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The Inferno The Inferno v1.0

You, my love, will be poor, so as to be more like all other women. In order for us to live together I shall work all day and so be your servant.

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge v1.0

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge opens with the story's hero, Peyton Farquhar, hanging bound from a bridge, awaiting hanging.

Agnes Grey Agnes Grey v1.0

Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin.

My Antonia My Antonia v1.0

My Antonia, first published 1918, is one of Willa Cather's greatest works.

O Pioneers! O Pioneers! v1.0

A Swedish family migrate to Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century.

The Secret Sharer The Secret Sharer v1.0

The Secret Sharer contains many of Conrad's favorite motifs.

Eugenie Grandet Eugenie Grandet v1.0

A daughter inherits her father's miserliness, which stifles her relationship with her cousin, making love an unsatisfying experience.

Pierre and Jean Pierre and Jean v1.0

Pierre and Jean is a short realist novel by Guy de Maupassant.

The Chessmen of Mars The Chessmen of Mars v1.0

The fifth book in the popular Barsoom series, The Chessmen of Mars is a 1922 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The Absentee The Absentee v1.0

On the eve of his coming of age, a young Lord begins to see the truth of his parents' lives.

Adam Bede Adam Bede v1.0

Adam Bede follows the lives of a fictional rural community.

Jude the Obscure Jude the Obscure v1.0

Thomas Hardy's final novel Jude the Obscure explores notions of class, religion, marriage and modernization through its protagonist Jude Fawley, a working-class man who dreams of being a scholar.

The Ambassadors The Ambassadors v1.0

One of Henry James' greatest novels, The Ambassadors is a dark comedy from 1903.

Greenmantle Greenmantle v1.0

British writer John Buchan's Greenmantle is the second of five adventure novels to star Richard Hannay, a man with a remarkable knack for getting out of sticky situations, and indeed getting into them in the first place.

The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu v1.0

This first novel in Sax Rohmer's series, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu combined together previously written short stories into a single story about the dealings of this criminal mastermind.

Trilby Trilby v1.0

Trilby (1894) is a gothic horror novel by George du Maurier and one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker's Dracula.

The Mill on the Floss The Mill on the Floss v1.0

George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, orginally published in 1860 as three volumes, tells of the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver as they grow up upon the River Floss.

Charlotte Temple Charlotte Temple v1.0

Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple became a huge seller in America from its first publication there in 1794, subsequently going through over two hundred editions.

Cranford Cranford v1.0

Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell.

Mary Barton Mary Barton v1.0

The first novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton was published in 1848.