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.

The time is fast approaching when we can create new creatures from scratch and even human beings, but one must always remember that even though science can create the body from the raw materials available, science cannot create that which makes one unique.

Best known for its influence on literary greats such as C.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the tale of an ancient curse suddenly given a terrifying modern application.

In this classic 19th century story of love battling pride, we meet Elizabeth Bennet.

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

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

The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby.

In the days when hunger could be cultivated and practiced as an art form, the individuals who practiced it were often put on show for all to see.

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

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Henry Lawson (1867-1922) was an Australian writer and poet.

`the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended.

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil from 29 to 19 BCE, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.

When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto builds a marionette, Pinocchio, to be his son, a fairy brings the toy to life.

Bem-humorada, irônica e com críticas sociais, A cidade e as serras revela-se como uma das mais representativas obras de Eça de Queirós, um dos principais escritores realistas portugueses.

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

A group of eccentric friends makes a mess of their shared holiday in this witty novel from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.

Lendas do Sul é uma das mais importantes do obras de João Simões Lopes Neto que foi um dos mais notáveis escritores regionalistas de todos os tempos.

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.

The novel follows young Thea Konborg's growth from provincial Midwesterner to acclaimed international opera singer.

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.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a short story by F.

London, 1920s.

Rip Van Winkle is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819.

Experiencing a story read out loud is one of the oldest forms of entertainment there is.

A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Margot Livesey, award-winning and New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma HardyA compelling historical novel of two families wrestling with questions of honor, class, loyalty, democracy, and independence during the American Revolution, now available in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics Legacy Edition.

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

Originally published in Harte's 1875 short-story collection The Tales of the Argonauts, "e;How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar"e; is set in California in the early 1860s and, like the rest of the tales in that collection, features the gold-seeking Argonauts.

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.

With a contemporary review by R.

But you live like such a fool-of course you're bored!