Lockwood, in the late winter of 1801, hires a manor house in England s remote moor country called Thrushcross Grange. Here, he meets Heathcliff, his gloomy landlord, a wealthy man who resides in the h..
Leo Tolstoy s Anna Karenina, originally published in installments, is a massive, intricate novel about Imperial Russia and its many characters. The plot revolves around the protagonist Anna Karenina a..
Fyodor Dostoyevsky s Crime and Punishment (Russian: Prestupleniye i nakazaniye) was published for the first time in 1866. Raskolnikov, a penniless ex-student who believes he is an extraordinary person..
Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens that was initially released in book form in 1861 but appeared as a serial in All the Year Round between 1860 and 1861. The novel is widely regarded as ..
Published under the pseudonym Currer Bell in 1847, Charlotte Bront s Jane Eyre was originally titled Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. In its realistic portrayal of a woman s inner life, emphasizing her ba..
Elizabeth Bennet, the daughter of a rural gentleman, and Fitzwilliam Darcy, a wealthy aristocratic landowner, have a tumultuous relationship throughout Pride and Prejudice. In order for them to find l..
A young man named Edmond Dantès is wrongly convicted of treason and imprisoned on an island stronghold in "The Count of Monte Cristo," a classic adventure tale illustrated by Alexandre Dumas...
Originally published in the April 1923 issue of The Sketch in the United Kingdom, The Plymouth Express is one of Agatha Christie s short stories. The Blue Book Magazine in the United States published ..
The protagonist Charlie Roberts in "The Romance of Lust" has an insatiable sexual hunger that he developed from early sexual interactions with his siblings, governesses, and subsequently acquaintances..
Huckleberry Finn s Adventures, alternatively titled The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel written by Mark Twain that was first released in 1884 in the UK and 1885 in the US. Huckleberry Finn,..
Published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and in New York City a month later as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is Herman Melville s novel Moby Dick. Nathaniel Hawthorne is honoured with this publicat..
The complex relationship between a brother and sister is one of the reasons why The Mill in the Floss is considered Eliot s most personal novel. It s about a girl who wants to break free of the constr..
Leo Tolstoy s epic historical novel War and Peace appeared in Russian as Voyna i mir between 1865 and 1869. As a comprehensive look of Russian society in the early 19th century, this novel is widely c..
Lewis Carroll s 1865 children s novel Alice in Wonderland is a British classic. One of the most read books ever written in English, because to its imaginative stories and puzzles. John Tenniel, a famo..
The lynching of Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis in 1672, the equivalent of the Dutch Prime Minister, opens The Black Tulip. Cornelius van Baerle, a horticulturist, enters a competition to culti..