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Ulysses

James Joyce

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then published in its enti...

The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton

The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that ye...

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov (Russian: Бра́тья Карама́зовы, Brat'ya Karamazovy), also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevs...

This Side of Paradise

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book examines the lives and morality of American youth in the aftermath of World War I. Its protagonist Amor...

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic co...

Japanische Geister und Naturwesen

Lafcadio Hearn

In Japan war die Welt allenthalben belebt von Naturwesen, die dort yôkai heißen. Solch ein Wesen ist etwa der Hai, den ein Mann auf einer Brücke trifft und der verzweifelt ist, weil er aus dem...

Smásagnasafn: Davíð Þorvaldsson

Davíð Þorvaldsson

Smásögurnar í þessu safni eftir Davíðs Þorvaldsson eru: Björn formaður, Árni munkur, Skógarinn litli frá Villefranche-sur-mer, Veðmálið, Skólabræðurnir og Úr dagbók vinar, en b...

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet is a detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. A Study in Scarlet marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most f...

A Voyage to Arcturus

David Lindsay

A Voyage to Arcturus is a classic science fiction novel by David Lindsay. If you're interested in science fiction but crave something with a little more intellectual heft than your typical ...

Allan Quatermain

H. Rider Haggard

Allan Quatermain is a classic adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard. The character Allan Quatermain is the hero of H. Rider Haggard's novel King Solomon's Mines. In this adventure novel n...

All's Well That Ends Well

William Shakespeare

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. Helena, the low-born ward of a Spanish countess, is in love with the countess' son Bertram, who is indifferent to her. Bertra...

Ann Veronica

H. G. Wells

Ann Veronica is a classic romance novel by H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells' Ann Veronica looks at political and feminist issues of the time. It's heroine goes from being a naive young gi...

813

Maurice Leblanc

Master criminal Arsene Lupin is at it again in the taut thriller 813. When Lupin is framed for murder, the famed thief enters the fray of the investigation in an attempt to clear his name and ...

A Hunger Artist

Franz Kafka

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë

Agnes Grey is a classic fiction novel by Anne Bronte. Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin. Agnes decides to take up one of the only professions available to ...

Animal Ghosts

Elliott O'Donnell

Animal Ghosts is a classic fiction novel by Elliott O'Donnell. Animal Ghosts is a collection of ghost stories in which the antagonists are various animals. Divided up into chapters of...

A Martian Odyssey

Stanley Weinbaum

A Martian Odyssey is a science fiction short story by Stanley Weinbaum. It was Weinbaum's second published story and remains his best known. Early in the 21st century, nearly twenty years a...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephe...

A Princess of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

A Princess of Mars is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th-cen...

A Room With a View

E. M. Forster

A Room with a View is a novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and ...