Books Tagged ‘Novels’
Oliver Twist
Subject: Fiction
The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the ̶...
Tags: Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
David Copperfield
Subject: Fiction
David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life un...
Tags: Classics, Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
Ulysses
Subject: Fiction
Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920 and then pu...
Tags: Novels, Literature, Ireland
The Count of Monte Cristo
Subject: Fiction
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte...
Tags: Classics, Adventure, Fiction, Novels, Historical, France
War and Peace
Subject: Fiction
In Russia’s struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `...
Tags: Classics, Novels, Historical, Literature, Russia, War
A Tale of Two Cities
Subject: Fiction
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...
Tags: Classics, Academic, Fiction, Novels, Historical, Literature
MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE
Subject: Fiction
“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 ...
Tags: American, Classics, Adventure, Novels, Historical