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Rilla of Ingleside
Fifteen-year-old Rilla, the daughter of Anne Shirley Blythe, grows from a carefree, irresponsible girl into a strong and capable young woman during the war years, 1914-1918.
The Blithedale Romance
A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow.
The Pickwick Papers
Dickens’ first novel was originally written and published as a serial.
Barchester Towers
*The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 2: Barchester Towers* Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York.
The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year out and a New Year In
The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year out and a New Year In by Charles Dickens and Richard Doyle and William Clarkson Stanfield and Sajad Hussain and Oscar Ellis and Michael Clay Thompson explores classic literature, social life and customs,…
Tanglewood Tales
Tanglewood Tales uses the Greek classics as its source. Nathaniel Hawthorne has taken the most striking and exciting ones and adapted them for children. From the original stories he has selected episodes that illustrate conceptions held by the original…
Bleak House
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of…
Mosses from an old manse
"The Old Manse" (1846) Birth-Mark (1843) "A Select Party" (1844) Young Goodman Brown (1835) "Rappaccini's Daughter" (1844) "Mrs.
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky’s crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide and family rivalry that embodies the moral and spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s).
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.
Chronicles of Avonlea
Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery explores love, japanese language materials, history.
Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection first published in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The Financier: A Novel
The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser, based on real-life streetcar tycoon Charles Yerkes.
The Titan
Frank Algernon Cowperwood, the central character of Theodore Dreiser's previous work "The Financier," is now out of the Eastern District Penitentiary of Philadelphia.
The Warden
*The Chronicles of Barsetshire*, Book 1: *The Warden* The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a Church-run almshouse for elderly men.
The American Claimant
The American Claimant by Mark Twain explores social life and customs, american literature, mistaken identity.
Dombey and Son
Dombey and Son is both a firm and a family and the ambiguous connection between public and private life lies at the heart of Dickens' novel.
Framley Parsonage
*The Chronicles of Barsetshire*, Book 4: *Framley Parsonage* When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an…
The Satyricon — Complete
An incomplete Roman novel believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius Arbiter.
The Black Robe
The Black Robe by Wilkie Collins explores classic literature, mystery, priesthood.
Plain Tales from the Hills
Originally written for the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, the stories were intended for a provincial readership familiar with the pleasures and miseries of colonial life.
McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors' coffee-joint on Polk Street.