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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court — Mark Twain. A nineteenth-century American mechanic finds himself in King Arthur's world and uses practical knowledge to gain power. Mark Twain's time-travel satire examines monarchy, superstition, technological progress, and the violence beneath romantic images of the past.
Mark TwainNoveleBookA Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens. Lives in London and Paris become entangled as France moves from oppression into revolution. Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, and Sydney Carton face questions of loyalty, vengeance, and sacrifice.
Charles DickensNoveleBookAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain. Huck Finn escapes an abusive home and travels down the Mississippi with Jim, a man fleeing enslavement. Their raft journey becomes an adventure through deception, danger and the moral contradictions of nineteenth-century American society.
Mark TwainNoveleBookAnna Karenina
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina’s love for Count Vronsky places her at odds with family expectations and the judgments of Russian high society. Alongside her story, Konstantin Levin searches for meaning in work, marriage, and the life of the countryside.
Leo TolstoyNoveleBookAround the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne. Phileas Fogg wagers that he can travel around the world in eighty days, accompanied by his resourceful servant Passepartout. Trains, steamships and unexpected detours turn their precisely planned journey into a race against time.
Jules VerneNoveleBookBakonja, Friar Brne
Bakonja, Friar Brne — Simo Matavulj. Before Bakonja arrives at the monastery, he already knows what makes a friar’s life desirable: a good horse, clean linen, a warm bed, meat, wine and the respect of everyone he meets. His relatives have another reason for sending him there. The Jerković family has supplied generations of friars, and the next appointment promises to keep both honour and material advantage within the right branch of the family.
Simo MatavuljNoveleBookBefore Happiness
Before Happiness — Milica Janković. A young woman begins a diary of emotional awakening, disappointment and the search for a place of her own. Milica Janković explores love, social expectations and the years that precede happiness.
Milica JankovićNoveleBook · AudiobookBleak House
Bleak House — Charles Dickens. The interminable lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce draws a wide circle of lives into the Court of Chancery. Through Esther Summerson’s story and the city around her, Dickens exposes the human cost of legal delay, secrecy and social neglect.
Charles DickensNoveleBookCrime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky. In St Petersburg, the impoverished student Raskolnikov commits a crime he tries to justify through an idea of exceptional individuals. Suspicion, guilt and his encounters with others gradually challenge the theory on which he has staked his life.
Fyodor DostoevskyNoveleBookDavid Copperfield
David Copperfield — Charles Dickens. David recounts a childhood marked by loss, harsh treatment, and the search for kindness and independence. Friendships, work, and love shape his passage into adulthood and his understanding of the people around him.
Charles DickensNoveleBookDead Capital
In Dead Capital, a household argument can turn without warning into a discussion of wages, education, or the uses of land. Josip Kozarac brings these subjects together because, for his characters, they are already inseparable. A father's money pays for his son's studies; a young woman's marriage changes the balance of two households; a field left uncultivated becomes a question about the society around it.
Josip KozaracNoveleBook · AudiobookDon Quixote
Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes. A reader of chivalric romances sets out as Don Quixote, determined to become a knight-errant. With the practical Sancho Panza at his side, his encounters turn ordinary Spain into a comic and poignant contest between imagination and experience.
Miguel de CervantesNoveleBookDracula
Dracula — Bram Stoker. Jonathan Harker arrives at a remote Transylvanian castle and discovers the terrifying secret of his host, Count Dracula. Journals, letters and reports trace the struggle to stop a vampire whose influence reaches from the Carpathians to England.
Bram StokerHorroreBook · AudiobookEmma
Emma — Jane Austen. Confident Emma Woodhouse enjoys arranging the lives and romances of her neighbors in Highbury. Her judgments repeatedly go astray, and her attempts at matchmaking teach her how little she understands both other people and her own heart.
