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• The Brothers Karamazov

  By Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by Constance Garnett)

  The Brothers Karamazov, also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the sixteenth and final novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Dostoevsky died less than four months after its publication. It has been acclaimed as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.

  96 chapters · About 1519 minutes of published text

• The call of Cthulhu

  By H. P. Lovecraft

  "The Call of Cthulhu" is a cosmic horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. The story is a founding document of the Cthulhu Mythos, a mythopoeia and shared fictional universe expanded upon by Lovecraft and successors.

  3 chapters · About 51 minutes of published text

• The Call of the Wild

  By Jack London

  The Call of the Wild is an adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively more primitive and wild in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primal instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.

  7 chapters · About 138 minutes of published text

• The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

  By Geoffrey Chaucer

  A company of pilgrims riding from London to Canterbury pass the road with a storytelling contest, and the Knight, the Miller, the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner and the rest each tell a tale that gives them away. This edition, with Chaucer's spelling and a gloss in the margin, adds his dream poems and Troilus and Cressida.

  38 chapters · About 1144 minutes of published text

• The Canterville Ghost

  By Oscar Wilde

  "The Canterville Ghost" is a horror comedy short story by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts as "The Canterville Ghost – A Hylo-Idealistic Romance: The Redemptive Heroine", in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887. It later appeared in the short story collection Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, published in July 1891. The story details an American family, who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead English nobleman, trapped for killing his wife, then later being walled in and starved to death by his wife's brothers.

  7 chapters · About 49 minutes of published text

• The Cardinal's snuff-box

  By Henry Harland

  Henry Harland's 1900 romance, set in the hills of northern Italy. A young man named Peter, idling on a bench by a stream, is spoken to by a lady in the grounds of the neighbouring villa, and a story of love, secrets and a cardinal's snuff-box begins. Light, witty and decorative, by the editor of The Yellow Book.

  28 chapters · About 222 minutes of published text

• The case-book of Sherlock Holmes

  By Arthur Conan Doyle

  The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes is the final set of twelve (out of a total of fifty-six) Sherlock Holmes short stories by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle first published in the Strand Magazine between October 1921 and April 1927.

  12 chapters · About 357 minutes of published text

• The Castle of Otranto

  By Horace Walpole

  The Castle of Otranto is a novel written by the British Whig politician and historian and Horace Walpole. First published in 1764, it is generally regarded as the first Gothic novel. In the second edition, Walpole applied the word 'Gothic' to the novel in the subtitle – A Gothic Story. Set in a haunted castle, the novel merged medievalism and terror in a style that has endured ever since. The aesthetic of the book has shaped modern-day Gothic romance/horror books, films, art, music, and the Goth subculture.

  5 chapters · About 150 minutes of published text

• The Chessmen of Mars

  By Edgar Rice Burroughs

  The Chessmen of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in January, 1921, and the finished story was first published in Argosy All-Story Weekly as a six-part serial in the issues for February 18 and 25 and March 4, 11, 18 and 25, 1922. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in November 1922.

  22 chapters · About 379 minutes of published text

• The Count of Monte Cristo

  By Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet

  The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure novel by the French writer Alexandre Dumas. It was serialised from 1844 to 1846, then published in book form in 1846. It is one of his most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers (1844) and Man in the Iron Mask (1850). Like many of his novels, it was expanded from plot outlines suggested by his collaborating ghostwriter, Auguste Maquet. It is regarded as a classic of French and world literature.

  117 chapters · About 1999 minutes of published text

• The Crack of Doom

  By Robert Cromie

  A brilliant scientist's discovery of how to release the energy locked in matter puts the world at the mercy of a madman, and a young pair race to stop him. Robert Cromie's 1895 novel is an early science thriller.

  20 chapters · About 184 minutes of published text

• The crimson circle

  By Edgar Wallace

  The Crimson Circle is a 1922 crime novel by the British writer Edgar Wallace. Scotland Yard tackle a secret league of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle. The novel was first published in The People's Story Magazine, March 10, 1922. The first book edition in the UK was by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1922; and the first US edition was by Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1929.

