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The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame

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Author: Victor Hugo Genre: Gothic Literature, Romantism, Fiction. ‘Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.’ Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo’s take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the…

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The Best of Sherlock Holmes

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Genre: Detective fiction. The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fifty-six short stories featuring the arch-sleuth. Basing his selection around the author’s own twelve personal favourites, David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle’s…

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A Midsummer Nights Dream

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Author: William Shakespeare Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Fiction. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare in 1595/96. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (the mechanicals) who are controlled…

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Genre: Detective fiction The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England’s West Country and…

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Les Misérables

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Author: Victor Hugo Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance. Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title. However, several alternatives have been used, including…

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The Three Musketeers

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Author: Alexandre Dumas Genre: Historical, Romance, Fiction. The Three Musketeers is a historical novel by Alexandre Dumas. Set in 1625–1628, it recounts the adventures of a young man named d’Artagnan (based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d’Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. Although D’Artagnan is not…

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Wuthering Heights

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Author: Emily Brontë Genre: Tragedy Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë’s only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846, Wuthering Heights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym “Ellis Bell”; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. Wuthering Heights and Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby before the success of their sister…

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The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas

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Author: John Boyne Genre: Historical fiction, Tragicomedy, Postmodern literature. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a 2006 Holocaust novel by Irish novelist John Boyne. Unlike the months of planning Boyne devoted to his other books, he said that he wrote the entire first draft of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in two and a…