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The Odyssey recounts Odysseus’ journey home after the Trojan War—and the obstacles he faces along the way to reclaim his throne, kingdom, and family in Ithaca. During his absence, his steadfast and clever wife, Penelope,...
With the publication of The Pathfinder in 1840, James Fenimore Cooper engaged in what he called the "hazardous experiment" of reviving one of his most popular characters who had been allowed to die in a previous novel. Natty Bumppo--who had...
Christian, a Pilgrim, undertakes the dangerous journey to the Celestial City, experiencing physical and spiritual obstacles along the way. This is one of the earliest novels to be written, and is more allegory than simple story.
In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English child was born to a rich family of...
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the...
The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as...
Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love... and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring...
Burnett begins with a spoiled and unsympathetic heroine named Mary Lennox. When Mary, a spoiled and unsympathetic child, iis orphaned she is shipped from her home in colonial India to a drab country house in Yorkshire. As she learns to tend the...
Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the world. But as her path leads her ever farther from the small town she can't forget and the man she...
A London lawyer investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil...
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