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Becky Sharp is a keen navigator of the ranks of Victorian society. With no family fortune or pedigree to invite her into the finest circles, Becky relies on determination and her sly intelligence to p ...
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One of the most famous novels of the Victorian age and a fabulously juicy read to this day, Middlemarch is George Eliot's masterpiece. At the heart of the story are sisters Dorothea and Cecilia Brook ...
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More than a landmark of American literature, Uncle Tom's Cabin makes a powerful anti-slavery statement about the inhumanity of the "peculiar institution." Throughout Stowe's sentimental tale ...
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Anne Shirley, the heroine of L.M. Montgomery's 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, is a girl like no other. Growing up in an orphanage, Anne quickly learns the value of a powerful imagination. It comes i ...
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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2003 saw the release of Cory Doctorow’s first novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. The “Magic Kingdom” of the title refers to the Magic Kingdom we know today - Disneyworld. And yet, in the ...
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The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens's first novel, published in serial form in 1837. This is the story of the "Pickwick Club," a private society of eccentric gentlemen who feel themselve ...
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Captures, disguises, chases, and daring escapes, all set against a backdrop of war: this is the stirring adventure story you've been looking for
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In Jules Verne's 1874 novel The Mysterious Island, the Civil War is raging in the United States. Five Northern men have been taken prisoner by the Confederate army in Richmond, Virginia. The city is e ...
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Joseph Conrad weaves a startling tale of espionage, political unrest, and personal turmoil in his 1907 novel The Secret Agent. Set in 1886, it is the story of a man known as Verloc. Life is a humdrum ...
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By the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of big business in America had brought huge changes to the lives of people everywhere. Some enjoyed major success, while others struggled desperately to ...
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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
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A mix of Borges-worthy fantasy with nethead-bellhead debates. It works.
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A vacation to the exotic location of Bath brings excitement and novelty to teenager Catherine Morland's life. Eager for a grand adventure to begin once she arrives, Catherine is delighted to receive t ...
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The dramatic conclusion to the saga of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers—and the revelation of the mysterious man in the iron mask
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A lonely young orphan struggling with a physical deformity, Philip Carey is sent to live with his cold and aloof aunt and uncle. His only joy in their home comes from reading. Great works of literatur ...
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In 1922 the Jazz Age was at its height—night after night, the privileged class danced till dawn, fueled by money, alcohol, and a taste for fun. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned, ...
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A young man weighs two very different options for his future at the start of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Robinson can either settle down to a comfortable career in law or set sail for faraway plac ...
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Lucy Snowe is seeking some much-needed stability and security when she takes a job as a teacher in the faraway city of Villette. What she does not realize is that she's in for a wild ride of mystery, ...
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On a very special Christmas Eve, a hard-hearted man is given a wonderful and terrifying gift. Ebeneezer Scrooge sees no point in Christmas fun. He forces his employee, Bob Cratchit, to work in his fre ...
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