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Anna Karenina, Book 1 by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina, Book 1
By Leo Tolstoy (romance, tragedy, historical fiction, literature)

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Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisies of society. (Summary… Read more ›

Anne of Green Gables (version 3) by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables (version 3)
By Lucy Maud Montgomery (children)

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The timeless story of the young orphan girl sent by accident to a brother and sister who had wanted a boy, Anne, with her vivid imagination and sensitive spirit, has enchanted readers for generations. (Summary by Karen Savage)… Read more ›

A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (mystery, adventure, teen and young adult)

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A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book, Dr. Watson meets the detective for the first time and we ride along with them to the scene of a murder. The crime… Read more ›

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis
By Franz Kafka (fiction)

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The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, "The Transformation") is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and The Castle. The story begins with a traveling… Read more ›

The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
By Charles Dickens (comedy, literature, fiction)

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The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Nicholas is forced to unwelcome employment to help secure support for his widowed mother and his sister from their… Read more ›

Misérables, Les Vol. 3 by Victor Hugo

Misérables, Les Vol. 3
By Victor Hugo (romance, fiction)

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This is volume 3 of 5. -- An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people up. Hooray. (Summary by smileyman457)… Read more ›

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield
By Charles Dickens (fiction, literature)

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"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery" was first published in 1850. Like all except five of his works, it originally appeared in serial form. Many elements… Read more ›

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (literature, mystery, adventure)

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Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the cases unfold as he does, scratch our heads as does he while the evidence is… Read more ›

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

As You Like It
By William Shakespeare (comedy, play)

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One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love Orlando… Read more ›

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth
By Edith Wharton (fiction)

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The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature, and one of the first to openly explore… Read more ›

Ulysses by James Joyce

Ulysses
By James Joyce (literature)

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Still one of the most radical novels of the 20th Century, James Joyce's Ulysses is considered to have ushered in the era of the modern novel. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, the book follows Leopold Bloom and a number of other characters through an… Read more ›

Anne of Green Gables (version 3) by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables (version 3)
By Lucy Maud Montgomery (children)

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The timeless story of the young orphan girl sent by accident to a brother and sister who had wanted a boy, Anne, with her vivid imagination and sensitive spirit, has enchanted readers for generations. (Summary by Karen Savage)… Read more ›

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Rautatie by Juhani Aho

Rautatie
By Juhani Aho (literature)

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Aho's first novel Rautatie (Railroad), considered one of his main works, is a story of an elderly couple who hear about railroad first time ever and have a hard time imagining carriages with no horses. They eventually get around to trying it out. Juhani… Read more ›

Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando, La by Lewis Carroll

Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando, La
By Lewis Carroll (children, adventure)

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La aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando (angle Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) estas verko de porinfana literaturo de la brita matematikisto kaj verkisto, pastro Charles Lutwidge Dodgson sub plumnomo Lewis Carroll. Ĝi rakontas la historion de knabino nomata… Read more ›

My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

My Man Jeeves
By P. G. Wodehouse (comedy)

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Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. It’s up to his manservant Jeeves to come up with the plan to save the day from unpleasant houseguests, stingy uncles, broken hearts, and hard-partying… Read more ›

Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse

Love Among the Chickens
By P. G. Wodehouse (comedy)

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Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start a chicken ranch. Garnet should bail out on his crazy friend, but he falls in love with one of Ukridge's neighbors,… Read more ›

The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson

The Getting of Wisdom
By Henry Handel Richardson (teen and young adult)

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The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on Henry Handel Richardson's experiences of her own school, the Prebysterian Ladies College in central Melbourne. The… Read more ›

A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A Little Princess
By Frances Hodgson Burnett (children)

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The novel tells of the troubles of a wealthy young girl, Sara Crewe, who is sent to an oppressive London boarding school during her father’s campaign in India. Thanks to Capt. Crewe’s money, Sara is treated as a little princess until, one day, word… Read more ›