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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold.
Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an X, schooners, the Black...
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Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë's only novel, was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell".
AlthoughWuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, contemporaneous reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark...
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The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home.
In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement, and...
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Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) is a novel by American writer Mark Twain.
Its central intrigue revolves around two boys - one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house.
The two boys, who look similar, are switched at...
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The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain.
It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States.
The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction.
Set in 1537, it tells the story of two...
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Our Mutual Friend, written in the years 1864-65, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis.
It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.
It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy.
In the novel Tom Sawyer...
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The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive.
It was...
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After a long series of civil dissension--after many battles, whose issue involved the fate of thousands--after the destruction of nearly all the English nobility in the contest between the two Roses, the decisive battle of Bosworth Field was fought on the 22d of August,...
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Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but even then no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the...
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'HO, Diomed, well met! Do you sup with Glaucus tonight?' said a young man of small stature, who wore his tunic in those loose and effeminate folds which proved him to be a gentleman and a coxcomb.
'Alas, no! dear Clodius; he has not invited me,' replied Diomed, a man of...
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.
The book is sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that on the ship's previous voyage bit off...
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The position of Ancient Egypt was unique, not in one, but in every sense. To begin at the very foundation of life in that country, we find that the soil was unlike any other on earth in its origin. Every acre of fruitful land between the first cataract and the sea had...
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These strange facts would never have been placed on record, nor would this exciting chapter of an eventful life have been written, except for two reasons: first, because the discovery I made has been declared to be of considerable importance to scientists, bibliophiles,...
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The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author of "Shakespeare's plays," has now been for fifty years before the learned world. Its advocates have met with less support than they had reason to expect. Their methods, their logic, and their hypotheses closely...
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known asThe Pickwick Papers) was Charles Dickens's first novel.
He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836.
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David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens.
The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation ofDavid Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery.
It was first published as a serial in 1849-50, and as a book in...
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Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death.
The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower their expenses and get out of debt.
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Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in...
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Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, in 1803.
However, it was not published until after her death in 1817, along with another novel of hers, Persuasion.
Northanger Abbey is a satire of Gothic novels, which were quite...
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