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Farewell (“Adieu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1832 and part of the La Comédie Humaine. In his startling and tragic novella, Balzac adds to the 19th centur ...

Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humai ...

Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Betty, as one of a complementary pair of no ...

Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie ...

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The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career (it was written in ten weeks, before he turne ...

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, the first one-volume edition was p ...

Ariadne is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1916 as part of the collection The Darling and Other Stories. The story begins on a steamer bound for Sebast ...

Three Years is a novella by Anton Chekhov and was first published in English in the collection The Darling and Other Stories from 1916. Laptev, the rich but unattractive scion of a ...

The Steppe is a Novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1888. This translation in English was first published in 1919 in the collection The Bishop and Other Stories. In a narra ...

My Life: The Story of a Provincial was first published in 1896. A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher cla ...

An Anonymous Story by Anton Chekhov was first published in 1893. This English translation was published in 1917 in the collection The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories. In An Ano ...

The Safety Match is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1922 as part of the collection The Cook’s Wedding and Other Stories. The Safety Match is a true loc ...

The Lady with the Dog is a novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1899. Written while in Yalta, it is considered one of his most famous stories, (also called Lady with Lapdog) ...

Kashtanka is a short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in English 1922, as part of the collection The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories. Kashtanka, a shaggy-dog story penned b ...

The Duel by Anton Chekhov first published in 1891. This English translation was first published in 1916. The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in t ...

Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov is a novella first published in 1892. The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned ideali ...

The Schoolmaster and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov and was first published in English in 1921. Anton Chekhov, perhaps better known as a world famo ...

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is a book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the worl ...

Ten Days in a Mad-house is an extended investigative essay by Nellie Bly that was first published in 1887. In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a youn ...

The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis was published in 1915. The Trail of the Hawk, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own n ...

The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1917. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the mai ...

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man is a 1914 novel by Sinclair Lewis. "At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always ...

The Innocents, A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1917. “Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequ ...

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1922. Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured ou ...