The Good Earth
Historical fiction novel by American author Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in a Chinese village in the early 20th century
Novel
The Master and Margarita
Novel by Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940 during Stalin’s regime
A Little Princess
Children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story “Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s”, which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from December 1887, and published in book form in 1888. According to Burnett, after she composed the 1902 play A Little Un-fairy Princess based on that story, her publisher asked that she expand the story as a novel with “the things and people that had been left out before”. The novel was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts and the full title A Little Princess: Being the Whole Story of Sara Crewe Now Being Told for the First Time.
The Secret Garden
Novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine . Set in England, it is one of Burnett’s most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children’s literature
The Tartar Steppe
Novel by Italian author Dino Buzzati, published in 1940.The novel tells the story of a young officer, Giovanni Drogo, and his life spent guarding the Bastiani Fortress, an old, unmaintained border fortress
Invisible Cities
Novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino
The First Man
Albert Camus’ unfinished final novel
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Last novel by Roberto Bolao
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
American children’s novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow
Vacuum Diagrams
Collection of science fiction short stories by British writer Stephen Baxter