By Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner and the Spirits of Christmas.
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A tragic play centered on the scholar Faust who makes a pact with the devil Mephistopheles.
By Oscar Wilde
A four-act comedy concerning a virtuous woman who suspects her husband of infidelity.
By Walt Whitman
A seminal collection of poetry celebrating nature, humanity, democracy, and the individual spirit.
By Mark Twain
A memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River.
By Louisa May Alcott
The lives and loves of the four March sisters growing up during the American Civil War.
By Herman Melville
The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale, Moby Dick.
By John Milton
An epic poem in blank verse depicting the biblical Fall of Man and the temptation of Adam and Eve by Satan.
By George Bernard Shaw
Phonetics professor Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a Bedouin flower girl to pass for a duchess.
By Jane Austen
The story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they come of age.
By Benjamin Franklin
The famous memoirs of one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
By Anonymous
The oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC.
By Dante Alighieri
Dante's journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso).
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, depicting narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby.
By Oscar Wilde
A farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae to escape social obligations.
By Nikolai Gogol
A collection of famous Russian stories including the celebrated masterwork about an impoverished clerk.
By W. E. B. Du Bois
A seminal work in the history of sociology and American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois.
By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, telling the story of Hester Prynne.
By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Young Mary Lennox is sent to live at her uncle's estate, where she discovers a neglected, hidden garden.
By Kenneth Grahame
The stories of Mole, Ratty, Toad, and Badger living in the pastoral English countryside.
By Charlotte Brontë
Lucy Snowe travels from England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school.