Jane AustenNoveleBookFather Ćira and Father Spira
Father Ćira and Father Spira — Stevan Sremac. A village with two comfortable priests ought to have room enough for both. In Father Ćira and Father Spira, prosperity is precisely what makes rivalry so inventive. There is food to exchange, wine to praise, furniture to compare and a daughter in each household whose future can be discussed without anyone admitting to a plan.
Stevan SremacNoveleBookFather Goriot
Father Goriot — Honoré de Balzac. At Madame Vauquer’s Paris boarding house, the ambitious student Eugène de Rastignac encounters the devoted and impoverished Father Goriot. Their intertwined stories reveal the cost of social advancement and a father’s consuming love for his daughters.
Honoré de BalzacNoveleBookFathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev. Arkady returns to his family estate with Bazarov, a young doctor whose nihilist convictions unsettle the older generation. Their visit exposes conflicts over science, authority, love, and the limits of the beliefs by which each generation lives.
Ivan TurgenevNoveleBookFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus — Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein discovers how to animate a body, then recoils from the being he has created. The creature’s search for companionship turns their encounter into a tragic reckoning with ambition, rejection, and responsibility.
Mary ShelleyHorroreBookGreat Expectations
Great Expectations — Charles Dickens. The orphan Pip longs to become a gentleman after entering the strange household of Miss Havisham and meeting Estella. An unexpected fortune raises his hopes while testing his loyalties, shame and understanding of what makes a worthwhile life.
Charles DickensNoveleBookHard Times
Hard Times — Charles Dickens. In industrial Coketown, Thomas Gradgrind raises his children on facts and suppresses their imaginative lives. Their choices and the struggles of the factory workers reveal the human cost of a society governed by profit and rigid utility.
Charles DickensNoveleBookIn the Cells
In the Cells — Svetozar Ćorović. Behind monastery walls, resentment and personal desires challenge the abbot’s authority. Ćorović portrays people whose hopes for freedom and affection collide with strict rules.
Svetozar ĆorovićNoveleBook · AudiobookJane Eyre
Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë. Orphaned Jane Eyre becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall, where her bond with the enigmatic Edward Rochester is tested by secrets and unequal power. Told in Jane's own voice, the novel follows her search for love, independence and self-respect.
Charlotte BrontëNoveleBookKidnapped
Kidnapped — Robert Louis Stevenson. After a treacherous relative sends David Balfour into captivity, he survives shipwreck and finds an ally in the Jacobite Alan Breck. Their flight across the Scottish Highlands tests an unlikely friendship against danger, political suspicion, and the question of David’s inheritance.
Robert Louis StevensonNoveleBookLes Misérables
Les Misérables — Victor Hugo. Jean Valjean struggles to rebuild his life after imprisonment while the relentless Inspector Javert pursues him. Hugo's sweeping novel links his fate with Fantine, Cosette, Marius and the streets of nineteenth-century France, exploring poverty, justice and the power of mercy.
Victor HugoNoveleBookLost Illusions
Lost Illusions — Honoré de Balzac. The young poet Lucien Chardon pursues literary success in Paris while his friend David Séchard struggles in the provincial printing trade. Balzac follows the pressures of money, reputation and journalism as ambition consumes their hopes.
Honoré de BalzacNoveleBookMansfield Park
Mansfield Park — Jane Austen. Raised among her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park, Fanny Price learns to navigate affection, status, and competing expectations. The arrival of the Crawfords exposes the household’s tensions and tests her quiet moral independence.
Jane AustenNoveleBookMoby-Dick; or, The Whale
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale — Herman Melville. Ishmael joins the whaling ship Pequod, whose captain Ahab is determined to hunt the white whale that cost him his leg. A vast sea adventure unfolds into a meditation on obsession, nature, and the limits of human understanding.
Herman MelvilleNoveleBookOliver Twist
Oliver Twist — Charles Dickens. An orphan escapes the cruelties of the workhouse only to enter a London world of pickpockets, exploitation, and hidden family connections. Dickens follows Oliver's struggle for safety while exposing the indifference of institutions meant to protect the poor.
Charles DickensNoveleBook