La letra escarlata novela escrita en inglés

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jack 1877

Alphonse Daudet

Jenny

Sigrid Undset