  43 chapters · About 279 minutes of published text

• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

  By Giovanni Boccaccio (translated by John Payne)

  Ten young Florentines flee the plague of 1348 to a country villa, and each tells a story a day for ten days. Boccaccio's hundred tales of love, trickery and fortune, here in John Payne's translation, are among the great story collections.

  101 chapters · About 1314 minutes of published text

• The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

  By William Morris

  William Morris's first book of poems, from 1858, gives Queen Guenevere's defence before her accusers, Sir Galahad's Christmas vision, the dramatic scenes of Sir Peter Harpdon's End, Rapunzel, and a run of dark and bright ballads of the Hundred Years' War. It includes The Haystack in the Floods.

  29 chapters · About 131 minutes of published text

• The Divine Comedy (Longfellow’s translation)

  By Dante Alighieri (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

  Dante, lost in a dark wood in midlife, is led by Virgil down through the circles of Hell and up the mountain of Purgatory, and then by Beatrice through the spheres of Paradise to the vision of God. Longfellow's unrhymed translation, in 100 cantos, keeps close to the Italian line by line.

  100 chapters · About 483 minutes of published text

• The Duchess of Malfi

  By John Webster

  The widowed Duchess of Malfi secretly marries her steward Antonio against the wishes of her brothers, the Cardinal and Ferdinand. Their revenge on her and her children is one of the cruellest in English drama and drives the court toward a bloody end.

  5 chapters · About 110 minutes of published text

• The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories

  By Algernon Blackwood

  Algernon Blackwood's collection of ghostly tales, from empty houses to old woods. Quiet dread at the edge of ordinary rooms.

  10 chapters · About 290 minutes of published text

• The Enchanted April

  By Elizabeth Von Arnim

  The Enchanted April is a 1922 novel by British-Australian writer Elizabeth von Arnim. The work was inspired by a month-long holiday to the Italian Riviera and was probably the most widely read of her novels (as an English and American best seller in 1923).

  22 chapters · About 340 minutes of published text

• The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

  By Maurice Leblanc

  Maurice Leblanc's 1907 stories introduce Arsene Lupin, the elegant French thief, in a set of daring thefts. A reader finds disguises, escapes and a rogue always one step ahead of the police.

  9 chapters · About 234 minutes of published text

• The Faerie Queene, Book I

  By Edmund Spenser

  The Redcrosse Knight, who stands for Holiness, rides out with the lady Una to kill the dragon that holds her parents captive, and is led astray by the false Duessa and the wiles of Archimago and Despair. Spenser's twelve cantos in the nine-line stanza he invented set the allegory in Faerie Land, and the spelling is the poet's own.

  12 chapters · About 195 minutes of published text

• The Four Million

  By O. Henry

  The Four Million is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released on April 10, 1906, by McClure, Phillips & Co. in New York. There are twenty-five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem". The book's title refers to the then population of New York City where many of the stories are set. O. Henry was responding to a newspaper editorial by Ward McAllister, who claimed that there were only four hundred people in New York City worth knowing, by instead opining that every human being in New York is worthy of notice.

  20 chapters · About 212 minutes of published text

• The Garden Party, and Other Stories

  By Katherine Mansfield

  Katherine Mansfield's 1922 collection includes the title story of a wealthy family's garden party and a poor family's grief next door. Her stories capture moments of feeling with exact detail and a modernist lightness.

  15 chapters · About 248 minutes of published text

• The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

  By Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

  The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a satirical and political novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first published in 1873. It satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. Although not one of Twain's best-known works, it has appeared in more than 100 editions since its original publication. Twain and Warner had originally planned to issue the novel with illustrations by Thomas Nast. The book is notable for two reasons as it is the only novel Twain wrote with a collaborator and its title became synonymous with graft, materialism, and corruption in public life. The novel gave the era its nickname: the period of U.S.

  63 chapters · About 682 minutes of published text

• The gods of Mars

  By Edgar Rice Burroughs

  The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and the second of Burroughs' Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris. It was first published in The All-Story as a five-part serial in the issues for January–May 1913. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1918 and in many editions subsequently.

  23 chapters · About 359 minutes of published text