Fiction
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel HawthorneA Romance A gothic novel centered around a mysterious, decaying mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, and the family that inhabits it. The story follows...
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Helen Hunt JacksonSouthern California Set shortly after the Mexican–American War, the book explores the life of a Scottish–Native American orphan girl named Ramona. ...
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Johanna SpyriA Story of the Swiss Alps Cornelli is the only child of her widowed yet wealthy father and is used to getting her way. When business calls her fath...
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Upton SinclairA Novel Set in Southern California during the early 20th century and revolves around the oil industry, depicting the rise of an ambitious and ruthl...
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Upton SinclairThe Meatpacking Industry The story revolves around the life of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant who comes to America with his family in search...
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G. K. ChestertonThe Father Brown Series A collection of short stories featuring the fictional detective-priest, Father Brown. Father Brown is a clever and unassumi...
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G. K. ChestertonThe Father Brown Series Father Brown finds himself embroiled in a mysterious case when a famous atheist, Professor Adam, invites him to witness a m...
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G. K. ChestertonThe Father Brown Series A collection of detective short stories featuring Father Brown, a Catholic priest with a keen intellect and a deep understa...
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Charles DickensA Dickens Classic Set in England during the middle of the 19th century, the story follows Philip Pirrip, “Pip” for short, a young orphan. Surroundi...
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Anthony HopeThe Life of an English Gentleman Rudolf V of Ruritania is about to be crowned king when he is drugged on the eve of his coronation and is unable to...
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Charles DickensFor These Times The shortest of Dicken’s novels, Hard Times surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. “M...
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H. G. Wells‘Are we or they Lords of the World?’ One of the earliest works of fiction to detail a conflict between mankind and an extra-terrestrial race, the s...
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Joseph ConradA Tale Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of “pilgrims of an exacting belief.” When the ship starts rapidly ...
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