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…
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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…
Aeneid
Author: Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro, an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period) This epic poem follows Aeneas, – a hero of Greco-Roman mythology, who appears in Homer's epic –…
A Tale of Two Cities
The opening sentence of this mid-nineteenth century historical novel written in England is one the most famous first lines in literature. Set in the background of the French Revolution in…