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The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island was first released in 1874 as part of his best-selling science fiction series Voyages extraordinaires (1863-1910) and was originally published in French as L'Île my..
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The Painted Veil
The story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane, set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s. Her adulterous spouse drags her to the epicenter of a cholera epidemic after discovering her indiscre..
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The Phantom of the Opera
The opera building in Paris is "haunted" by a beautiful and enigmatic spirit in this novel. Everything goes wrong for the opera when the Phantom develops romantic feelings for the soprano Christine Da..
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Anthony Hope's novel, The Prisoner of Zenda, first out in 1894. The English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll, now residing in Ruritania, must assume the guise of the king to foil a plot against his monarch..
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The Red House Mystery
Author A.A. Milne's famous mystery The Red House Mystery takes place in a grand British mansion and features a slew of memorable characters and intriguing clues. Antony Gillingham and his friend Bill ..
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter was first released in 1850. It's a great work of American literature and a masterpiece in its own right...
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The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent, also known as The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale, is a novel written by Joseph Conrad and initially published in 1906 and 1907 as a serial in the New York weekly Ridgeway's. The story's..
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan, a Scotsman, wrote the adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps. After appearing in installments in All-Story Weekly and Blackwood's Magazine, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, released ..
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The Time Machine
First novel by H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, came out in book form in 1895. The book was a pioneer in the "time travel" subgenre of science fiction and is widely regarded as a classic of the genre...
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The War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells's science fiction novel The War of the Worlds was initially serialized in the British publication Pearson's Magazine and the American publication The Cosmopolitan in 1897. The novel depicts..
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White first appeared in serial form in All the Year Round between November 1859 and July 1860, and then in book form the following year. Collins's work was so well r..
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Originally published in French as Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers in 1869–70, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a novel by Jules Verne. This volume in his science fiction series Voyages extrao..
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Originally published in serial form in the United States in 1851 and 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was released in book form the following year. It was a huge success as an abolition..
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Vanity Fair
William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, set in early 19th-century England, was first released in monthly sections in 1847 and 1848, and as a complete book the following year. Vanity Fair was ..
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