Don Quixote
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, an eminent Spanish novelist of the 16th and 17th centuries. An epic satire by a Spanish contemporary of Shakespeare, this is a pioneering novel with…
Doctor Faustus
Author: Christopher Marlowe, an English poet and playwright of the 16th century. This immensely popular Elizabethan play drawing on existing German fables, which first staged the concept of selling one's…
The Divine Comedy
Author: Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher from Florence in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Dante lifted the Tuscan dialect, – the foundation of modern standard…
David Copperfield
Author: Charles Dickens, an English writer of the Victorian Era. The story is written in first-person narrative by the protagonist David, beginning with his childhood and continuing with the events…
Catch-22
Author: Joseph Heller, a twentieth-century American novelist. A war novel unlike any other ever written, this darkly comic satire of convoluted logic used in wartime by people undertaking Sisyphean tasks,…
Candide
Author: Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet, a French writer, historian, and philosopher of the 18th century. Written famously in three days using a pseudonym anticipating the subsequent ban in…
Brave New World
Author: Aldous Huxley, an English writer and philosopher of the 20th century. One of the most enduring portraits of a dystopic future often compared with Orwell's '1984', Huxley's world differs…
Anna Karenina
Author: Leo Tolstoy or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, was a Russian Novelist (active 1847 - 1910) who was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Indisputably one of…
Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell, pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist of the early 20th century. A brilliant allegory of Russian socialism under Stalin, this novel written in mid-twentieth…
All Quiet on the Western Front
Author: Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. Written in Germany by a World War I veteran, this novel strips away the idealism, glory, heroism and patriotism…