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Don Quixote

The two parts of the novel Don Quixote, written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes, were published in 1605 and 1615, respectively. Part 1 is titled "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quijote of La Mancha,"..

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Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones, was an American author best known for her stories and novels depicting the upper-class society into which she was born (born January 24, 1862, New York, New Yor..

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Frankenstein

The protagonist of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein is the archetypal "mad scientist" who constructs a creature that ultimately brings about his demise. One of the most well-known mons..

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Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in 1899 and then appeared in Conrad's Youth: and Two Other Stories in 1902. Heart of Darkness explores t..

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Herland

The utopian book Herland was published in 1915 and was written by American feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the novel, a society separated from the outside world is made up solely of women who re..

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His Masterpiece

The novel L'oeuvre, written by Émile Zola, is the fourteenth installment in the Rougon-Macquart series. Beginning in December 1885, it was serialised in the magazine Gil Blas, and by 1886, Charpentier..

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Jacob's Room

In 1922, Virginia Woolf published her novel Jacob's Room. It's experimental in style and revolves around the protagonist, Jacob Flanders, a solitary young man who struggles to reconcile his passion fo..

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Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary, novel by Gustave Flaubert, serialized in the Revue de Paris in 1856 and then published in two volumes the following year. Flaubert transformed a commonplace story of adultery into an en..

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Mansfield Park

Jane Austen's Mansfield Park was released in 1814 in three volumes. It is the most serious of Austen's novels in terms of tone and subject matter (religion and religious responsibility). Fanny Price, ..

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Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel. Clarissa Dalloway is a well-off Londoner who is married to a politician, and the book follows a day in her life. There isn't much of a plot in Mrs. Dalloway..

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass's autobiography and lengthy discussion of slavery and emancipation is titled Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. The book debuted in print in 1845. Douglass warns of slaver..

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North and South

Published anonymously in serial form in Household Words from 1854 to 1855, and in book form in 1855, North and South was written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell at the request of Charles Dickens. George..

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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey was released after her death in 1817. Originally titled Susan, Northanger Abbey was written in 1798 or 1799 and published in four volumes alongside Persuasion. Richard C..

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Notes from the Underground

Notes from the Underground, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, was first published in 1864 under the Russian title Zapiski iz podpolya. Dostoyevsky's later moral, religious, political, and societal problems have ..

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Notre-Dame de Paris

In it, the lovely gipsy Esmeralda catches the eye of the disfigured bell ringer at Notre Dame Cathedral, Quasimodo. Quasimodo's good intentions are misconstrued when he tries to prevent Esmeralda from..

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