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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

A governess with a fierce heart navigates love, loss, and the shadows of Thornfield Hall.

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the enduring classic of wit, courtship, social pressure, misjudgment, and the gradual correction of first impressions.

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The Creators

The Creators

A novel about the lives, loves, and rivalries of writers and artists, exploring the demands of the creative vocation.

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Paul Patoff

Paul Patoff

A novel of intrigue and human passions from F.

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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Melville’s final novel turns a Mississippi steamboat into a shifting satire of trust, fraud, charity, and self-invention.

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An Old Man's Love

An Old Man's Love

Anthony Trollope's last completed novel, a quiet, tender study of an ageing man's love for his young ward and the claims that youth and honour make on the heart.

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The wheel of earth

The wheel of earth

A work whose title evokes the turning of the world and the cycles of human life.

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Two on a Tower

Two on a Tower

Thomas Hardy's poignant novel of a love that reaches across barriers of class and age, played out beneath the vast indifference of the stars.

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The Amazing Marriage — Complete

The Amazing Marriage — Complete

George Meredith's late novel of a headstrong marriage gone wrong, told with his signature wit and psychological depth.

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Barchester Towers

Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope's beloved comedy of clerical politics, where a new bishop, his formidable wife, and an oily chaplain upend the quiet cathedral town of Barchester.

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Desperate Remedies

Desperate Remedies

Thomas Hardy’s first published novel blends romance, secrecy, mistaken motives, and melodramatic danger into a fast-moving story of ambition and manipulation.

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Age of Innocence

Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a sophisticated classic about desire, marriage, social performance, and the hidden costs of respectability in Gilded Age New York.

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The Man Who Did the Right Thing

The Man Who Did the Right Thing

A novel turning on questions of conscience and moral choice, whose title promises a story of a man measured by his decisions.

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Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf's luminous novel follows a single London day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, weaving memory, consciousness, and the shadow of the Great War.

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The Reign of Greed

The Reign of Greed

José Rizal's darker sequel to Noli Me Tangere, in which a returned exile plots amid corruption and colonial cruelty, hastening a nation toward its reckoning.

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Robert Elsmere

Robert Elsmere

A landmark Victorian novel of religious doubt, following a clergyman whose faith is shaken by the questions of his age.

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Howards End

Howards End

E.

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Ann Veronica

Ann Veronica

H.

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy's tragic masterwork of a country girl wronged and hounded by fate, class and cruel morality, told against the fading beauty of rural Wessex.

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce traces Stephen Dedalus from childhood to artistic self-assertion in a modern novel of language, conscience, faith, and ambition.

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The Idiot

The Idiot

Dostoevsky's tragic novel of a guileless, Christlike prince set loose in a grasping St Petersburg society, where his innocence dazzles, disturbs and is finally broken.

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The Passionate Friends

The Passionate Friends

H.G.

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The Red Lily — Complete

The Red Lily — Complete

Anatole France's novel of a Parisian woman who follows her heart to Florence, where a new passion collides with jealousy, memory, and the cost of desire.

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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

Kate Chopin's landmark novel of a woman's sensual and spiritual awakening, gathered with short stories that made her a pioneer of American literature.

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Notes from the Underground

Notes from the Underground

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A pair of blue eyes

A pair of blue eyes

One of Thomas Hardy's early novels, a tale of love and social divide set against the dramatic cliffs of the Cornish coast.

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Dubliners

Dubliners

James Joyce's incomparable collection of stories mapping the everyday lives of early-twentieth-century Dublin.

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Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut

The Abbé Prévost's famous tale of a young man's ruinous passion for the beautiful, faithless Manon.

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What Will People Say? A Novel

What Will People Say? A Novel

A novel probing the pressures of reputation, appearance, and social judgment on the choices people make.

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Robert Orange

Robert Orange

A late-Victorian novel of society, conscience, and thwarted feeling by the writer known as John Oliver Hobbes.

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Goethe's incendiary early novel lays bare the anguished heart of a sensitive young man consumed by hopeless love, a work that gripped a generation, defined literary Romanticism and

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A farewell to arms

A farewell to arms

Ernest Hemingway's stark, tender novel of love and war on the Italian front.

