Howards End
Author: E.M. Forster, a British writer of the twentieth century. This is a tale of three families in the early twentieth century, — the Schlegels of German extraction, the English…
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Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury, a 20th-century American author, and screenwriter. The story envisions an apocalyptic future, a favorite theme with Bradbury, where books are burnt to obliterate knowledge, literature, and philosophy,…
Emma
Author: Jane Austen, an English novelist of the late eighteenth century. The protagonist of this delightful early-nineteenth-century English novel from the queen of comedy of manners is the spoiled but…
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…