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The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings is an epic loftier fantasy novel written by philologist and Oxford University professor J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien'due south earlier, less complex children'...
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

The story follows the life of 1 seemingly insignificant human being, Winston Smith, a civil retainer assigned the task of perpetuating the government'south propaganda by falsifying records and political literatur...
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The book is narrated in free indirect speech following the main character Elizabeth Bennet equally she deals with matters of upbringing, union, moral rightness and education in her aristocratic socie...
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Gear up during the Not bad Depression, the novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers, the Joads, driven from their dwelling house by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agronomics manufacture. In a ...
To Impale a Mockingbird past Harper Lee

As a Southern Gothic novel and a Bildungsroman, the primary themes of To Kill a Mockingbird involve racial injustice and the devastation of innocence. Scholars take noted that Lee too addresses is...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre is a start-person narrative of the title character, a pocket-sized, manifestly-faced, intelligent and honest English language orphan. The novel goes through five singled-out stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The narrative is non-linear, involving several flashbacks, and ii chief narrators: Mr. Lockwood and Ellen "Nelly" Dean. The novel opens in 1801, with Mr. Lockwood arriving at Thrushcross Grange,...
A Passage to India past E. M. Forster

A Passage to India is ready against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. The story revolves around iv characters: Dr. Aziz, his British friend Cyril Fi...
Lord of the Flies past William Golding

Lord of the Flies discusses how culture created past homo fails, using every bit an example a group of British schoolboys stuck on a deserted isle who endeavor to govern themselves, but with disastrous results....
Village by William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Kingdom of denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written betwixt 1599 and 1601. The play, set up in Denmark, recounts how Pri...
A Bend in the River by 5. Southward. Naipaul

In the "brilliant novel" ("The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man--an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come up to alive in an isol...
The Neat Gatsby past F. Scott Fitzgerald

The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age". Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roar...
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye is a 1945 novel by J. D. Salinger. Originally published for adults, the novel has become a common function of high schoolhouse and college curricula throughout the English-speaking wo...
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar is American writer and poet Sylvia Plath'south only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963. The novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of...
Brave New Globe by Aldous Huxley

Ready in the London of Advert 2540 (632 A.F. in the volume), the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and slumber-learning that combine to modify society. The future society is an embod...
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl is a book based on the writings from a diary written by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of holland. The...
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

Alonso Quixano, a retired country gentleman in his fifties, lives in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has get obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes thursday...
The Bible by Christian Church

The Authorized King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and completed in 1611 by the Church of England. Printed by the King's Printer, Robert Barker, the fi...
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

With their astonishing variety of tone and subject affair, The Canterbury Tales have become ane of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modernistic English, these tales of a mo...
Ulysses by James Joyce

Ulysses chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary twenty-four hour period, June 16, 1904. The title parallels and alludes to Odysseus (Latinised into Ulysses), the hero of Homer's Odyss...
The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Equally immature Pyle's well-intentioned policies blunder into bloodshed, Fowler, a seasoned and cynical British reporter, finds information technology impossible to stand safely aside as an observer. But Fowler'southward motives for...
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

While staying as the invitee of a mill owner in pre-Start Earth War French republic, Stephen Wraysford embarks on a passionate thing with Isabelle, the married woman of his host. The affair changes them both for e...
Coin by Martin Amis

Coin tells the story of, and is narrated past, John Self, a successful director of commercials who is invited to New York by Fielding Goodney, a moving-picture show producer, in guild to shoot his first film. Self...
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets by J. K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sleeping room of Secrets is the 2d instalment in the Harry Potter series written by J. Yard. Rowling. The plot follows Harry'southward 2d year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizar...
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth instalment in the Harry Potter series written by J. One thousand. Rowling, published on July 8, 2000. The book attracted additional attending because of a pre...
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince past J. 1000 Rowling

Harry Potter and the One-half-Blood Prince, released on 16 July 2005, is the 6th of seven novels from British writer J. K. Rowling'southward popular Harry Potter series. Set during Harry Potter'due south 6th year ...
Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Outset published in 1851, Melville's masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick'south words, "the greatest novel in American literature." The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white wh...
The Wind in the Willows past Kenneth Grahame

A classic in children'due south literature The Wind in the Willow is alternately slow moving and fast paced. The volume focuses on 4 anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. T...
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

The story involves fantasy elements such equally witches and armoured polar bears, and alludes to a broad range of ideas from fields such as physics, philosophy, theology and spirituality. It follows th...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed honey affair betwixt the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds equally Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endu...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

In 1862 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician with a stammer, created a story about a little daughter tumbling down a rabbit hole. Thus began the immortal adventures of Alice, possibly th...
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Rebecca is considered to exist 1 of her best works. Some observers have noted parallels with Jane Eyre. Much of the novel was written while she was staying in Alexandria, Egypt, where her husband wa...
On the Road by Jack Kerouac

On the Road is a largely autobiographical work that was based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends beyond mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the mail...
Heart of Darkness past Joseph Conrad

The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a strange assignment from a Belgian trading company every bit a ferry-boat helm in Africa. Although Conrad does not specify the name of th...
The Style We Live At present past Anthony Trollope

'Trollope did non write for posterity,' observed Henry James. 'He wrote for the day, the moment; but these are only the writers whom posterity is apt to put into its pocket.' Considered by contempo...
The Stranger by Albert Camus

Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus'south extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (Fifty'Etranger), has had a profound bear on on millions of American readers. Through this story ...
The Colour Regal by Alice Walker

Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on female person black life during the 1930s in the Southern United States, addressing the numerous problems including their exceedingly low position ...
Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel written by Canadian author Yann Martel. In the story, the protagonist Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores bug of spiritua...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

At this challenge, Mary Shelley began work on the 'ghost story' that was to evolve into the most celebrated horror novel in literary history. Frankenstein was published the side by side year and become the...
War of the Worlds past H. G. Wells

When iv Martian infinite ships land in England, masses of people flee the cities, driven by an overwhelming fright of the conflicting creatures devastating weapons of death and destruction. Excellently adap...
Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway

Before he gained wide fame equally a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his brusk stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitiv...
Gulliver'due south Travels past Jonathan Swift

From the preeminent prose satirist in the English linguistic communication, a great archetype recounting the four remarkable journeys of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver. For children it remains an enchanting fantasy;...
A Christmas Ballad past Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol (originally, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Beingness a Ghost Story of Christmas) is a novella past English writer Charles Dickens (vii February 1812 – ix June 1870) virtually a curmudgeon and h...
Robinson Crusoe past Daniel Defoe

A shipwreck's sole escapee, Robinson Crusoe endures 28 years of solitude on a Caribbean island and manages non only to survive but besides to prevail. A warm humanity, evocative details of his struggl...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo'due south Nest past Ken Kesey

Narrated by the gigantic but docile half-Indian "Main" Bromden, who has pretended to be a deafened-mute for several years, the story focuses on the antics of the rebellious Randle Patrick McMurphy, a ...
Take hold of-22 by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 is a satirical, historical novel by the American author Joseph Heller, showtime published in 1961. The novel, set during the later stages of World War Two from 1943 onwards, is frequently cite...
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Set against the tumultuous years of the postal service-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monet Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The...
Memoirs of a Geisha past Arthur Golden

A literary awareness and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Nihon's most celebrated geisha. Speaki...
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Celebrated novel traces the moral degeneration of a handsome young Londoner from an innocent fop into a cruel and reckless pursuer of pleasure and, ultimately, a murderer. Equally Dorian Grey sinks into...