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The Complete Works of Jane Austen

The Complete Works of Jane Austen

The complete works of Jane Austen gathered in one volume, from Pride and Prejudice to Emma and Persuasion, the full range of her wit, irony, and unmatched understanding of the huma

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The History of Sir Richard Calmady

The History of Sir Richard Calmady

Lucas Malet's ambitious, controversial novel about a man born with a severe physical deformity and the life he must build in a world of privilege, beauty, and cruelty.

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White nights, and other stories

White nights, and other stories

A gathering of Dostoevsky's shorter fiction, led by the tender, aching "White Nights" — four luminous evenings in the life of a St Petersburg dreamer who loves too well and too lat

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Ulysses

Ulysses

James Joyce's epic of a single ordinary Dublin day, following Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom through the city.

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The Enchanted April

The Enchanted April

Elizabeth von Arnim's radiant novel of four very different Englishwomen who share a medieval Italian castle for a month, and find themselves gently transformed.

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The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

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The Blue Castle

The Blue Castle

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A Room with a View

A Room with a View

A Room with a View by E.

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The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors

Henry James's great late novel of Europe, self-discovery, missed chances, and the cost of a truly examined life.

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The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady

A spirited young American inherits a fortune and the freedom to choose her own life in Europe, only to find her choices narrowing.

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The Awakening

The Awakening

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The Custom of the Country

The Custom of the Country

Edith Wharton's brilliant social novel follows ambition, marriage, money, and status in Gilded Age America and Europe.

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Summer

Summer

A young woman coming of age in a stifling New England village discovers desire, freedom and its costs over one transformative summer, in a spare and sensuous classic of American re

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Ethan Frome

Ethan Frome

Edith Wharton's stark, unforgettable tragedy of thwarted desire.

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The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

Edith Wharton’s great novel of New York society follows Lily Bart through wealth, scrutiny, desire, and social ruin with wit, elegance, and devastating precision.

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The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

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The Song of the Lark

The Song of the Lark

A gifted girl from a small Colorado town follows her voice toward the world of grand opera.

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My Ántonia

My Ántonia

Willa Cather's luminous elegy for the American prairie.

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O Pioneers!

O Pioneers!

Willa Cather's luminous prairie novel follows a strong-willed Swedish immigrant woman who tames the wild Nebraska land her father could not, and pays for her success in love and lo

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The Open Boat and Other Stories

The Open Boat and Other Stories

Stephen Crane turns his own shipwreck off the Florida coast into some of the sharpest short fiction in American literature.

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Stephen Crane's stark, pioneering novella follows a young woman crushed by poverty and hypocrisy in the New York slums, an unflinching landmark of American literary naturalism.

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The Red Badge of Courage

The Red Badge of Courage

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Martin Eden

Martin Eden

Jack London’s ambitious novelist-hero climbs through class aspiration, self-education, romantic idealism, and social disillusion in a fierce modern classic of literary ambition.

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The Woodlanders

The Woodlanders

Thomas Hardy’s tragic woodland novel of love, social pressure, class tension, and the slow ruin of human hopes.

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Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy's bleakest, boldest novel follows a stonemason who longs to be a scholar and loves against the rules, only to be crushed by class, marriage and the indifference of the

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy's tragic masterpiece explores guilt, pride, fate, and ruin in one of the great character studies of Victorian fiction.

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Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy's beloved pastoral drama.

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The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native

On a brooding stretch of heathland, ambition, love and misunderstanding pull a handful of lives toward disaster.

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Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot's bold final novel binds a spoiled society beauty's moral awakening to a young man's discovery of his Jewish heritage, reaching beyond England toward questions of iden

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Adam Bede

Adam Bede

George Eliot’s first novel brings rural labor, moral consequence, and intimate human conflict into a broad, patient work of Victorian realism.

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Silas Marner

Silas Marner

George Eliot's tender fable follows a betrayed, miserly weaver whose hoarded gold is stolen and replaced by an abandoned child, in a moving parable of loss, community and quiet red

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Middlemarch

Middlemarch

George Eliot's vast, humane masterpiece anatomises an English town on the edge of reform, weaving idealists, doctors and disappointed hearts into the fullest portrait of a society

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The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss

A clever, passionate girl grows up bound to a brother she adores and a provincial world that cannot contain her.

