The Diary of a Young Girl
Author: Anne Frank, a German-Dutch diarist. A true and historically important account by a teenage victim of the Holocaust, Anne's diary published over the years in several edited versions, continues…
The Catcher in the Rye
Author: J.D. Salinger, a 20th-century American author. This twentieth-century coming-of-age novel has been criticized for its irreverent language, but its empathetic and accurate use of that language by the teenaged…
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author: Mark Twain, a 19th-century American writer, humorist, and publisher. The protagonist of this delightful and insightful adventure is the orphan Tom, a mischievous but intelligent boy living with his…
Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley, a 19th-century English novelist Rarely has a novel captured the popular imagination and inspired innumerable adaptations and references across time and space as Shelley’s Frankenstein. Written in…
Pride and Prejudice
Author: Jane Austen, an English novelist of the late eighteenth century. Published anonymously in early nineteenth century England, Austen’s second novel is different from contemporary didactic and moralizing writing, describing…
Paradise Lost
Author: John Milton, a 17th-century English poet and intellectual. Written in unrhymed verse in the seventeenth century, this epic describes the fall of Man from God’s grace through the machinations…
Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens, an English writer of the Victorian Era The touching story of an orphan in early nineteenth-century England, this novel critiques the conditions of the poor and helpless…
Of Mice and Men
Author: John Steinbeck, a 20th-century American writer The heart-rending story of the friendship between two ranch hands during the Great Depression in California, this controversial novel exploring loneliness and shattered…
Oedipus Rex
Author: Sophocles, an ancient Greek tragedian King Oedipus, the 5th century B.C.E. Greek play by Sophocles, narrates the tragic tale of Oedipus, drawing on legends and myths of ancient Greece.…
Nineteen Eighty-four
Author: George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was a 20th-century English novelist. Set in London, in Airstrip One province of Oceania, one of three superstates in the fictitious…