When strange attacks on ships stir fear across the globe, French scientist Pierre Aronnax sets out with his loyal servant Conseil and daring harpooner Ned Land to uncover the mystery....

Sara has lived like a princess with her wealthy father Captain Crewe in India. She lost her mother when she was born but she hardly felt the pain of her...

A Room of One s Own is a long feminist essay by Virginia Woolf which was first published in 1929. Woolf based her polemic on two lectures she delivered to...

Declared unfit for military life after an injury in the Anglo-Afghan War, Dr. Watson returns to London. He is hunting for a thrifty rented place when a friend introduces him...

Sitting on the riverbank beside her elder sister, who is reading a book with no pictures or conversations, Alice is feeling extremely bored when suddenly, she spots a white rabbit....

When aging siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert request an orphanage through a friend to send them a boy to help on the farm, their message is totally misconstrued. Who they...

A translation of the 16th century Spanish novel called Lazarillo de Tormes by an anonymous author

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is a young thinking person who believes that he is above the normal moral order. He begins on a risky journey-a first-hand exploration of the laws of...

Set in a provincial Russian town, Demons (also known as The Devils and The Possessed), follows a circle of revolutionaries led by Pyotr Verkhovensky, a cunning agitator who orchestrates a...

Jonathan Harker, an English solicitor, visits Transylvania, Romania, to help Dracula, a local count, buy a house in London. It does not take him long to find out that his...

Dubliners is a masterful collection of fifteen short stories that capture the lives of ordinary Dubliners with striking realism and emotional depth. Written when Joyce was just twenty-five, the collection...

Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.