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Aesop's Fable's - Aesop
Aesop's
Fables refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560
BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's
Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables,
usually involving personified animals. The fables remain a popular
choice for moral education of children today. Many stories
included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes, and
more...
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Animal Farm - George Orwell
Animal
Farm is a satirical allegory of Soviet totalitarianism. Orwell
based major events in the book on ones from the Soviet Union
during the Stalin era. Orwell, a democratic socialist, and a
member of the Independent Labor Party for many years, was a critic
of Stalin, and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after
his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
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Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Anna
Karenina (Анна Каренина) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo
Tolstoy first published in periodical installments from 1875 to
1877. The novel first appeared as a serial in the periodical
Ruskii Vestnik (Russian: "Русский Вестник", "Russian Messenger")
-- but Tolstoy clashed with its editor Mikhail Katkov over issues
that arose in the final installment. Therefore, the novel's first
complete appearance was in book form.
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Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
Around
the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the
French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story,
Phileas Fogg of London and his newly-employed French valet
Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a
£20,000 wager set by his friends at the Reform Club.
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Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
written
as a potboiler to enable Dickens to pay off a debt,[2] the tale
has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories
of all time. In fact, contemporaries noted that the story's
popularity played a critical role in redefining the importance of
Christmas and the major sentiments associated with the holiday.
Few modern readers realize that A Christmas Carol was written
during a time of decline in the old Christmas traditions.
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Crime and Punishment
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment focuses on
Raskolnikov, an impoverished student who formulates a plan to
kill and rob a hated pawnbroker, thereby solving his money
problems and at the same time ridding the world of her evil.
Exhibiting some symptoms of megalomania, Raskolnikov thinks
himself a gifted man, similar to Napoleon.
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Dracula - Bram
Stoker
Dracula has been attributed to many
literary genres including horror fiction, the gothic novel and
invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel,
that is, told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary
critics have examined many themes in the novel, such as the role
of women in Victorian culture, conventional and repressed
sexuality, immigration, post-colonialism and folklore.
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Emma - Jane Austen
Emma is a comic novel by Jane
Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of
misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is
described in the opening paragraph as "handsome, clever, and
rich" but is also rather spoiled. Prior to starting the novel,
Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no-one but
myself will much like."
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Great Expectations -
Charles Dickens
Great
Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip told by the
protagonist in semi-autobiographical style as a remembrance of
his life from the early days of his childhood until years after
the main conflicts of the story have been resolved in adulthood.
The story is also semi-autobiographical to the author Dickens,
as are some other of his stories, drawing on his experiences of
life and people.
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The Green Mile -
Stephen King
More
or less as a challenge, Stephen King published this story as a
serial in six parts. Just as in Charles Dickens' time, the story
was crafted while the book was already in production. In keeping
with the serial concept, the first edition consists of six thin,
low-priced paperbacks.
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Hans Christian
Andersen - Fairy Tales
The
Danish author Hans Christian Andersen is known for his original
fairy tales, eighteen of which are collected here.
Contents - The Emperor’s New Clothes - The Swineherd - The Real
Princess - The Shoes of Fortune - The Fir Tree - The Snow Queen
- The Leap-Frog - The Elderbush - The Bell - The Old House - The
Happy Family - The Story of a Mother - The False Collar - The
Shadow - The Little Match Girl - The Dream of Little Tuk - The
Naughty Boy - The Red Shoes.
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Heart of Darkness -
Joseph Conrad
The
story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a
foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain on what readers may
assume is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private
colony of King Leopold II; the country is never specifically
named. Though his job is transporting ivory downriver.
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Hound of the
Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The
Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, originally serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and
1902, which is set largely on Dartmoor 1889. At the time of
researching the novel, Conan Doyle was a General Practitioner in
Plymouth, and thus was able to explore the moor and accurately
capture its mood and feel. In the novel, the detective Sherlock
Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson are called to investigate a
curse which is alleged to be on the house of the Baskervilles.
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Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Accounted
as one of the first Great American Novels. It was also one of
the first major American novels ever written using Local Color
Realism or the vernacular, or common speech, being told in the
first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best
friend of Tom Sawyer (hero of three other Mark Twain books). The
book was first published in 1884.
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The Jungle Book -
Rudyard Kipling
The
tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book
which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories
about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic
manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the
Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of
individuals, families and communities.
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Little Women -
Louisa May Alcott
It
was based on Alcott's own experiences as a child in Concord,
Massachusetts. After much demand, Louisa May Alcott wrote a
sequel, Good Wives, which was published in 1869 and is often
published together with Little Women as if it were a single
work. Good Wives picks up three years after the events in the
last chapter of Little Women ("Aunt March Settles The
Question"), and includes characters and events often felt by
fans to be essential to the Little Women story.
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Lord of the Rings -
J.R.R. Tolkien
The
Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by
English academic J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel
to Tolkien's earlier fantasy book, The Hobbit, and soon
developed into a much larger story. It was written in stages
between 1937 and 1949, with much of it being created during
World War II. It was originally published in three volumes in
1954 and 1955 and has since been reprinted numerous times and
translated into at least 38 languages, becoming one of the most
popular works in 20th-century literature.
