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Aesop's Fable's - Aesop
Aesop's
Fables refers to a collection of fables credited to
Aesop (620–560 BC), a slave and story-teller who lived
in Ancient Greece. Aesop's Fables have become a blanket
term for collections of brief fables, usually involving
personified animals. The fables remain a popular choice
for moral education of children today. Many stories
included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the
Grapes, and more...
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Animal Farm - George
Orwell
Animal Farm
is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism.
Orwell based major events in the book on ones from the
Soviet Union during the Stalin era. Orwell, a democratic
socialist, and a member of the Independent Labor Party
for many years, was a critic of Stalin, and was
suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his
experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
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Anna Karenina - Leo
Tolstoy
Anna
Karenina (Анна Каренина) is a novel by the Russian
writer Leo Tolstoy first published in periodical
installments from 1875 to 1877. The novel first appeared
as a serial in the periodical Ruskii Vestnik (Russian:
"Русский Вестник", "Russian Messenger") -- but Tolstoy
clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues that
arose in the final installment. Therefore, the novel's
first complete appearance was in book
form.
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Around the World in 80 Days - Jules
Verne
Around the
World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the
French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In
the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly-employed
French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the
world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager set by his friends
at the Reform Club.
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A Christmas Carol - Charles
Dickens
written as a potboiler to enable
Dickens to pay off a debt,[2] the tale has become one of
the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all
time. In fact, contemporaries noted that the story's
popularity played a critical role in redefining the
importance of Christmas and the major sentiments
associated with the holiday. Few modern readers realize
that A Christmas Carol was written during a time of
decline in the old Christmas
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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor
Dostoevsky
Crime and
Punishment focuses on Raskolnikov, an impoverished
student who formulates a plan to kill and rob a hated
pawnbroker, thereby solving his money problems and at
the same time ridding the world of her evil. Exhibiting
some symptoms of megalomania, Raskolnikov thinks himself
a gifted man, similar to Napoleon.
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Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dracula has
been attributed to many literary genres including horror
fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature.
Structurally it is an epistolary novel, that is, told as
a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics
have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role
of women in Victorian culture, conventional and
repressed sexuality, immigration, post-colonialism and
folklore.
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Emma - Jane Austen
Emma is a
comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816,
about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main
character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening
paragraph as "handsome, clever, and rich" but is also
rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel, Austen
wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but
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Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy
Tales
The Danish
author Hans Christian Andersen is known for his original
fairy tales, eighteen of which are collected
here.
Contents - The Emperor’s New Clothes - The
Swineherd - The Real Princess - The Shoes of Fortune -
The Fir Tree - The Snow Queen - The Leap-Frog - The
Elderbush - The Bell - The Old House - The Happy Family
- The Story of a Mother - The False Collar - The Shadow
- The Little Match Girl - The Dream of Little Tuk - The
Naughty Boy - The Red Shoes. |
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Heart of Darkness - Joseph
Conrad
The story
details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a
foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain on what
readers may assume is the Congo River, in the Congo Free
State, a private colony of King Leopold II; the country
is never specifically named. Though his job is
transporting ivory
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Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles is
a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally
serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902,
which is set largely on Dartmoor 1889. At the time of
researching the novel, Conan Doyle was a General
Practitioner in Plymouth, and thus was able to explore
the moor and accurately capture its mood and feel. In
the novel, the detective Sherlock Holmes and his
assistant Dr. Watson are called to investigate a curse
which is alleged to be on the house of the
Baskervilles.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark
Twain
Accounted as
one of the first Great American Novels. It was also one
of the first major American novels ever written using
Local Color Realism or the vernacular, or common speech,
being told in the first person by the eponymous
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer (hero
of three other Mark Twain books). The book was first
published in
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The Jungle Book - Rudyard
Kipling
The tales in the book (and also
those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895,
and which includes five further stories about Mowgli)
are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner
to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the
Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of
individuals, families and
communities.
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Little Women - Louisa May
Alcott
It was based
on Alcott's own experiences as a child in Concord,
Massachusetts. After much demand, Louisa May Alcott
wrote a sequel, Good Wives, which was published in 1869
and is often published together with Little Women as if
it were a single work. Good Wives picks up three years
after the events in the last chapter of Little Women
("Aunt March Settles The Question"), and includes
characters and events often felt by fans to be essential
to the Little Women
story.
