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A sharp, funny novel of manners about the Bennet sisters, marriage, and misjudging people on first impressions.
An orphaned girl's coming-of-age story, narrated in her own voice, from a harsh boarding school to a mysterious household.
A young Englishwoman's trip to Italy unsettles the rigid social expectations she's supposed to return home to.
A poor former student commits a murder he's convinced is justified, then unravels under the weight of his own guilt.
A mystery novel built around a stolen mummy, a murder, and an inquest that only raises more questions.
A historical adventure novel set during the Jacobite rising, following a young Englishman drawn into rebellion.
Shakespeare's tragedy of two feuding families and the two teenagers whose love becomes its final casualty.
A narrative poem of Scottish highland romance, rivalry, and disguise, told in six cantos.
The composer's own account of his early life, dictated to his wife, covering 1813 to 1850.
A scientist assembles and animates a living creature, then abandons it — and spends the rest of the novel paying for that abandonment.
Told entirely through letters, diaries, and newspaper clippings, a young solicitor's visit to a Transylvanian count unravels into a hunt for a vampire.
A girl follows a talking rabbit down a hole into a world where logic runs backward and everyone she meets is a little bit mad.
A masked figure haunting the Paris Opera House becomes obsessed with a young singer, in the gothic mystery that inspired the musical.
Three brothers, a murdered father, and a trial that becomes an argument about faith, doubt, and free will — split here into its 12 original books rather than individual chapters.
A philosophical work, not a novel — Nietzsche challenges the assumptions behind traditional morality one aphorism at a time.