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
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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
Sentimental Education
Novel by Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life
The Interpretation of Dreams
1899 book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex
Italian Journey
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s report on his travels to Italy from 1786 to 1788 that was published in 1816 & 1817. The book is based on Goethe’s diaries and is smoothed in style, lacks the spontaneity of his diary report and is augmented with the addition of afterthoughts and reminiscences
Dead Souls
Novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature
Middlemarch
Novel by the English author Mary Anne Evans, who wrote as George Eliot
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic poem from ancient Mesopotamia, regarded as the earliest surviving notable literature and the second oldest religious text, after the Pyramid Texts
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol recounts the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the …