1800s

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 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

David Copperfield

Novel in the bildungsroman genre by Charles Dickens, narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield, detailing his adventures in his journey from infancy to maturity

A Tale of Two Cities

1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution

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 …

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Bleak House

Novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between March 1852 and September 1853. The novel has many characters and several sub-plots, and is told partly by the novel’s heroine, Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator