Novellas
A Christmas Carol
Life: it will hurt you sooner or later. You can respond one way or the other: with faith in compassi..
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A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet is the first of four full-length novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the b..
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A Tedious Story (From An Old Man's Journal)
Influenced by the death of his brother Nicolay from tuberculosis, Chekhov’s novel..
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An Anonymous Story
An Anonymous Story is a novella published in 1893 that has also been translated as The Story of a No..
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Anthem
Anthem is set in a dystopian future Dark Age in which totalitarianism has extinguished individuality..
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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
In an October 1939 radio broadcast Winston Churchill described his difficulty in understanding the a..
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Billy Budd, Sailor
In 1886, after writing poetry exclusively for 30 years, Herman Melville began work on a story about ..
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Candide, or the Optimism
Is this the best of all possible worlds? The title character in Voltaire’s classic novel, Candide, d..
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Heart of Darkness
Aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, Marlow, the narrator of Heart of Darkness, tells a story..
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In the Penal Colony
“In the Penal Colony” centers on the use of an unusual instrument of punishment invented ..
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My Life: The Story of a Provincial
“My Life: The Story of a Provincial” (1896) is a novella that tells the story of Misail Poloznev, a ..
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Siddhartha
Siddhartha, published in 1922, tells the story of a young man who undertakes a journey of self-disco..
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The Awakening
The Awakening is one of the first American novels that focused on women’s issues and is now seen as ..
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The Call of the Wild
The hero of The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a large St. Bernard-Scotch Collie named Buck, who..
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The Dead
“The Dead” is a long short story by James Joyce that appears as the last item in Dubliners. T..
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The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is a novella by Leo Tolstoy written not long after his religious awakening..
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The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
In “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” a young man from the south, John T. Unger, is sent north to a bo..
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The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man was the fifth novel by H. G. Wells and the third of his remarkable series of five ..
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis tells the tale of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who one day wakes up t..
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The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four is the second of four full-length novels featuring the brilliant Sherlock Holme..
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
It’s rare that a book’s title becomes a staple of popular usage in the way that the phrase “Jekyll a..
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The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic political thriller and one of the earliest examples of the “man-o..
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is a science fiction novel published in 1895 that postulated the noti..
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The Torrents of Spring
"The Torrents of Spring," a novella published in 1926, is a hilarious satire on the romantic and lit..
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The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows began as a series of bedtime stories author Kenneth Grahame invented for his..
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Relativity: The Special and General Theory
The image is popular and general: A young man sits under an apple tree. An apple falls, strikes him ..
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A Doll's House
A Doll’s House aroused a great deal of controversy when it premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenha..
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An Enemy of the People
The term “enemy of the people” has entered our modern lexicon, thanks to the unprecedented attacks o..
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The Metamorphoses of Ovid
The Metamorphoses defies easy classification: it is a Latin narrative poem written in an epic style ..
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A Shropshire Lad
The sixty-three short poems that constitute A Shropshire Lad conjure a pastoral countryside that is ..
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Looking Backward: 2000 - 1887
During the economic and social upheaval of the 1870’s and 1880’s the notion of a better social order..
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Robert Frost: Early Poems
Robert Frost: Early Poems combines the first two of Robert Frost’s published volumes. A Boy’s Will i..
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A Boy's Will
A Boy’s Will is the first book of poems by Frost, published in 1913 when he was in his late thirties..
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North of Boston
North of Boston was Frost’s second book, a collection of seventeen poems published in 1914. It ..
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a collection of poems by Robert Frost first published in 1923 by Henry Holt. It con..
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The Kama Sutra
The Kama Sutra is an ancient Hindu text considered by many as the first and perhaps still the best w..
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The Perfumed Garden
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nafzaoui is a fifteenth-century Arabic sex manual and work of erotic l..
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds,also known as Bird Parliament or Speech of the Birds, is a masterpiece o..
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Meditations on First Philosophy
The Meditations on First Philosophy, which carries the subtitle “In which the existence of God and t..
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title of a translation by Englishman Edward FitzGerald of poems ..
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