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Metamorphosis
Gregor Samsa wakes to find himself transformed, setting in motion a haunting story of alienation.
The Yellow Wallpaper
A woman confined to a room begins to discover disturbing patterns in its wallpaper.
Siddhartha
A young man’s spiritual journey through asceticism, worldly life, and the quiet wisdom of a river.
Ulysses
An extraordinary journey through a single day in Dublin and the inner lives of its inhabitants.
Don Quixote
A would-be knight and his practical companion set out to bring chivalry back to the world.
Great Expectations
An unexpected fortune changes the life of Pip, a young orphan with dreams of becoming a gentleman.
Little Women
The four March sisters grow up together, navigating ambition, hardship, and love.
The Scarlet Letter
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.
The Secret Garden
A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Hard Times
Dickens scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters.
Dubliners
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories.
David Copperfield
It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood.
The Old Curiosity Shop
The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth.
Anne of Avonlea
Now Anne is half past sixteen and she's ready to begin a new life teaching in her old school.
The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home
One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys.
The House of Mirth
Beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to luxury, Lily Bart is the heroine of this Wharton masterpiece.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master.
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair's dramatic and deeply moving story exposed the brutal conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into sharp moral focus the appalling odds against which immigrants and other working people…
Rainbow Valley
The grown-up Anne of Green Gables, her husband, and their six children live in a special hideaway known as Rainbow Valley.
The Battle of Life
Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought.