Classic fiction: general and literary

'I tender these tales of the Jazz Age into the hands of those who read as they run and run as they read.

Written in a decade when American music and literature were exploding in new directions, F.

Once, Hannah Manning was an internationally-renowned journalist and war correspondent.

Written in 1924, The Dream tells the story of a man from a Utopian future who dreams the entire life of an Englishman from birth to his untimely death.

When we first meet Millicent Dorrington she is a young lady on the verge of womanhood in inter-war England.

Commonly considered to be Jack London's tour de force, The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domesticated dog ripped from a comfortable life when he is stolen from his home on a California ranch and forced into service as a member of a dog sled pack.

A satirical thriller about a British adulterer in Russia from the award-winning author of The Bottle Factory Outing.

Valancy Stirling is twenty-nine years old.

The Spraggs, a wealthy family of Midwesterners, are visiting New York City to marry off their beautiful daughter Undine.

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The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757, is a historical action novel published in 1826 by the American writer James Fenimore Cooper.

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'the first and greatest of English detective novels'T.

John Thornton returns home from the war in Iraq, being wounded, suffering post-traumatic stress disorder from his combat experiences and attending the United States Homeland Security School and returns to his job at the Center City, Oklahoma, Police Department as a detective.

This nineteenth-century Russian classic investigates the path of a character held to the highest ideals-those of true Christian love.

War and Peace chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) tells the story of a quaint seaside village and its inhabitants.

Three darkly comic novels from the two-time Whitbread Award winner whose “masterful restraint .

When American millionaire Theodore Racksole and his twenty-three-year-old daughter Nella stumble upon The Grand Babylon Hotel, an exclusive London establishment, they are so struck by the fascinating building that Theodore decides to purchase it.

The Iliad is an epic Greek poem written by philosopher Homer, and is considered one of the oldest pieces of western literature still in existence.

Cork Street, Next To The Hatter's is part of Pamela Hansford Johnson's 'Dorothy Merlin Trilogy', along with The Unspeakable Skipton and Night and Silence, Who Is Here?

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A wounded aviator returns home after his time in World War One.

In "e;Tales of Soldiers and Civilians"e; (1892) American journalist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce describes unusual incidents and scenes in the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War.

Victor Hugo's historical novel captures the lives of those living in Medieval Paris during a time where hangings and public humiliation were part of the foundation of society.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: This psychological drama set in Liverpool during WWII follows the courtship of a US soldier and an English working-class girl.

Originally published anonymously in 1912, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man revealed as never before the color line dividing America, and the price it exacted on those souls who could traverse the two worlds.

An English scientist, known only as the Time Traveler, constructs a machine that allows him to move back and forth through different periods of time.

First released as a serialized work through a Christian newspaper in 1900, Up from Slavery is the autobiography of the respected late 19th century African-American leader Booker T.

The road to life is not an easy path to follow.

`the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended.

Three unforgettable novels from the “subversive and ever-mischievous imagination” of a celebrated British author and five-time Man Booker Prize nominee (The New York Times).