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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Hank Morgan, a 19th-century American engineer is mysteriously transported back to 6th-century Camelot.
Tags: King Arthur, yankee
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is a whimsical, nonsensical children's novel about a young girl named Alice who follows a talking rabbit down a hole into a fantastical world filled with peculiar creatures and illogical situations.
Tags: Adventure, Lewis Carroll
Dracula
Count Dracula’s attempt to move from Transylvania to England in order to spread the undead curse, and the efforts of a group of people to stop him.
Tags: Bram Stoker, Vampires
Far From the Madding Crowd
"Far from the Madding Crowd" by Thomas Hardy is a classic Victorian novel that tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene, a headstrong and independent young woman navigating the complexities of love and relationships in rural England, where she attracts…
Tags: Cornhill Magazine, Romance, Thomas Hardy
Faust
In this novel in verse, Faust is a scholarly man who, in his pursuit of knowledge, has become depressed. He seeks out Mephistopheles, representative of the Devil, and makes a deal exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly…
Tags: Redemption, Tragedy
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who, as the result of scientific experimentation, creates a sapient creature. He grapples with the implications of his creation when abandoning it, and later hunting it. Through…
Tags: Gothic, Science-Fiction
Leaves of Grass
The original volume of poetry by 19th century American poet and transcendentalist Walt Whitman, collecting the 12 original poems. Whitman continued to republish the volume, eventually reaching over 400 poems.
Tags: Poems, Walt Whitman
Little Women
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage…
Tags: Louisa May Alcott, Sisterhood
North and South
Set in the mid-19th century, and written from the author's first-hand experience, North and South follows the story of the heroine's movement from the tranquil but moribund ways of southern England to the vital but turbulent north. Elizabeth…
Tags: John Jakes, West Point