Novels Books
Mansfield Park
Jane AustenMansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel featuring one Fanny Price, a young woman with no social power. She barely exists, even to the people she knows - and her family generally keeps in her place...
Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works
Jane AustenLove and Freindship is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. These still exist, one in the Bodleian Lib..
Northanger Abbey
Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, in 1803. However, it was not published until after her death in 1817, along with another novel of hers, Persuasi..
Lady Susan
Jane AustenLady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This early complete work, which the author never submitted for publication, describes the ..
Persuasion
Jane AustenPersuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose fa..
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James JoyceIn 1916, at the age of thirty-two, James Joyce published the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The work would establish Joyce as a leader in the movement know as lit..
Burning Daylight
Jack LondonBurning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the ..
The Cruise of the Dazzler
Jack LondonThe Cruise of the Dazzler is an early novel by Jack London, set in his home city of San Francisco. It is considered a boy's adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life ..