Great Expectations
Thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel
Novel
Oliver Twist
Published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker
Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform Russian: , tr. Prestuplniye i nakazniye, IPA: [prstplenje nkzanje]) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of …
Notes from Underground
Novella written in 1864 by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is considered by many to be one of the first existentialist novels.The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator , who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg
The Brothers Karamazov
Last novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sister Carrie
Novel by Theodore Dreiser about a young woman who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream
Robinson Crusoe
Novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work’s protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad , encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued
The Three Musketeers
French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas
Clear Light of Day
Novel published in 1980 by Indian novelist and three-time Booker Prize finalist Anita Desai
The Count of Monte Cristo
Adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1844. It is one of the author’s more popular works, along with The Three Musketeers