Villette

Charlotte Brontë

English girl travels to teach at a girls' school in France.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

The Mysterious Headless Horseman

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

An exposé of conditions in the Chicago meat stockyards.

Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Utilitarian ideas in pursuit of a profitable enterprise.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Eliza escapes to the North with her five-year-old son Harry.

The Souls of Black Folk

William Edward B. Du Bois

The problem of the color-line.

Viva Voce in Physiology

Dr. Varun Malhotra

Posture is everything.

Gatekeeper

TW Iain

A Dominions Prologue

The Romance of Lust

Anonymous

A classic Victorian erotic novel.

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Lucie Manette learns that her father is alive.

Candide

Voltaire

Optimism as an Ideal.

Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

A journey through the realm of afterlife: inferno.

Emma

Jane Austen

Ms. Woodhouse is content with life & sees no need for love.

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

The never-ending desperation of poor in Paris and London.

Tender Buttons

Gertrude Stein

The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

War and Peace Vol-I

Leo Tolstoy

Pierre is socially awkward and illegitimate.

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

David Copperfield tells the story of his youth.

Etiquette

Emily Post

The Possessed

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Devils

Little Fuzzy

Henry Beam Piper

Jack Holloway lives a solitary life on planet Zarathustra

Meno

Plato

What is virtue, can it be taught?

Opticks

Isaac Newton

Apology

Plato

An account of the Speech Socrates makes at the Trial.