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"The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country." —Henry James"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." —Malcolm Cowley"There could be no more perfect work of the American imagination than 'The Scarlet Letter'”. —D. H. Lawrence"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective — wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the ...

Here you can find our list of the 100 greatest novels of all time.

Dark allegory describes the narrator’s journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad’s finest, most enigmatic story.

"The tragedy of tragedies." —Wang Guowei"['The Dream of the Red Chamber'] is to the Chinese very much what 'The Brothers Karamazov' is to Russian and 'In Search of Lost Time' is to French literature… It is beyond question one of the great novels of all literature." —Anthony West“'The Dream of the Red Chamber' and 'The Tale of Genji' are the two greatest works of prose fiction in all the history of literature." —Kenneth Rexroth"A masterpiece." —Frederic Wakeman"...

"I do not say there is no character as well-drawn in Shakespeare [as D’Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly." —Robert Louis Stevenson"A masterpiece which remains as fresh and living as if it were written yesterday." —Jean Lucas-Dubreton"Dumas had genius of a certain kind — the genius that comes of vigour and a sense of the dramatic." —André MauroisOne of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tell the ...

«The Divine Comedy» is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature.

"The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." —E. M. Forster"[Lawrence] was a language, a setting, a world entirely of his own… He was, like all true poetry, against tepid living and tepid loves… [giving] full expression to the gestures of passion." —Anaïs Nin"Lawrence is the most Dostoevskian of English novelists, in whose best work conflicting ideological positions are brought into play and set up against each other in dialogue that is never simply or finally resol...

"One of the few English novels written for grown-up people." —Virginia Woolf"What do I think of ‘Middlemarch’? What do I think of glory — except that in a few instances this 'mortal has already put on immortality.' George Eliot was one. The mysteries of human nature surpass the 'mysteries of redemption,' for the infinite we only suppose, while we see the finite." —Emily Dickinson"‘Middlemarch’ is probably the greatest English novel." —Julian Barnes"They've [women] prod...

A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son and servant. She lives there in strict seclusion under the assumed name Helen Graham and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham, a young farmer, discovers her dark secrets. In her diary, Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline through alcohol, and the world of de...

"The last word of the landlord's literature and the brilliant one at that." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky"The best ever Russian historical novel." —Nikolai Leskov"One of the most remarkable books of our age." —Ivan Turgenev"This is the first class work!… This is powerful, very powerful indeed." —Gustave Flaubert"The best novel that had ever been written." —John Galsworthy"This work, like life itself, has no beginning, no end. It is life itself in its eternal moveme...

This book contains the (almost) complete short stories of Guy de Maupassant in the chronological order of their original publication.Here you will find the largest collection of Maupassant’s short stories available in English (277 short stories).As you will notice, this book DOES NOT INCLUDE the 65 fake Maupassant stories... stories that weren't written by Maupassant but are always included in all the other so-called complete editions.In order that you can be sure t...

Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he is kidnapped and sold to be a sled dog in the harsh and frozen Yukon Territory. Passed from master to master, Buck embarks on an extraordinary journey, proving his unbreakable spirit...