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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Genre: social novel, romance, fiction. The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London, where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly…
Genre: Romance, Adventure. An abridged version of the tale of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London published in 1903 and…
Genre: Romance, Historical Romance. Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he’d proposed, figuring that she’d be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn’t. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped…
