Drácula es una novela publicada en 1897 por el irlandés Bram Stoker, quien ha convertido a su antagonista en el vampiro más famoso. Se dice que el escritor se basó en las conversaciones que mantuvo con...

While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization...

Candide, ou l'Optimisme (1759) is a French satire by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire, English translations of which have been titled Candide: Or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: Or, The Optimist...

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story...

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, along with The Three Musketeers, as Dumas' most popular work. It is...

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where...

Les Misérables (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a twenty year...

Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to...

The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane(1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who...

Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years...

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's...

Germinal est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en 1885. Il s'agit du treizième roman de la série des Rougon-Macquart. Écrit d'avril 1884 à janvier 1885, le roman paraît d'abord en feuilleton entre novembre...

Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains as fresh today as when it was first written, a work that remains unsurpassed in its unveiling of...

Jane Austen’s first novel, Northanger Abbey—published posthumously in 1818—tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen’s...

Nana est un roman d’Émile Zola publié en 1880, le neuvième de la série les Rougon-Macquart, traitant du thème de la prostitution féminine à travers le parcours d’une courtisane dont les charmes ont affolé...

Les Trois Mousquetaires est le plus célèbre des romans d'Alexandre Dumas, il raconte les aventures d'un Gascon impécunieux de 18 ans, d'Artagnan, venu à Paris pour faire carrière dans le corps des mousquetaires....

Les Fleurs du mal est le titre d'un recueil de poèmes en vers de Charles Baudelaire, englobant la quasi-totalité de sa production poétique, de 1840 jusqu'à sa mort survenue fin août 1867. C’est l’une...

Set in Victorian London, this is a tale of a spirited young innocent's unwilling but inevitable recruitment into a scabrous gang of thieves. Masterminded by the loathsome Fagin, the underworld crew features...

Villette is a novel by Charlotte Brontë, published in 1853. After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where...

Hanney, an expatriated Scot, returns from a long stay in South Africa to his flat in London. One night he is buttonholed by an American who appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilise Europe,...

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. Wallace's work is part of an important sub-genre of historical fiction set among the characters...

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Polish-born writer Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski). Before its 1902 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood's...

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. It was first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, and a posthumous second edition was edited by her sister Charlotte. The name of the novel...

Pride and Prejudice is a romance novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgements...

La Bête humaine est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en 1890, dix-septième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Il est le résultat de la fusion d'un roman sur la justice et d'un roman sur le monde ferroviaire,...

The Age of Innocence centers on one society couple's impending marriage and the introduction of a scandalous woman whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions...

Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whaling ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns...

Jane Eyre est un roman de Charlotte Brontë, publié le 16 octobre 1847 sous le pseudonyme de Currer Bell. Le récit, à la première personne, se présente comme l'autobiographie de l'héroïne. Devenue orpheline...

Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred...