Novel

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Novella about the life of a school teacher, Mr. Chipping, written by English writer James Hilton and first published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 1934. It has been adapted into two feature films and two television presentations.

Les Miserables

French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century

Brave New World

Dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story’s protagonist

A Farewell to Arms

Novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army

The Old Man and the Sea

Novella written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cayo Blanco , and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime

Oblomov

Second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature