Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out is a classic children's novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. It is the final book in the informal Little Women trilogy (Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys). Set ten years after the events of Little Men, the novel catches up with the grown-up students of Plumfield Estate School as they navigate careers, romances, heartbreaks, and …
Orlando: A Biography is a groundbreaking, genre-defying modernist novel by English author Virginia Woolf, published in 1928. Written as a playful love letter and biographical tribute to her close friend and lover, poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, the novel spans over three centuries, blending historical satire, fantasy, and deep philosophical reflections on gender, identity, and the fluid…
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1886. Set in foggy, Victorian London, the story explores the dual nature of humanity, morality, and the destructive consequences of suppressing or unleashing one's darker impulses. It remains one of the most famous pieces of horror and psychological literature ever written, giving b…
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by the poet Virgil between 29 and 19 BCE. It tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan warrior who survived the fall of Troy and was fated to travel to Italy to become the ancestor of the Roman people.
The Last Tycoon (originally published as The Last Tycoon: An Unfinished Novel) is the final, unfinished masterwork of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Left incomplete upon Fitzgerald's sudden death in 1940 and later edited and published by his friend Edmund Wilson, the novel is widely regarded as one of the greatest fictional indictments of Hollywood's Golden Age—capturing the intoxicatin…
Anne of Green Gables is a beloved classic children's novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, published in 1908. Set in the late 19th century on Prince Edward Island, Canada, the novel follows the imaginative, talkative, and fiercely independent orphan girl Anne Shirley as she accidentally finds her way into the hearts of an aging brother and sister and transforms the rustic rural communi…
The Happy Prince and Other Stories is a celebrated collection of fairy tales by Irish author Oscar Wilde, published in 1888. Illustrated originally by Walter Crane and Jacomb Hood, the collection includes five enchanting, melancholic, and deeply allegorical stories: "The Happy Prince," "The Nightingale and the Rose," "The Selfish Giant," "The Devoted Friend," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Blendi…
Life on the Mississippi, published in 1883 by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), is a brilliant, episodic blend of memoir, travelogue, and social history. It chronicles Twain’s youthful days as a daring steamboat pilot on the mighty Mississippi River and his return trip years later to witness how the river, the towns, and the American spirit had transformed.
One of Shakespeare’s grandest and most geographically sweeping tragedies, Antony and Cleopatra explores the colossal collision between duty and desire, East and West, and Roman political ambition against Egyptian passion. Set against the backdrop of the shifting Roman Empire, the play charts the legendary, turbulent romance of two of history's most magnetic figures as they face the inexorable…
Widely regarded as one of Charles Dickens’s supreme literary masterpieces, Bleak House is a vast, intricately plotted state-of-the-nation novel. Blending a gripping detective mystery with a searing social satire, the story exposes the soul-destroying corruption of the British legal system, the vast chasms of Victorian class inequality, and the human cost of institutional indifference.