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Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy3.10
Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, five aristocratic families in Russia are transformed by the vagaries of life,...
While celebrated for his enduring adventure novels , Robert Louis Stevenson also possessed a profound and deeply personal ...
Having spent his life roving faraway seas, Peyrol returns to his birthplace on the French coast to retire on a small fortu...
Edward is a successful businessman and president of a bank—but his success is founded on a secret that leaves him haunted ...
Born to a family of humble origins near Macau, Yung Wing was educated in an English-language mission school. As a teenager...
Set on an island off the Scottish coast, To the Lighthouse
When Fred Merrit, a wealthy and light-skinned black lawyer, decides to move into an exclusively white neighborhood in Manh...
With Thomas Cromwell fallen and her rival’s schemes in ruins, Katharine Howard stands at the summit of Tudor power as Henr...
Sun Tzu’s ancient treatise on the art of war has exerted enormous influence over both Asian and Western soldiers, covering...
Founding father Alexander Hamilton is enticed into an extramarital affair by Mrs. Reynolds, perhaps with the connivance of...
Dr. Wortle, village rector and headmaster, needs a respectable married couple to serve as assistant master and matron of t...
New Yorker Sally Nicholas turns twenty one, comes into an inheritance, and bids her boardinghouse and ballroom dance life ...
Saïd is a fisherman who has carefully saved up a small fortune to buy a coffeehouse. He imagines this to be the start of h...
Georges Duroy returns to Paris from military service in Algeria penniless. After meeting up with an old friend, he finds j...
Dmitri Karamazov and his father Fyodor are at war over both Dmitri’s inheritance and the affections of the beautiful Grush...
Jonathan Mansel, leader of the Blind Corner expedition, has been robbed; but they’ve taken none of the money in his safe—j...
“George Eliot” was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the greatest of English novelists of the Victorian era. Her long...
The unnamed narrator of The Nature of a Crime
Returning from Liverpool, Mr. Earnshaw brings with him a dirty, ragged, black-haired child called Heathcliff, and sets int...
Everyone’s familiar with Lewis Carroll’s famous children’s classic and the huge influence it’s had on modern culture. The ...
“Call me Ishmael” says Moby Dick2.70
Mary Shelley (then Godwin) and Percy Bysshe Shelley were visiting their friend Lord Byron in Geneva one rainy summer. With...
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus was the model of what we call a philosopher-king. Though his rule was tro...
In 1898 Joshua Slocum completed the first solo circumnavigation of the earth. His voyage in his thirty-six foot sailboat <...
Isaac Asimov’s reputation precedes him; his prolific output of science fiction novels and short stories between the 1940s ...
James Joyce’s most celebrated novel, and one of the most highly regarded novels in the English language, records the event...
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John, a man who has spent the last thirty years in Tibet recovering from a head injury and totally unaware of his surround...
Thibault, a French shoemaker in his mid twenties, has his craft and the possibility of marriage with Agnelette, but he’s u...