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The Scarlet Letter- Nathanial
Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter published in
1850, is a Gothic American romance novel written by
Nathaniel Hawthorne; generally considered to be his
masterpiece. Set in Puritan New England (specifically
Boston) in the seventeenth century, it tells the story
of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing
adultery, refuses to name the father, and struggles to
create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout,
Hawthorne explores the issues of grace, legalism, and
guilt. |
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Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore
Cooper
It was one
of the most popular English-language novels of its time,
and helped establish Cooper as one of the first
world-famous American writers. Although stylistic and
narrative flaws left it open to criticism since its
publication, and its length and distinctive prose style
have reduced its appeal to later readers, The Last of
the Mohicans remains embedded in American literature
courses. It is the most famous of the Leatherstocking
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Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G.
Wells
After being
rescued from shipwreck and brought to a mysterious
island, Edward Prendick discovers that its inhabitants
are the macabre result of experimental vivisections, the
work of the visionary Dr Moreau. In the interests of
scientific advancement, the doctor has transformed
various beasts into strange looking man-creatures,
"human in shape, and yet human beings with the strangest
air about them of some familiar
animal."
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Paradise Lost - John
Milton
The
protagonist of this Protestant epic is the fallen angel,
Satan. Looked at from a modern perspective it may appear
to some that Milton presents Satan sympathetically, as
an ambitious and prideful being who defies his
tyrannical creator, omnipotent God, and wages war on
Heaven, only to be defeated and cast down. Indeed,
William Blake, a great admirer of Milton's, and who
illustrated the epic poem, said of Milton that 'he was a
true Poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing
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Pride and Prejudice - Jane
Austen
Pride and
Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is the
most famous of Jane Austen's novels. It is one of the
first romantic comedies in the history of the novel and
its opening is one of the most famous lines in English
literature—"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that
a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in
want of a wife." |
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Red Badge of Courage - Stephen
Crane
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is an
impressionistic novel by Stephen Crane about the meaning
of courage, as it is discovered by Henry Fleming, a
recruit in the American Civil War. It was filmed in 1951
and again in 1974, and is one of the most influential
American war stories ever written, even though the
author was born after war and had never seen battle
himself.
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Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington
Irving
The story is
set in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in
a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story
of Ichabod Crane, a priggish schoolmaster from
Connecticut, who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van
Brunt, for the hand of eighteen-year-old Katrina Van
Tassel. As Crane leaves a party, he is pursued by the
Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of a Hessian
trooper who lost his head to a cannon-ball during "some
nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary
War
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
Collection
The Sonnets comprise a
collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by
William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love,
beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were probably
written over a period of several years. The Sonnets were
published under conditions that have become unclear to
history. For example, there is a mysterious dedication
at the beginning of the text wherein a certain "Mr.
W.H." is described as "the only begetter" of the poems
by the publisher Thomas Thorpe, but it is not known who
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A Tale of Two Cities - Charles
Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a
historical novel by Charles Dickens. The plot centers on
the years leading up to the French Revolution and
culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It tells the
story of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, who
look similar but are very different in personality.
Darnay is a romantic French aristocrat, while Carton is
a cynical English barrister. However, the two are in
love with the same woman, Lucie
Manette.
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The Time Machine - H.G.
Wells
The Time
Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in
1895, later made into two films of the same title. This
novel is generally credited with the popularization of
the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows
an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The
novel's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist
living in London identified simply as The Time Traveler.
Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model
that time is a fourth dimension, and that a suitable
apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth
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Ulysses- James Joyce
Ulysses chronicles the passage
through Dublin by its main character, Leopold Bloom,
during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904. The title alludes
to the hero of Homer's Odyssey (Latinised into Ulysses),
and there are many parallels, both implicit and
explicit, between the two works (e.g. the correlations
between Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and
Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). June 16
is now celebrated by Joyce's fans worldwide as
Bloomsday.
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Wuthering Heights- Emily
Bronte
Wuthering
Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first
published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a
posthumous second edition was edited by her sister
Charlotte. The name of the novel comes from the manor on
which the story centers. Wuthering Heights has given
rise to many adaptations, including several films,
radio, and television dramatizations, and two musicals
(including Heathcliff). It also inspired a hit song by
Kate Bush, which subsequently has been covered by a
variety of
artists. |
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Great Expectations - Charles
Dickens
Great Expectations is the story
of the orphan Pip told by the protagonist in
semi-autobiographical style as a remembrance of his life
from the early days of his childhood until years after
the main conflicts of the story have been resolved in
adulthood. The story is also semi-autobiographical to
the author Dickens, as are some other of his stories,
drawing on his experiences of life and
people. |
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