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Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.” The life of Gregor Samsa, a travelling salesman, takes a horrifying turn when he wakes up one day to find that he has tran...
View full detailsAnnihilation of Caste
B.R. Ambedkar
Annihilation of Caste is a powerful and uncompromising critique of India's caste system, written by one of the most influential social reformers in Indian history, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Originally published in 1936, this groundbreaking work challenge...
View full detailsPolitics
Aristotle
Politics by Aristotle is a cornerstone of political philosophy, unfolding in dialogues and reflections on the nature of the state, citizenship and governance. Through a conscientious analysis of different political systems-monarchy, aristocracy an...
View full detailsSiddhartha
Hermann Hesse
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.” Siddhartha is a profound exploration of one man's quest for enlightenment in ancient India. Discontent with traditional religious teach...
View full detailsThe Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
“But man is not made for defeat,” he said. “A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” This tremendously famous novella, written in 1952, underlined Hemingway's influence and presence in the literary world. The Old Man and the Sea is a story of fr...
View full detailsTo The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, To the Lighthouse, was widely praised and has remained the most popular of all her novels. It is considered among the greatest literary achievements of the twentieth century. There is minimal action. The novel works t...
View full detailsThe Upanishads
Swami Paramananda
Swami Paramananda's The Upanishads explores ancient Indian spiritual texts, revealing wisdom that has influenced philosophical thought for centuries. Based on Vedic teachings, these sacred writings probe the nature of reality, the self and the uni...
View full detailsAnimal Farm
George Orwell
Animal Farm is a dystopian allegorical novella. It reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, being a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and was against Moscow-directed Stalinism. The nove...
View full detailsPride And Prejudice
Jane Austen
In the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of love and money in marriage where, in spite of many hurdles, eventually love triumphs over 'pride' and 'prejudice'. With a mild satiric tone...
View full detailsThe Professor
Charlotte Bronte
Before Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a classic among her other novels Jane Eyre and Villette. The novel is a trajectory of the protagonist William Crims...
View full detailsThe Best Short Stories
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep”; “Three and An Extra”; “On Greenhow Hill”; “The Limitations of Pambé Serang”; “The Disturber of Traffic”; “The...
View full detailsThree Men In A Boat
Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of loca...
View full detailsWomen In Love
D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a sense of background danger, of lurking catastrophe, continually informs its drama of two couples dynam...
View full detailsThe Return Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen very interesting Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in 1903-04 in the Strand Magazine in UK and Collier’s in the United States. The first story, “The Adventure of the Empty House”,...
View full detailsPersuasion
Jane Austen
In Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last completed novel, unpublished until her death, satire and ridicule become milder and the tone is more grave and tender. This novel depicts her most memorable heroine – Anne Elliot, a young woman of perfect breeding...
View full detailsThe War of the Worlds
H.G. Wells
H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is a groundbreaking science fiction novel that depicts humanity's struggle against a devastating alien invasion. Set in late 19th-century England, it narrates the catastrophic arrival of Martians, showcasing the e...
View full detailsThe Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
Published in 1759, The Theory of Moral Sentiments provides a philosophical framework for Adam Smith's later works, including The Wealth of Nations (1776). The book showcases his interest in the human virtue of benevolence, contrary to his image of...
View full detailsThe Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri's The Inferno is the first part of his epic Divine Comedy, which takes readers on a journey through Hell. Guided by the Roman poet Virgil, Dante traverses the nine circles of the damned, reflecting on humanity's moral and spiritual...
View full detailsThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is thought to have been first performed in 1606. This play was penned the play during the region of James V1, who wa...
View full detailsThe Picture Of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic and moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde. This is the only novel he wrote and published in 1891 after heavy editing because critics and editors deemed it immoral and indecent. However, it flourished to be a mas...
View full detailsThe Prophecies of Nostradamus
Nostradamus
The Prophecies of Nostradamus, first published in 1555, is a captivating collection of cryptic predictions that has fascinated readers for centuries. Comprising quatrains that intertwine poetic imagery with prophetic insight, the work addresses a ...
View full detailsThe Best Of Saki
Saki (H.H. Munro)
The book contains the best short stories written by Hector Hugh Munro under his pen name, Saki. "Reginald" was written after he had given up foreign reporting and settled in London. It features three short stories "Reginald at the Theater"; "Regin...
View full detailsMrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway, marks an important stage in her development as a writer. In this novel she finally departs from the form of the traditional English novel, establishing herself as a writer of genius. Her stream of consc...
View full detailsFar From The Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
The story revolves around young and amorous but capricious Bathsheba Everdene and her enviable problem of coping with her three suitors simultaneously. The first is shepherd Gabriel Oak, financially ruined by his sheepdog driving his flock over a ...
View full detailsHeidi
Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri's Heidi, a beloved classic of children's literature, unfolds in the breathtaking Swiss Alps, where a young orphan named Heidi is sent to live with her gruff grandfather in a remote mountain cabin. Through heartfelt and often life-cha...
View full detailsThe Railway Children
E. Nesbit
“I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.” Edith Nesbit's The Railway Children, a beloved classic of children's literature, unfolds the lives of three siblings—Roberta, Peter and Ph...
View full detailsThe Time Machine
H.G. Wells
The Time Machine is a social allegory set in the year 802701 A.D., describing a society divided into two classes, the subterranean workers, called Morlocks, and the decadent Eloi. The central character, referred to throughout as the Time Traveller...
View full detailsDubliners
James Joyce
Dubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, Grant Richards in late 1905. After initial enthusiasm for the book, Richards became uncomfortable about sex...
