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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…

This story follows a mermaid princess who longs to explore the human world. Her longing leads her to give up her voice and tail for a chance to live as a human.

This is a novel of manners, which depicts the complexities of English fashionable society in the 19th century. It follows Elizabeth Bennet, one of five daughters in the Bennet family, as her family all make attempts to find a male heir to inherit the…

"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.

Wilkie Collins’s spellbinding tale of romance, theft, and murder inspired a hugely popular genre–the detective mystery. Hinging on the theft of an enormous diamond originally stolen from an Indian shrine, this riveting novel features the…

The Woman in White is a Victorian-era mystery novel revolving around the strange circumstances of a young art teacher and a woman who has escaped from an insane asylum.

This novel follows Oliver Twist, a boy orphaned at birth, in Victorian England who is raised in hardship in a workhouse, before escaping to London where he gets drawn into a life of crime as a pickpocket.

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…

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…

"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…