1800s

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

The Last of the Mohicans

Historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences

Melbourne

Biography of Lord Melbourne, who was British Prime Minister from 1843-1835 and was a kind friend and guide to the young Victoria on her accession

The Seagull

The Seagull (Russian: , tr. Chyka) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue …

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Uncle Vanya

Uncle Vanya (Russian: , tr. Dydya Vnya, IPA: [dd van]) is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1898, and was first produced in 1899 by the Moscow Art Theatre under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski.The play portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger …

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Jane Eyre

Novel by English writer Charlotte Bront, published under the pen name “Currer Bell”, on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London