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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
Goodreads Rating: 3.85
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two ver...
Aug 28, 2020 Tags: Classics, Academic, Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
by Herman Melville
Goodreads Rating: 3.50
“It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships’ cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it.” So ...
Aug 26, 2020 Tags: American, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Historical
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Goodreads Rating: 4.30
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity fo...
Aug 26, 2020 Tags: Classics, Short Stories, Fiction, Crime, Detective
A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
Goodreads Rating: 4.04
Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to ...
May 08, 2020 Tags: England, Humor, Short Stories, Philosophy, Politics
The Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe
Goodreads Rating: 4.08
“The Masque of the Red Death”, originally published as “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy”, is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first...
Apr 09, 2020 Tags: American, Allan Poe, Horror, Gothic, Short Stories
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Goodreads Rating: 3.82
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Jekyl...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: England, Horror, Mystery, Gothic, Science Fiction
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition
by Edgar Allan Poe
Goodreads Rating: 4.50
Edgar Allan Poe was a master of tales of the mysterious and macabre. From the eerie incantations of “The Raven” to the persistent fright of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” his stories an...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: Classics, Horror, Poetry, Short Stories, Fiction
A Journal of the Plague Year
by Daniel Defoe
Goodreads Rating: 3.57
A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. This novel is an account of one man’s experiences of the year 1665, in which the Gr...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: England, Daniel Defoe, Classics, Autobiography, Health
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
by Oscar Wilde
Goodreads Rating: 4.18
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London, it ...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: Classics, Oscar Wilde, Humor, Drama, Fiction, Plays
Ion: The Dialogues of Plato
by [Greek]Plato
Goodreads Rating: 4.03
In Plato’s Ion (/ˈaɪɒn/; Greek: Ἴων) Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsod...
Apr 08, 2020 Tags: Greek, Plato, Philosophy