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Hadji Murad

Lev Tolstoy

In 1851 Lev Tolstoy enrolled in the Russian armed force and was sent to the Caucasus to help rout the Chechens. During this war an extraordinary Avar clan leader, Hadji Murad, broke with the Chechen head Shamil and fled to the Russians for security....

Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Frankenstein is writ...

Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street

Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street which was published on 14 May 1925 is a novel by Virginia Woolf that subtle elements a day within the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I Britain

The Poetics of Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In this text Aristotle offers an account of ποιητικῆς, which refers t...

Walden and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

In 1845, Henry David Thoreau cleared out Concord Massachusetts and moved to a cabin that he built by himself close Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Walden, is an account of his remain within the woods and his encounter. Shedding the minor ties that he f...

Anthem

Ayn Rand

Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic books, and a clear forerunner to her afterward magnum opuses, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand analyzes a startling future in which people have no title, no freedom, and no...

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

"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 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the arrangement of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, where they were first distributed, and won huge prevalence for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The investigator is at the stature of h...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer spins around the young experiences of the novel's student hero, Thomas Sawyer, whose notoriety goes before him for causing wickedness and struggle. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, relative Sid, and cousin Mary in the curio...

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

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...