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In what Arthur Conan Doyle intended to be the last collection of short stories about Sherlock Holmes, the Victorian detective is presented with a new set of mysterious cases. The M ...

The eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes steps out of the fog of Victorian London for the first time here, to uncover some of the most intricate and dizzying mysteries in suspense l ...

With no shortage of murders to investigate, the brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes continues to make use of his remarkable talents in clearing mysteries, always accompanied by his ...

Army doctor John Watson has been wounded in the war in Afghanistan. He moves back home to London, and due to his strained finances, he seeks a residence to share with someone. It e ...

Harvey Cheyne, the entitled son of a wealthy industrialist, is thrust into the unforgiving world of a Grand Banks fishing schooner after being washed overboard from a transatlantic ...

Embark on a delightful journey through the eccentric and humorous world of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. This quintessentially British novel introduces the affable and in ...

John Peerybingle lives a modest but happy life with his young and beautiful wife Dot. When he takes in a stranger on the road, Dot is quick to agree and seems to enjoy the mysterio ...

The elderly ticket-porter Trotty is disillusioned by all the wrongdoings he observes in the world. Crime, immorality, and poverty seems to be everywhere, and he has the distinct no ...

In Charles Dickens’s masterful novel Our Mutual Friend, the bustling streets of Victorian London serve as a vivid backdrop for a tale woven with intrigue, wealth, and social strati ...

Charles Dickens's unsentimental and poignant portrayal of London in the early 1800s is simultaneously an uplifting tale and a violent narrative of corruption, degradation, and gree ...

When young Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies in poverty, he must turn to his wealthy uncle for help to support his mother and sister. The uncle reluctantly assists Nicholas in obtain ...

In Little Dorrit, the reader is thrown into the fascinating world of upper class luxury and the hardships of the working class in 19th-century London. The story follows the humble ...

The great classic about the society of the Industrial Revolution. In Coketown, the Industrial Revolution has already transformed into a capitalist nightmare. The affluent Mr. Gradg ...

The orphaned boy Pip's life takes an unexpected turn when, during his apprenticeship with a blacksmith, he receives a large sum of money from an anonymous benefactor. From having r ...

David Copperfield is Charles Dickens's iconic Bildungsroman, originally published as a serial in a magazine from 1849 to 1850. The novel, which has strong autobiographical element ...

Robinson Crusoe, a classic novel by Daniel Defoe, unfolds the gripping tale of a resourceful and tenacious Englishman marooned on a remote island for decades. Set against the backd ...

Moll Flanders tells the story of a beautiful, intelligent woman who seeks to escape her fate amidst the impoverished slums of London. As a woman, her primary avenue for improvement ...

The young Henry Fleming enlists in the Union Army during the American Civil War, harboring dreams of becoming a war hero. When he faces the enemy for the first time, he realizes th ...

In James Fenimore Cooper's timeless classic, The Last of the Mohicans, the rugged landscapes of 18th-century America set the stage for an epic tale of adventure, love, and honor. A ...

James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer transports readers to the untouched wilderness of early 18th-century America, weaving a captivating tale of frontier life and moral challenge ...

In a city teeming with political unrest and foreign intrigues, Adolf Verloc, a seemingly unassuming shopkeeper, is at the heart of a sinister conspiracy. Employed as a secret agent ...

Nostromo unfolds in the fictional Latin American republic of Costaguana, where the English Gould family has controlled the country's sole natural resource, a silver mine, for three ...

The ship Patna has run aground and is taking on water. The 800 pilgrims on board are asleep, oblivious to the crisis and the fact that there are only seven lifeboats. In a panic, t ...

A mysterious encounter on a moonlit road sets the stage for this gripping tale of intrigue, deception, and dark secrets. As art teacher Walter Hartright becomes entangled with the ...

On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verindet inherits a large diamond, which her uncle got in India. She wears it to her birthday party, but the morning after it is gone from her ro ...