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• The Seven Seas

  By Rudyard Kipling

  Kipling's 1896 volume sings of the sea and the empire in A Song of the English, McAndrew's Hymn, The Mary Gloster, The Last Chantey and The Rhyme of the Three Sealers. Its Barrack-Room Ballads are left out here, as they have a book of their own.

  24 chapters · About 80 minutes of published text

• 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 Small House at Allington

  By Anthony Trollope

  The Small House at Allington is a novel by the English writer Anthony Trollope. It first appeared as a serial in the Cornhill Magazine, running from the July–December 1862 issue to the July–December issue of the following year. In 1864 it was published as an independent work in two volumes. It is the fifth book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, preceded by Framley Parsonage and followed by The Last Chronicle of Barset. It enjoyed a revival in popularity in the early 1990s when the British prime minister, John Major, declared it his favourite book.

  60 chapters · About 1113 minutes of published text

• The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere

  By José Rizal (translated by Charles E. Derbyshire)

  Returning to Manila after seven years in Europe, Crisostomo Ibarra finds his father dead and the colony ruled by friars. Jose Rizal's 1887 novel, in this early English version, helped start the Philippine revolution.

  63 chapters · About 686 minutes of published text

• The Song Celestial (the Bhagavad-Gita)

  By Vyasa (translated by Edwin Arnold)

  On the field of Kurukshetra the warrior Arjuna loses heart at the sight of his kinsmen in the opposing army, and his charioteer Krishna reveals himself as God and teaches him the paths of action, devotion and knowledge. Sir Edwin Arnold's 1885 verse translation was long the way English readers met the Gita.

  18 chapters · About 84 minutes of published text

• The Song of Hiawatha

  By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Longfellow's long poem tells the life of Hiawatha, the Ojibwe hero, from his boyhood among the animals through his fasting, his fishing and the wedding feast to the coming of the white man, and does so in unrhymed trochees borrowed from the Kalevala. It was one of the best-selling poems of the 19th century.

  23 chapters · About 137 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 String of Pearls; Or, The Barber of Fleet Street. A Domestic Romance.

  By James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest

  The Victorian penny dreadful that gave the world Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street, first serialised in 1846-47. A reader finds missing customers, a pie shop nearby and breathless, lurid melodrama.

  177 chapters · About 1888 minutes of published text

• The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island

  By Johann David Wyss

  The Swiss Family Robinson is a novel by the Swiss author Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies. The ship's crew is lost, but the family and several domestic animals survive. They make their way to shore, where they build a settlement, undergoing several adventures before being rescued; some refuse rescue and remain on the island.

  57 chapters · About 531 minutes of published text

• The Taming of the Shrew

  By William Shakespeare

  A drunken tinker is tricked into believing he is a lord and is shown a play, in which Petruchio comes to Padua to marry the sharp-tongued Katherina so that her gentler sister Bianca can be courted. His methods of taming her have been argued over ever since.

  6 chapters · About 96 minutes of published text

• The Task, and Other Poems

  By William Cowper

  Cowper's blank-verse Task takes up a sofa, a timepiece, a garden and the winter evenings and walks of the English countryside, and meditates on rural life and the moral state of England. The volume also has the comic ballad of John Gilpin's ride and the poet's lines To Mary.

  9 chapters · About 178 minutes of published text

• The Tempest

  By William Shakespeare

  Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, has lived twelve years on an island with his daughter Miranda, the spirit Ariel and the creature Caliban. When his enemies are shipwrecked on the shore by his magic, he arranges a courtship, a rebellion and a reckoning before deciding to give up his art.

  6 chapters · About 75 minutes of published text

• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

  By Anne Brontë

  The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel written by the English author Anne Brontë. It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it was an instant success, but after Anne's death, her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication in England until 1854.

  53 chapters · About 715 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 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 Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

  By Mark Twain

  Mark Twain's 1894 novel set in Dawson's Landing on the Mississippi. Two babies, one white and one the child of an enslaved woman, are swapped in the cradle. A lawyer with a fingerprint hobby is the only man who can untangle it. A dark satire of race and law.

  21 chapters · About 224 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 Valley of Fear

  By Arthur Conan Doyle

  The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The backstory is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, and it was first published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February 1915, and illustrated by Arthur I. Keller.

  14 chapters · About 250 minutes of published text

• The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy

  By Marjorie Bowen

  The Viper of Milan is a 1906 historical novel by the British writer Marjorie Bowen. Written when she was sixteen it received a number of rejections from publishers before its eventual publication. It proved a bestseller and launched her on a prolific career involving many popular successes. It is set in Renaissance Italy during the fourteenth century. It portrays the relentless rivalry between Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan and Mastino della Scala, a dispossessed ruler of Verona.

  34 chapters · About 413 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 humankind 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 warlord of Mars

  By Edgar Rice Burroughs

  The Warlord of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in June, 1913, going through five working titles; Yellow Men of Barsoom, The Fighting Prince of Mars, Across Savage Mars, The Prince of Helium, and The War Lord of Mars.

  15 chapters · About 248 minutes of published text

• The Wife, and Other Stories

  By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (translated by Constance Garnett)

  Constance Garnett's translation of Chekhov stories, among them 'The Wife', 'A Dreary Story' and 'The Man in a Case'. Provincial doctors, landowners and clerks muddle through marriage and duty. Understated, humane and very funny at turns.

  9 chapters · About 333 minutes of published text

• The Wild Duck

  By Henrik Ibsen (translated by Eleanor Marx Aveling)

  Gregers Werle, newly returned home, decides to open the eyes of his old friend Hjalmar Ekdal to the secret on which his comfortable marriage rests. His mission to make a household live in truth has devastating results for the girl who loves her pet wild duck.

  5 chapters · About 137 minutes of published text