Revenge -- Fiction books

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,…

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

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

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

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

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…

The Cask of Amontillado

Edgar Allan Poe

The story is a compact horror tale that opens with a narrator’s cold confession of a long‑held grudge against…

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome I

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Ce premier tome du Comte de Monte‑Cristo se présente comme une fresque d’aventures et de drames maritimes,…

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Victory: An Island Tale

Joseph Conrad

Il Conte di Monte-Cristo

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau

Honoré de Balzac

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome IV

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The Beetle: A Mystery

Richard Marsh

The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01

Lew Wallace

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome II

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The day will come: A Novel

M. E. Braddon

Le comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome III

Dumas, Alexandre; Maquet, Auguste

The Master of Ballantrae: A Winter's Tale

Robert Louis Stevenson

Space Viking

H. Beam Piper

Colomba

Prosper Mérimée

Basil

Wilkie Collins

Bardelys the Magnificent Being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...

Rafael Sabatini

Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller

Dana, Marvin; Veiller, Bayard

Facing the Flag

Jules Verne