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Returning from a sanitarium held in Switzerland, Prince Myshkin finds himself in an interesting love triangle. There are two women in the story, Nastasya and Aglaia. Nastasya is infamous, Aglaia is hungry for money. In this interesting spiral of love...
Fanny Price is accepted into her uncle's house and grows up with her cousins. There are many adventures in this unique adventure that takes place among Sir Thomas's business investments. Fanny Price, who comes into a big family, witnesses many innova...
Anne Elliot has a happy relationship with sea captain Frederick Wentmorth and they get engaged. However, the woman's friend Lady Russell thinks the relationship is extremely inappropriate and spoils it. This separation creates a deep loneliness and r...
This gripping story by the unforgettable writer Edgar Allan Poe tells of Prince Prospero escaping death in the monastery and hiding inside. The reason for hiding is a deadly plague known as the Red Death. He is hiding in...
A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and publi...
"For sheer narrating delight and unadulterated experience, Treasure Island has never been outperformed. From the second youthful Jim Hawkins first experiences the vile Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic fight for treasure on a tr...
The story of Oliver Twist - stranded, and set upon by fiendish and difficulty from his to begin with breath - stunned perusers when it was distributed. After running absent from the workhouse and self important beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself...
So starts the Time Traveller’s surprising firsthand account of his adventure 800,000 years past his very own era—and the tale that released H.G. Wells’s a success profession and earned him his recognition as the daddy of technology...
The story, published in 1854, concerns one Thomas Gradgrind, a "demonstrable truth fanatic," who raises his children, Tom and Louisa, in a grim and arid atmosphere of practicality. Without a moral compass to direct them, children plunge into life of...