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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…

"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.

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 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.

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…