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Photo by ClickerHappy on Pexels Few works of twentieth-century literature carry as much weight and mystique as Ulysses by James Joyce. First published in full on 2 February 1922, this…

Photo by Mesut Yalçın on Pexels The Heart of Darkness book is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. First published as a three-part serial in Blackwood's Magazine in…

Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by…

Photo by Anushka Sharma on Pexels The Little Women book is a coming-of-age novel written by Louisa May Alcott. Originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869, the story…

Photo by jack zhang on Pexels More than 2,500 years ago, a Chinese military general and philosopher named Sun Tzu wrote a concise treatise on warfare. That text, The Art…

Count Dracula stands as the most famous vampire in literary history. Created by Bram Stoker in his 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula, this undead Transylvanian nobleman has become the template…

Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under her pen name Currer Bell on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. From the…

  The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. First published in shorter form in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine,…

The Iliad of Homer stands as one of the most enduring works in all of Western literature. This ancient Greek epic poem, composed nearly three thousand years ago, continues to…

Anna Karenina is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. Written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy, it was first published in book form in 1878 after appearing in…