View full detailsA Tale Of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
When the starving French masses rise in hate to overthrow a corrupt and decadent government, both the guilty and innocent become victims of their frenzied anger. Soon nothing stands in the way of the chilling figure they enlist for their cause - L...
View full detailsWar & Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's conquest and the French invasion of Russia, War and Peace is one of the best-known historical works, written over the course of six years and translated into numerous languages. It delves into the complexitie...
View full detailsMan And Superman
George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman, a four-Act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based on the Don Juan theme. It deserves the position of Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece. The plot revolves aro...
View full detailsFrankenstein
Mary Shelley
When Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infusing life into matter, and created a living thing out of an assemblage of bones from charnel houses, little ...
View full detailsThe Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894 by Arthur Conan Doyle. In the American edition there are eleven stories, while in others there are twelve. All these stories appeared in the St...
View full detailsOrlando
Virginia Woolf
It is a fantasy novel published in 1928. It traces the career of the androgynous Orlando through four centuries from the late sixteenth century. It contains a great many well-observed literary and historical insights into the ages through which it...
View full detailsOliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist, Dickens's critique of the harsh Poor Law of 1834, and a grim picture of the sordid reality the London underworld of Dickens's times, shows Dickens's deep concern for the underprivileged. The only token of identity left by his dying m...
View full detailsJacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
Jacob Flanders is flawed, but also quite a brilliant man. An embodiment of solitude, Jacob is unable to concoct his affinity in life for traditions, contemporary society, intimacy with women, and philosophical contemplations. His life from childho...
View full detailsThe Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch both our intellect and our emotions, is an unforgettable mythic tale of a boy Mowgli, the fearless man-cub, looking for where...
View full detailsKing Solomon'S Mines
H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon’s Mines, the first English adventure novel set in Africa describes a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. The novel is Allan Quatermai...
View full detailsAround The World In Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the story of a rich English gentleman living a life of modesty and solitude. Phileas Fogg accepts a challenge from his fellow members at the Reform Club and sets of...
View full detailsThe Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his most famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The individual stories had been serialized in The Strand Magazine between June 1891 and...
View full detailsSense And Sensibility
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, the first of Austen’s novels to be published, remains as fresh as ever it was. The basic theme of the novel is concerned with the personalities of the two sisters of contrasting temperaments who share comparable experiences ...
View full detailsA Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway's words strike you, each one, as if they were pebbles fetched fresh from a book.' In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway's most celebrated novel, his stark and emotive style of writing reaches its zenith. The plot follows the doomed lov...
View full detailsThe Odyssey
Homer
“But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.” Composed in the 8th century BCE, Homer's The Odyssey narrates the arduous journey of Odysseus, the ...
View full detailsThe Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Rated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain’s classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of Mississippi frontier life, combining picaresque adventure with challenging satire and great innovative p...
View full detailsNineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian fiction portraying a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, through government surveillance and continuous public mind control. Oceania ...
View full detailsJourney To The Centre Of The Earth
Jules Verne
Journey to the Centre of the Earth published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre is the second book in Verne's popular science-fiction series Voyages Extraordinaires (1863-1910). The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock wh...
View full detailsSons And Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers is considered to be D.H. Lawrence’s first mature novel. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insights into the complex relationships between son and mother and between son and other women. Novel is largely ...
View full detailsNorthanger Abbey
Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey, written during the same period as Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, represents Jane Austen's genius at its freshest and most enchanting. It grew out of her distaste for the absurdities of the novels of her time and i...
View full detailsLittle Women
Louisa May Alcott
Louisa M. Alcoa, (29th November, 1832, Germantown, 6th March, 1888, Pennsylvania Boston, Massachusetts), Was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet, best known for the children's books, especially the classic Little Women (1868) and it...
View full detailsA Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
James Joyce
James Joyce was and remains unique among novelists for whatever he published was a masterpiece. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a key work of twentieth century literature that remains as fresh, challenging and relevant as the day it was...
View full detailsA Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
“You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.” Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House is a groundbreaking play that explores marriage, identity and societal norms within a seemingly perfect home. Centred...
View full detailsTreasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island, a wonderfully crafted edition of Stevenson’s classic adventure story, is known for its great plot, immortal characters and vivid images. Its captivating story, that holds the readers’ interest throughout, relates of a great treasu...
View full detailsThe Age Of Innocence
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, The Age of Innocence is a social satire, a bitter-sweet romance, bringing to life the grandeur and hypocrisy of the stuffy upper crust of 1870s New York. Rich, intriguing and beautifully written,...
View full detailsMadame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Once considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert’s exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman’s gradual corruption and the human mind in search of transcendence. Unhappily married to a devoted, clumsy local doctor, Emma fulfils her epicurea...
View full detailsWuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights is a classic tale of possessive and thwarted passion, one of the forerunners of today's soap operas and romance novels. The tempestuous and mythic story of Catherine Earnshaw, the precocious daughter of the house, and the ruggedl...
View full detailsThe Invisible Man
H.G. Wells
This nightmarish tale by H.G. Wells contains all the suspense and adventure of science fiction at its best. It begins with a quiet country inn and a mysterious stranger, his features masked by gloves, dark glasses, and bandages that completely cov...
View full detailsMansfield Park
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park is a unique novel in its moral design, with a heroine remarkably different from the author’s previous creations. This young lady, Miss Fanny Price, the eldest daughter of a large improvident family, is brought to live at Mansfield P...
View full detailsJane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion and thrill and created one of the most unforgettable heroines of all the times. When her first novel, The Profes...
View full detailsHard Times
Charles Dickens
“Let us strike the keynote, Coketown, before pursuing our tune... It was a town of machines and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever, and never got uncoiled...” — Hard Times The novel is set in the...
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