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Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Gaskell’s great domestic novel of family change, courtship, social nuance, and moral intelligence.

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North and South

North and South

A richly observed Victorian novel of industry, class, conscience, and slow-burning romance by Elizabeth Gaskell.

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Shirley

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë's ambitious social novel.

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Villette

Villette

A reserved young Englishwoman takes a teaching post in a foreign city and confronts loneliness, longing and a fiercely guarded heart.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë's bold second novel follows a secretive young widow who arrives at a crumbling hall, and the diary that reveals why she fled her marriage.

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Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë's clear-eyed first novel follows a clergyman's daughter into the thankless world of the Victorian governess, where gentility masks cruelty and quiet integrity is its ow

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Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens's last completed novel, a dark and dazzling panorama of money, identity and the London river.

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Hard Times

Hard Times

Charles Dickens's Hard Times is a concentrated industrial novel of education, class, labor, and emotional damage in the fact-driven world of Coketown.

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Bleak House

Bleak House

Charles Dickens's sprawling masterpiece revolves around an endless court case that consumes everyone it touches, binding a foggy London of lords, orphans and lawyers in one of fict

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Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens's rousing tale of a young man's fight against cruelty and greed.

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David Copperfield

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens follows an orphaned boy from a cruel childhood to hard-won maturity, in the sweeping, deeply personal novel its author called his favorite child, filled with unforg

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist

Dickens’s fierce and unforgettable novel of poverty, criminal exploitation, and moral endurance in Victorian London.

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Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

Austen’s morally exacting novel of family influence, social ambition, performance, and the quiet resilience of Fanny Price.

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Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen’s playful satire of Gothic fiction, following Catherine Morland from naïve fantasy toward sharper judgment.

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Les Misérables

Les Misérables

Victor Hugo’s vast and humane masterpiece of justice, mercy, revolution, and the moral lives that unfold under historical pressure.

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The Prophets

The Prophets

Robert Jones Jr.'s searing, lyrical debut.

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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Andrea Lawlor's exuberant, shape-shifting novel.

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The Thirty Names of Night

The Thirty Names of Night

Zeyn Joukhadar's luminous novel braids a closeted Syrian American trans artist, a vanished painter, and a rare bird into a story of grief, transformation and finding the name that

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Orlando

Orlando

Virginia Woolf's giddy, genre-defying romp follows one poet across four centuries and two genders, turning biography into a love letter and a sly interrogation of identity itself.

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Detransition, Baby

Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters's bold, funny and tender novel about three people, a surprise pregnancy, and the question of what it means to make a family.

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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong's luminous debut novel takes the form of a letter from a son to his mother who cannot read it, tracing family, immigration, first love and survival in prose of extraord

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Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin's spare, aching Paris novel follows an American adrift between a fiancée and a bartender named Giovanni, anatomising shame, desire and the ruin that self-denial leave

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Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

A steamboat captain’s journey into the Congo unravels into a haunting meditation on power, savagery, and the fragile veneer of civilization.

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The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

A volatile father’s murder ignites a spiritual and moral inferno for his three sons—one a sensualist, one an intellectual, one a mystic—in Dostoyevsky’s searing final novel.

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Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Emma Bovary’s longing for a life of passion and luxury collides with the banality of provincial France in this piercing exploration of desire and disillusionment.

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War and Peace

War and Peace

Tolstoy's sweeping saga captures the chaos of war and the quiet dramas of the heart, weaving together the lives of aristocrats, soldiers, and dreamers against the backdrop of Napol

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Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

A woman risks everything for passion in a world that demands her obedience.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A haunting fable of beauty and corruption, where a man’s portrait ages in his stead while his soul darkens behind an ageless face.

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë’s 'Wuthering Heights' is a tempest of love and revenge, set against the wild Yorkshire moors.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

A misty marshland, a mysterious benefactor, and a boy’s dizzying ascent into a world of wealth and illusion.

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