EBooks
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James Joyce Dubliners
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, forming a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
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Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet
The first story to feature Sherlock Holmes, wherein the detective resolves to solve the mystery of a corpse found at a derelict house.
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Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie begins the illustrious career of detective extraordinaire Hercule Poirot in this 1920 mystery classic.
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Franz Kafka The Trial
The Trial tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime not revealed to him or to the reader.
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Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book
This classic spins the story of Mowgli — a boy raised by a pack of wolves — as he learns indelible lessons about the laws of the jungle as well as the needs of the heart.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Idiot
Inspired by an image of Christ's suffering, Fyodor Dostoyevsky set out to portray "a truly beautiful soul" colliding with the brutal reality of contemporary society.
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Jack London The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.
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The Brothers Grimm Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Grimm's Fairy Tales have delighted generations with such timeless classics as Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, and Rapunzel.
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Hermann Hesse Siddhartha
With parallels to the enlightenment of the Buddha, Hesse's Siddhartha is the story of a young Brahmin's quest for the ultimate reality.
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Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
The sweeping love story of two people who defy the conventions of their age to follow their hearts. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society.
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Franz Kafka Metamorphosis
Transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, Gregor Samsa becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man.
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Jane Austen Emma
Sparkling comedy concerning a well-intentioned young heiress and her matchmaking schemes that result in comic confusion for the inhabitants of a 19th-century English village.
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James M. Barrie Peter Pan
The story of a boy who wouldn't grow up. Follow Peter Pan with Wendy to Neverland and share in their adventures with the lost boys, Tinker Bell and the evil Captain Hook.
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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Follow the adventures of young Dorothy and her dog, as their Kansas house is swept away by a cyclone and they find themselves in a strange land called Oz.
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Jules Verne A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
A classic science fiction novel. The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the "center of the Earth".
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Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights
A novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff.
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Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein
A young student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and creates a monster who vows revenge after being rejected from society.
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Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
In Dorian Gray, a fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty.
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Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe
The account of a sailor shipwrecked on a desert island for twenty-eight years, it is also a tale of mythic proportions and an allegory.
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Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
From the preeminent prose satirist in the English language, a great classic recounting the 4 remarkable journeys of ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver.
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Bram Stoker Dracula
A horror romance as deathless as any vampire, the blood-curdling tale still continues to hold readers spellbound a century later.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic short story of a man born in his 70's who ages backward as those around him age in the more normal direction.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In this harrowing tale of good and evil, the mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll develops a potion that unleashes his secret, inner persona — the loathsome, twisted Mr. Hyde.