In the same year that it was released in its entirety in book form (three volumes), Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles was first serialized in bowdlerized form in the Graphic (July–Decembe..
Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence came out in 1920. The book paints a portrait of late 19th-century upper-class life in New York City. The novel presents itself as an anthropological examinat..
In this tale, we follow miss Morning Glory, a little Japanese girl who travels around the United States with her affluent uncle. Miss Morning Glory is only eighteen years old, but she often comes acro..
Everything from weapons to environmental factors to military strategy to rank and discipline in China's armed forces in the fifth century BC are covered in this book. Sun also emphasized the value of ..
James Weldon Johnson's novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, came out in 1912. This unidentified, mixed-race protagonist's fictitious autobiography delves into the complexities of racial iden..
Author Kate Chopin's 1899 masterpiece The Awakening. The story, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is about a young mother's fight for sexual and personal freedom in the segregated South after the Civ..
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–80; The Brothers Karamazov) is Dostoyevsky's final and arguably best work. It explores many of the author's favorite philosophical and theological topics, including the or..
In 1903, The Saturday Evening Post serialized Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild, and that same year, Macmillan & Co. released the novel in a single volume. It has received more attention and sa..
This is a novel about political awakening and romantic awakening, set on the estate of a Bengali noble in the year 1908. Bimala, the protagonist, is divided between her responsibilities to her husband..
Originally published in Russian as Idiot in 1868-69, The Idiot is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The "primitive" Prince Myshkin causes unease among the refined, traditional Yepanchin family and their ..
The famous Greek warrior Achilles and his wrath and destruction are the focus of the Iliad. The plot also follows Hector, a Trojan warrior, as he fights to defend his home and people...
A mysterious and dangerous visitor wearing bandages and odd apparel shows up in a sleepy English village one night during the dead of winter. Strange and mysterious things he does in his rented room g..
H.G. Wells's 1896 science fiction classic The Island of Doctor Moreau. This timeless work explores themes of evolution and ethics through the lens of a mad scientist's vivisection experiments...
Read the Complete Robinson Crusoe Robinson Crusoe, a mariner from York, describes his life and the strange and surprising events that transpired during his eighteen years on an uninhabited island off ..
In 1868, Wilkie Collins released The Moonstone, one of the earliest English detective novels.
The precious Indian moonstone is stolen by a lowlife Englishman. Each English person who has it will be..