The Sonnets

Shakespeare's Sonnets is a collection of 154 poems written by William Shakespeare on a wide variety of themes, dealing with love, beauty, politics, the passage of time, and mortality. First published in 1609 (though many were written years earlier), the collection is one of the most celebrated and analyzed works of lyric poetry in the English language. Unlike traditional Renaissance love poe…

Oliver Twist

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

3.823.0086.B.U

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally serialized between 1837 and 1839. One of the most famous social novels in English literature, it offers a scathing critique of Victorian England’s Poor Law, the hypocrisy of institutional charity, and the grim realities of child labor, crime, and poverty in London's underworld.

Frankenstein

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

3.823.0063.B.U

Dracula

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

-

Collation

-

Series Title

-

Call Number

3.823.0132.B.U

Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is an adventure novel by English writer Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Often credited as one of the first English novels, the book is presented as an autobiography of its title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering isolation, savages, and cannibals before ultimately being rescued. The story was loosely i…

Selected Fairy Tales

Selected Fairy Tales refers to anthologies or canonical collections of traditional folk and fairy tales—most famously compiled by the Brothers Grimm (Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm) in the 19th century (Kinder- und Hausmärchen, originally published starting in 1812). These collections gathered oral folklore from German and European traditions, preserving magical, moral, and often dark narratives th…

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes is the final collection of twelve short stories featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally published in magazines between 1921 and 1927 (and collected in book form in 1927), this volume marked the definitive end of the canonical Sherlock Holmes saga. Unlike earlier collections written in the late 19th and e…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The story is set in Victorian London and follows Dorian Gray, an exceptionally handsome, innocent, and wealthy young man. While sitting for a portrait by the talented and infatuated artist Basil Hallward, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a cynical, charismatic aristocrat. Lord Henry introduces Dorian to a hedonistic philosophy centered on the worship of youth, beauty, and sensual pleasure abo…

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by the iconic Irish author and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 (and heavily revised into a book in 1891), it is a cornerstone of Gothic and decadent literature. Fusing the Faustian bargain with acute psychological insight, the novel serves as a dazzling philosophical exploration of art, hedonis…