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Set in Paris during the 15th century the story centers on Quasimodo, the hunchback bell-ringer of the Notre-Dame Cathedral.

A gothic short story that follows an unnamed narrator as he visits a childhood friend, Roderick Usher, who has a mysterious illness.

Swiss Family Robinson is about a family immigrating to Australia when they become shipwrecked in the East Indies. There, with only themselves and a few domestic animals, they must learn the skills necessary to survive. The novel was intended to…

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…

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…

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an American novel of nautical adventure. Originally published in 1851, the narrative follows the crew of a whaling vessel and their enigmatic leader, Captain Ahab, in their pursuit to hunt a mysterious, all-white whale…

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…

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.

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…