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Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, which takes place 6 months after Alice's trip down the rabbit hole. This time it's a ..

Siddhartha

Herman Hesse

Siddhartha (1922) by Hermann Hesse is a novel whose title character is an exceedingly intelligent young Brahman, a member of Hindu's highest caste, who leads an ostensibly charmed and wealthy life, ye..

The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

The Man in the Iron Mask is part of the d'Artagnan Romances, a series which began with The Three Musketeers. This classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas is set in the 17th century, and features a ..

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis, published in 1915, opens with one of the most famous lines in fiction: "As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in hi..

Flatland

Edwin A. Abbott

Edwin Abbott Abbott's satirical 1884 novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, is "on the surface" an examination of multiple dimensions. Its author, writing anonymously as "A Square" takes us o..

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe is the classic castaway novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719, and it is considered by some to be the first real novel in English. It has inspired adventure lovers and pioneer types ..

The Bible

Anonymous

This is undoubtedly the greatest composition of fiction man has ever created. It has lust, it has jealousy, capriciousness, murder, rape, genocide and war in general. And it also has hope, it has grac..

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem by Homer dating from around the 8th century BC. It takes place during the Trojan war, and it depicts the battles and events that occur during a fight between King Agamemnon a..