Novel

The Wind in the Willows

Children’s book by the British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternatingly slow-moving and fast-paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals: Mole, Rat , Toad, and Badger

The End of the Affair

1951 novel by British author Graham Greene, as well as the title of two feature films that were adapted from the novel

The Third Man

1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard

Life and Fate

Novel by Vasily Grossman, written in the Soviet Union in 1959 and published in 1980. Technically, it is the second half of the author’s conceived two-part book under the same title

Jude the Obscure

Novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895 . It is Hardy’s last completed novel

The Scarlet Letter

Work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity