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• The Sign of the Four

  By Arthur Conan Doyle

  The Sign of the Four, also called The Sign of Four, is an 1890 detective novel, the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 short stories featuring the fictional detective.

  12 chapters · About 187 minutes of published text

• The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

  By Robert Louis Stevenson

  Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and a murderous criminal named Edward Hyde.

  10 chapters · About 111 minutes of published text

• The Thirty-Nine Steps

  By John Buchan

  The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It was serialized in All-Story Weekly issues of 5 and 12 June 1915, and in Blackwood's Magazine (credited to "H. de V.") between July and September 1915, before being published in book form in October of that year. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a knack for getting himself out of tricky situations.

  10 chapters · About 177 minutes of published text

• The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.

  By Anonymous; translated by Edward William Lane

  A king’s deadly vow meets Shahrazád’s inexhaustible storytelling. Merchants, jinn, fishermen, princes and resourceful women move through nested tales of danger, justice, generosity and desire. This is Volume I of Edward William Lane’s English translation, in the illustrated 1912 edition, with its original introduction and extensive notes. It includes the Merchant and the Jinnee, the Fisherman, the Ladies of Baghdád, the Humpback, and Táj-el-Mulook and Dunyà. Lane’s edition is selective; this volume does not contain the entire Thousand and One Nights.

  23 chapters · About 1144 minutes of published text

• The Three Musketeers

  By Alexandre Dumas

  The Three Musketeers is a French historical adventure novel written and published in 1844 by French author Alexandre Dumas. It is the first of the author's three d'Artagnan Romances. As with some of his other works, he wrote it in collaboration with ghostwriter Auguste Maquet. It is in the swashbuckler genre, which has heroic, chivalrous swordsmen who fight for justice.

  67 chapters · About 990 minutes of published text

• The Time Machine

  By H. G. Wells

  The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel intentionally and selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.

  16 chapters · About 140 minutes of published text

• The Turn of the Screw

  By Henry James

  The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 gothic horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly from January 27 to April 16, 1898. On October 7, 1898, it was Collected in The Two Magics, published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. The novella follows a governess who, caring for two children at a remote country house, becomes convinced that they are haunted.

  24 chapters · About 171 minutes of published text

• The War of the Worlds

  By H. G. Wells

  The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells about an attempted invasion of Earth by beings from the planet Mars with much greater intelligence and more advanced weapons than humans. The Martians intend to eliminate mankind and conquer Earth because their own older and smaller world has reached the "last stage of exhaustion". It was written between 1895 and 1897, and serialised in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US in 1897. The full novel was first published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann.

  27 chapters · About 260 minutes of published text

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  By L. Frank Baum

  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's fantasy novel written by the American author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. Upon her arrival in the magical world of Oz, she learns she cannot return home until she has destroyed the Wicked Witch of the West.

  24 chapters · About 170 minutes of published text

• Through the Looking-Glass

  By Lewis Carroll

  Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a novel published in December 1871 by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. It is the sequel to his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), in which many of the characters were anthropomorphic playing cards. In this second novel the theme is chess. As in the earlier book, the central figure, Alice, enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a large looking-glass (a mirror) into a world that she can see beyond it.

  12 chapters · About 127 minutes of published text

• Treasure Island

  By Robert Louis Stevenson

  Treasure Island is an adventure and historical novel by Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. It was published as a book in 1883, but is set in the 18th century, and tells a story of "buccaneers and buried gold". It is considered a coming-of-age story, and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action.

  34 chapters · About 294 minutes of published text

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

  By Jules Verne

  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It was originally serialised from March 1869 to June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's French fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation. A deluxe octavo edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou.

  46 chapters · About 452 minutes of published text

• White Fang

  By Jack London

  White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) about a wild wolf dog's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. First serialized in Outing magazine between May and October 1906, it was published in book form in October 1906. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild (1903), which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.

  25 chapters · About 313 minutes of published text

• Wuthering Heights

  By Emily Brontë

  Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name Ellis Bell. It concerns two extensive upland estates and their landowning families on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff. Driven by themes of love, possession, revenge, and reconciliation, the novel is influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It is considered a classic of English literature.

  34 chapters · About 504 minutes of published text