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The extremely memorable stories Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass compliment each other well. Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland in 1865 and followed shortly thereafter with Through the Looking Glass in 1871. The first book is about Alice falling down a rabbit hold into a strange fantastical world. There are unforgettable scenes including the Mad Tea Party, Queen's Croquet Game and Mock Turtle Story. Through the Looking Gl...

The House on the Borderland is a supernatural story about an old man in Ireland who explores a cave beneath his house. He travels through space and time and finds a doppelganger of his house. This work is arguably Hodgson's most famous book. Horror writer H.P. Lovecraft named The House on the Borderland as one of his greatest influences. Hodgson's ground-breaking work included horror, fantasy and science fiction. He unfortunately met his untim...

Filled with drama and unexpected plot twists, Collins' Jezebel's Daughter is based on a play, The Red Vial, which was produced in 1858. A story of intrigue, betrayal and misplaced trust, Jezebel's Daughter revolves around Mrs. Fontaine, a sinister widow who uses her dead husband's poisons and antidotes to control the futures of those around her. Who lives and who dies is anybody's guess. Filled with forensic details found in the best detective...

Thought to be Wilde's best work, The Important of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, is a hilarious and poignant satire of Victorian era social hypocrisy. Witty and smartly plotted, Earnest is filled with memorable characters, all centred on Earnest, the fabricated brother of Jack Worthing. Earnest's exploits set off a series of unlikely events that has Jack and others caught up in a web of misunderstandings and mistaken ident...

Set in London, The Secret Agent follows the shadowy exploits of Mr. Verloc, professional spy. Considered one of Conrad's finest novels, The Secret Agent is somewhat visionary, covering terrorism and anarchy more than a century before it dominated world headlines in the 21st Century. One of the characters of The Secret Agent, Mr. Verloc's brother-in-law Stevie, was based on French anarchist Martial Bourdin, who died a gruesome death in Greenwic...

Kate Chopin's novel At Fault explores the subject of divorce. It was published in 1890 and follows a widow who falls in love with a new man, but won't marry him when she learns he is divorced. Instead she convinces him to remarry his wife and then try to make the marriage work. At Fault highlights some of the double standards in society and explores the topic of whether or not divorce is bad. This book is considered to be a precursor to Chopin...

With his creative use of point of view and interior monologue, Henry James brought a new level of depth to narrative fiction. The Europeans is no exception. A light comedy, The Europeans offers a contrast between two visitors from Europe, Eugenia Munster and Felix Young, and their relatives in the New World. The short novel is notable for its comparisons between European and American women in the middle of the 19th century, which sheds an inte...

Though it was never received by the public with the enthusiasm of Jane Eyre, The Professor is Charlotte Bronte's first novel. Following the exploits of William Crimsworth as he finds his way in the world, The Professor greatly influenced Bronte's later novels as she grappled with the stylistic challenge of writing from a male perspective. The story itself is one of inner struggle to discover one's true purpose, as William rejects the life his ...

Charles Darwin's autobiography was first published in 1887, shortly after his death. Because Darwin's family deleted several sections due to content they feared was embarrassing or inappropriate, the first complete edition wasn't available until 1959. Considered the "father of evolution, " his classic book The Origin of the Species describes the process of evolution based on natural selection. Autobiography covers how Darwin saw himself later ...

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A popular turn-of-the-century humorist, Jerome K. Jerome is perhaps better known for his plays than his novels and short stories. The main character of the The Observations of Henry is a waiter who meets a variety of odd people in the coffee shop he works in, from a man whose baby is shown in a dog show to Carrot, who finds that life as a Marchioness is "just like a funeral with the corpse left out." Henry is one of the most entertaining obser...

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Lawyer, social philosopher, author and saint, Thomas More coined the very word "Utopia, " which is part of our everyday lexicon. His most controversial work, Utopia chronicles the travels of Raphael to the imaginary island country of Utopia, which was a play on the Greek words ou-topos and eu-topos, which meant "no place" and "good place." The novel allowed More to cover a range of controversial subjects within this fictional Utopia, including...

Present at a Hanging isn't one of Bierce's most well known stories, but it should be. A peddler stops by the house of old man Baker one day in Lebanon, Iowa. Making arrangements to stay at the Baker home that night, the peddler is never seen again. Neighbours believe it's a case of murder, but is it something more sinister? The answer unfolds seven years later with the appearance of an apparition on the bridge near the Baker farm. The only thi...

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Like most of Wharton's novels, The Age of Innocence is set in New York's high society in the late 19th century. The main character of the story is Newland Archer, a gentleman who is about to marry May Welland. However, he ends up being drawn to May's cousin the Countess Olenska who has left her husband. The story contains social commentary on the life of the upper class. Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for this book, the first woman to receive ...

Originally intended as a serious travel guide, Three Men in a Boat is based on an actual holiday Jerome took along the Thames River with two real life friends, George Wingrave and Carl Hentschel. Perhaps the English author's best-known work, Jerome's book remains as fresh and witty as it was when first written. The jokes are still funny and the local history Jerome writes about on this trip between Kingston and Oxford makes it a valued travelo...

Considered by many to the be first true Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto and Walpole helped pave the way for the popularity of this genre in the later part of the 18th century. Many think that Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and others owe their careers to this Gothic pioneer. At the centre of Walpole's tale is Manfred, lord of the castle, and his family. Just before the wedding of his son to a princess, disaster strikes, an eve...