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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1869. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, as seen from the...

A Tale of Two Cities was written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1859. As per its title, the novel is set in the two cities of London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain and first published in 1885. Considered one of the great American novels, it is written in the vernacular and told in the first person by...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (often shortened to Alice in Wonderland) follows the strange adventures of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world full of peculiar, yet...

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French author Jules Verne, first published in 1873. The story follows Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet...

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in 1866. It was written after Dostoevsky's return from five years of exile in Siberia, where he was serving...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, originally titled Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is an 1886 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson. The story revolves around a London lawyer, Gabriel John...

Dracula is the ultimate vampire story. It has it all, from a remote, eerie castle in Transylvania, to the strange nocturnal life of its inhabitant, Count Dracula. Plenty of blood, garlic, stakes to...

Frankenstein (also titled The Modern Prometheus but now generally referred to as Frankenstein), was written by Mary Shelley and first published anonymously in 1818. The title makes reference to one...

Gulliver's Travels was written by Jonathan Swift and first published in 1726. The original book presents itself as a simple traveller's narrative with the title Travels into Several Remote Nations of...

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves a German professor (Professor Von Hardwigg) who believes there are volcanic tubes going...

Pride and Prejudice was written by Jane Austen and first published in 1813. The novel follows the principal character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, moral...

Robinson Crusoe is a famous story of shipwreck and survival, written by Daniel Defoe and first published in 1719. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character-a castaway who spends 28...

Tarzan of the Apes was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and first published in novel form in 1914. It is the story of Tarzan, the son of a British Lord and Lady marooned on the West coast of Africa by...

The Adventures of Robin Hood was written by Howard Pyle and first published in 1883. While its official title is The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, it has been shortened here to reflect popular...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes presents the ultimate detective stories. Holmes is likely the world's best known fictional detective. Operating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer presents the ultimate vision of boyhood. Tom Sawyer is a mischievous twelve-year-old boy living in the Mississippi River town of St Petersburg, Missouri with his Aunt...

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1903. The plot revolves around a previously domesticated dog named Buck, who is stolen from his home in the Santa Clara...

The Count of Monte Cristo was written by Alexandre Dumas and first published in book form in 1844-45. It is a novel set firmly in history, with many key plot points based on external political events...

The Science of Being Well is a book written by the New Thought Movement writer Wallace D. Wattles, published in 1910. It is the second in a series by Wallace D. Wattles . The first (The Science of...

The Science of Getting Rich is a book written by the New Thought Movement writer Wallace D. Wattles, published in 1910. The book is still in print after 100 years and was a major inspiration for...

The Three Musketeers is a novel by the French writer, Alexandre Dumas, first published in serial form in 1844. Set in the 17th century, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan...

The Vanishing of a Species? is a serious treatise exploring the past evolution, present predicament and possible future extinction of a particular species on planet Earth. The species is Homo sapiens...

The Wizard of Oz, popular abbreviation for the originally titled The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum originally published in 1900. The story follows the...

Through the Looking Glass is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) first published in 1871. It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The...

Treasure Island is the ultimate pirate adventure story, replete with treasure and an unforgettable cast, including Jim Hawkins, the boy at the centre of the action; Billy Bones, the pirate with the...

Wuthering Heights is the only novel by Emily Bront?. First published in 1847, the novel's title refers to the Yorkshire manor on the moors which forms the focal point of the story. Wuthering is a...