Novels

Alexander's Bridge

Willa Cather
 

Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Lewis Carroll
 

The American

Henry James
 

The Antiquary

Walter Scott
 

Arrow of Gold

Joseph Conrad
 

The Awakening

Kate Chopin
 

Ayala's Angel

Anthony Trollope
 

Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Herman Melville
The story of a legal scrivener, Bartleby, and the havoc his choices create around him.

Beowulf

 

The Black Dwarf

Walter Scott
 

Borderland

 

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett
Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a landowner well known in our district.

Candide

Voltaire
A satiric story about an innocent young man who, with his friends, survives any number of disasters, always continuing their optimistic search.

Charlotte Temple

 

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

William Morris
Of old there was a land which was so much a woodland, that a minstrel thereof said it that a squirrel might go from end to end, and all about, from tree to tree, and never touch the earth: therefore was that land called Oakenrealm.

City of the Sun

Tommaso Campanella
 

Clotelle; or, The Colored Heroine. A Tale Of The Southern States

William Wells Brown
An 1853 English novel that used the injustices of slavery to demonstrate the destructive effects it had on the African American family, most significantly the so-called tragic mulatto.

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

The Crocodile

Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

The Double

Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

End of the Tether

Joseph Conrad
An online edition of End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad.

The Europeans

Henry James
 

Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

John Cleland

The Fisherman and His Soul

Oscar Wilde
 

A Gentle Spirit

Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

The Ghosts of the Glen-Carrig

 

Ghost Pirates

 

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad
 

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift
A satire of travel reporting that was common in the eighteeenth century, including the outright invention of outlandish and "savage" cultures deliberately designed to give Englishmen a critical point of view of their own society and habits.

Hard Times

Charles Dickens
Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.

Heart of Mid-Lothian

Walter Scott
 

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

 

Insulted and Injured

Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

An International Episode

Henry James
 

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott
 

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte
 

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy
 

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair
 

Legend of Montrose

Walter Scott
 

Little Women

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
 

Looking Backward

 

The Magic Door

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
 

Man Alive

Rex Stout
A detective novel which epitomizes early 20th-century serial popular fiction.

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen
 

McTeague

Frank Norris
 

Miscellaneous Prose: 8

 

Maria, or, The Wrongs of Woman

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
 

My Antonia

Willa Sibert Cather
A nineteenth-centur novel of Midwestern American life.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy
 

The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon
 

Middlemarch

George Eliot
 

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky
 

News from Nowhere

William Morris
 

Miscellaneous Prose: 6

 

Oroonoko

 

Nightland

 

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

Of Human Bondage

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
 

Old Creole Days

George W. Cable
 

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

RICHARD FEVEREL
 

Our Mr. Wren: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

Sinclair Lewis
 

Persuasion

Jane Austen
 

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James
 

Penguin Island

Anatole France
 

Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde
 

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen
 

Principia Discordia

Wilson
 

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Mark Twain
 

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe
 

Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

Johnson
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas prince of Abissinia.

The Rover

Joseph Conrad
 

Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy
 

Rob Roy

Walter Scott
 

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy
 

The Secret Sharer

Joseph Conrad
 

A Sentimental Journey

Laurence Sterne
 

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen
 

Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser
 

Through the Looking Glass

LEWIS CARROLL
 

Summer

Edith Wharton
 

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James
The text is from the first American appearance in book form.

The Talisman

Walter Scott
 

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan
The spy novel to end all spy novels -- or actually, the one that began all spy novels.

Tom Jones

Tom Jones
 

Uncommercial Traveller

Charles Dickens
 

The Unfortunate Happy Lady: A True History

Aphra Behn
I cannot omit giving the World an account of the uncommon Villany of a Gentleman of a good Family in England, practis'd upon his Sister, which was attested to me by one who liv'd in the Family, and from whom I had the whole Truth of the Story.

Uranie

 

Utopia

Thomas More
 

The Voyage Out

Virginia Woolf
 

Waverley

Walter Scott