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Last of the Mohicans
- James Fenimore Cooper
It
was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time,
and helped establish Cooper as one of the first world-famous
American writers. Although stylistic and narrative flaws left it
open to criticism since its publication, and its length and
distinctive prose style have reduced its appeal to later
readers, The Last of the Mohicans remains embedded in American
literature courses. It is the most famous of the Leatherstocking
Tales.
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Island of Dr. Moreau
- H.G. Wells
After
being rescued from shipwreck and brought to a mysterious island,
Edward Prendick discovers that its inhabitants are the macabre
result of experimental vivisections, the work of the visionary
Dr Moreau. In the interests of scientific advancement, the
doctor has transformed various beasts into strange looking
man-creatures, "human in shape, and yet human beings with the
strangest air about them of some familiar animal."
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Paradise Lost - John
Milton
The
protagonist of this Protestant epic is the fallen angel, Satan.
Looked at from a modern perspective it may appear to some that
Milton presents Satan sympathetically, as an ambitious and
prideful being who defies his tyrannical creator, omnipotent
God, and wages war on Heaven, only to be defeated and cast down.
Indeed, William Blake, a great admirer of Milton's, and who
illustrated the epic poem, said of Milton that 'he was a true
Poet, and of the Devil's party without knowing it'
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Pride and Prejudice
- Jane Austen
Pride
and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is the most
famous of Jane Austen's novels. It is one of the first romantic
comedies in the history of the novel and its opening is one of
the most famous lines in English literature—"It is a truth
universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a
good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
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Red Badge of Courage
- Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is
an impressionistic novel by Stephen Crane about the meaning of
courage, as it is discovered by Henry Fleming, a recruit in the
American Civil War. It was filmed in 1951 and again in 1974, and
is one of the most influential American war stories ever
written, even though the author was born after war and had never
seen battle himself.
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The Scarlet Letter-
Nathanial Hawthorne
The
Scarlet Letter published in 1850, is a Gothic American romance
novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne; generally considered to be
his masterpiece. Set in Puritan New England (specifically
Boston) in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of Hester
Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery, refuses to
name the father, and struggles to create a new life of
repentance and dignity. Throughout, Hawthorne explores the
issues of grace, legalism, and guilt.
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The Shining -
Stephen King
The
Shining (1977) is a horror novel by American author Stephen
King. King's third published novel, the success of the book
firmly established King as a pre-eminent author in the genre. A
film based upon the book, The Shining directed by Stanley
Kubrick, was released in 1980. The book was later adapted into a
television mini-series.
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Legend of Sleepy
Hollow - Washington Irving
The
story is set in the Dutch settlement of Tarry Town, New York, in
a secluded glen called Sleepy Hollow. It tells the story of
Ichabod Crane, a priggish schoolmaster from Connecticut, who
competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt, for the hand of
eighteen-year-old Katrina Van Tassel. As Crane leaves a party,
he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, supposedly the ghost of
a Hessian trooper who lost his head to a cannon-ball during
"some nameless battle" of the American Revolutionary War
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Shakespeare's
Sonnets Collection
The
Sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form
written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as
love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were probably
written over a period of several years. The Sonnets were
published under conditions that have become unclear to history.
For example, there is a mysterious dedication at the beginning
of the text wherein a certain "Mr. W.H." is described as "the
only begetter" of the poems by the publisher Thomas Thorpe, but
it is not known who this man was.
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A Tale of Two Cities
- Charles Dickens
A
Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles
Dickens. The plot centers on the years leading up to the French
Revolution and culminates in the Jacobin Reign of Terror. It
tells the story of two men, Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton,
who look similar but are very different in personality. Darnay
is a romantic French aristocrat, while Carton is a cynical
English barrister. However, the two are in love with the same
woman, Lucie Manette.
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The Time Machine -
H.G. Wells
The
Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895,
later made into two films of the same title. This novel is
generally credited with the popularization of the concept of
time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel
purposefully and selectively. The novel's protagonist is an
amateur inventor or scientist living in London identified simply
as The Time Traveler. Having demonstrated to friends using a
miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and that a
suitable apparatus can move back and forth in this fourth
dimension.
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Ulysses- James Joyce
Ulysses chronicles the passage through Dublin by its main
character, Leopold Bloom, during an ordinary day, June 16, 1904.
The title alludes to the hero of Homer's Odyssey (Latinised into
Ulysses), and there are many parallels, both implicit and
explicit, between the two works (e.g. the correlations between
Leopold Bloom and Odysseus, Molly Bloom and Penelope, and
Stephen Dedalus and Telemachus). June 16 is now celebrated by
Joyce's fans worldwide as Bloomsday.
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Wuthering Heights-
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first
published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a
posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte.
The name of the novel comes from the manor on which the story
centers. Wuthering Heights has given rise to many adaptations,
including several films, radio, and television dramatizations,
and two musicals (including Heathcliff). It also inspired a hit
song by Kate Bush, which subsequently has been covered by a
variety of artists.
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