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Olenin was a youth who had never completed his university course, never served anywhere (having only a nominal post in some government office or other), who...

Wellington Redburn is a fifteen-year-old from the state of New York, with only one dream - to run away to sea. However, when he does fulfil this long-held...

Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in...

Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction. Commonly...

OUT of the darkest depths of life, where vice and crime and misery abound, comes the Byron of the twentieth century, the poet of the vagabond and the...

Excerpt: Ta-ra! ta-ra! ta-ra-ra-ra! ta-rat! Professor Krenner took the silver bugle from his lips while the strain echoed flatly from the opposite, wooded...

Septimius Felton was written in the year 1872 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is one of the most popular novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and has been...

Life with seven boy cousins isn't quite what Rose expected. Left an orphan after her father's death, Rose Campbell is sent to live at the "Aunt Hill" with...

The Children was written in the year 1928 by Edith Wharton. This book is one of the most popular novels of Edith Wharton, and has been translated into...

South Moon Under was written in the year 1933 by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. This book is one of the most popular novels of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and has...

The Possessed (In Russian: Бесы, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For an explanation of the marked...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in...

The Gentleman from Indiana was written in the year 1899 by Newton Booth Tarkington. This book is one of the most popular novels of Newton Booth Tarkington,...

The Younger Set was written in the year 1907 by Robert William Chambers. This book is one of the most popular novels of Robert William Chambers, and has...

Cranford is a witty portrait of small town life in early-Victorian England. The story unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, a young woman who observes the...

The Bobbsey Twins was written in the year 1904 by Laura Lee Hope. This book is one of the most popular novels of Laura Lee Hope, and has been translated...

Victory was written in the year 1915 by Joseph Conrad. This book is one of the most popular novels of Joseph Conrad, and has been translated into several...

While on the way to a winter break vacation at Snow Camp, Ruth, Helen, and Tom cross paths with a strangely sullen boy named Fred Hatfield. The chum's...

From the "Make-Believe Stories": "Oh, how large he is!" "Isn't he? And such wonderfully strong legs!" "See his trunk, too! Isn't it cute! And he is well...