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After seeing her speak at a political rally Olive Chancellor, spirited feminist, and Basil Ransom, conservative southern lawyer become fascinated with the captivating young Verena ...

Lambert Strether, a middle-aged American, is tasked with persuading his wealthy fiancé's son, Chad Newsome, to return home from Paris and assume his responsibilities in the family ...

The young American Daisy is travelling with her family in Europe and enjoying life. She is courted by the worldly Frederick, who, however infatuated, has his reservations about Dai ...

The small village of Sleepy Hollow is anything but a rural idyll. People see apparitions, hear voices, and, worst of all, are chased by the headless horseman. When the teacher Icha ...

Young Cedric Errol is a kind-hearted and noble-spirited boy living with his widowed mother in New York City. Cedric's life takes an unexpected turn when he learns he is the heir to ...

Nine-year-old Mary Lennox lives a spoiled but joyless life with her parents in India. But when her parents die in a cholera epidemic, she ends up in England, with her enigmatic unc ...

Hester Prynne is publicly humiliated, imprisoned, and ostracized. It is the 17th century, and she lives in the strictly Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston. After giving bir ...

Michael Henchard, a young man of no particular promise, sells his wife and daughter in a moment of drunken impulsivity. Years later, having risen to prominence as the Mayor of Cast ...

Tess Durbeyfield is a young and innocent country girl whose life takes a tumultuous turn when she discovers her noble lineage. Seduced and betrayed by the wealthy Alec d'Urberville ...

Jude Fawley is a young and ambitious working-class man with dreams of pursuing an education and becoming a scholar. His plans are thwarted when he is lured into an unhappy marriage ...

The beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene has no shortage of suitors. She has managed to capture the attention of the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak, gentleman farmer Boldwood, ...

The Wind in the Willows, and its unforgettable characters - Mole, Ratty, Mr. Toad, and Badger - have charmed children of all ages around the world for over a century. Whether the f ...

She has just given birth to their child. He labels her postpartum depression as »hysteria.« He rents the attic in an old country house. Here, she is to rest alone – forbidden to le ...

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran is a timeless masterpiece that transcends borders and cultures with its profound wisdom and poetic beauty. Set in the fictional town of Orphalese, the ...

Molly Gibson, the daughter of a widowed country doctor, is just getting used to life in adult society and the newly sparked attention she is getting from men. She becomes entangled ...

The young Margaret Hale arrives in Milton, Northern England, with her father, who has become a dissenting minister after leaving the established church and a congregation in the ru ...

Mary Barton is the daughter of a proud and militant trade unionist. When she finds herself torn between two men, one a workingclass friend and the other the son of a wealthy mill o ...

Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford whisks readers away to the quaint and charming English town of Cranford, where the rhythms of rural life unfold amidst the tea sipping, gossiping, and ...

Amory Blaine, is a young man navigating the complexities of adolescence and adulthood against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society. As he moves through the ivy-covered halls ...

The Hollywood of the 1930s is a constantly spinning Ferris wheel of business, alcohol, and promiscuity – and a complete lack of morals. Film mogul Monroe Stahr's mode outwardly ref ...

Benjamin Button is born as an elderly man and, as the years pass, becomes younger while those around him grow older. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America, the sto ...

Helga föds 1912 på en enkel sjukstuga i ett litet skogssamhälle i södra Norrland. Hon växer upp i en ödebygd ett par mil utanför samhället. Familjen lever av skogen och ett småjord ...

Ranked 2nd [after James Joyce's Ulysses] on the Modern Library's list of "The 100 Best Novels" Ranked 46th on the French Le Monde's list of "The 100 Best Novels in the World” The G ...

Kriget om mänsklighetens öde har gått in i en ny fas. Den hänsynslöse härföraren Ambrogael har besegrat riket Dômweld och går med sina Nya Serafer mot ett totalt ödeläggande av män ...

”Vad gör ni?””Vi ska på retreat.””Retreat?””Samlevnadsdagar.””Det kan jag verkligen inte rekommendera.””Ammie säger att det är som att gå en promenad iskogen.””Hurdå?””Att vi måste ...