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Don Quixote

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Author: Miguel de Cervantes Genre: Satire, Romance. Complete and unabridged, Don Quixote is the epic tale of the man from La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza. Their picaresque adventures in the world of seventeenth-century Spain form the basis of one of the great treasures of Western literature. Don Quixote, formerly fully titled The…

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the king

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Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Genre: fantasy, action, adventure, epic. The Return of the King is the third and final volume of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, following The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers. (Read More) Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the final part of…

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

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Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Genre: fantasy, action, adventure, epic. The Two Towers is the second volume of J. R. R. Tolkien’s high fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.  (Read More) Continuing the story of The Hobbit, this is the second part of Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring an exclusive cover…

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

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Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Genre: fantasy, action, adventure, epic. The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It is followed by The Two Towers and The Return of the King. It takes place in the…

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Madame Bovary

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Author: Gustave Flubert Genre: Literary realism, erotic literture Flaubert, Gustave Both embodiment and victim of the self-satisfied nineteenth-century French bourgeoisie, Emma Bovary lives in pursuit of something more, like the world depicted in the romance novels that have come to define her. Emma is oblivious to the realities of life, and her romantic delusions and…

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Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass

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Author: Lewis Carroll Genre: Children’s fiction, fantasy Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The…

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Sense And Sensibility

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Genre: love romance. Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was published anonymously; By A Lady appears on the cover page where the author’s name might have been. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, both of age to marry. The novel follows the young…

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Pride And Prejudice

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Genre: satire, romance, fiction. Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story charts the emotional development of the protagonist, Elizabeth Bennet, who learns the error of making hasty judgements and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential. The comedy of the writing lies in…

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The Phantom of the Opera

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Genre: gothic literature, romance, horror, fiction. Under the Paris Opera House lives a disfigured musical genius who uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer. The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in Le…

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Moby Dick

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Genre: fiction, romance adventure, epic, nautical fiction. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 during the period of the American Renaissance. Sailor Ishmael tells the story of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler the Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, the white whale that…