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Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922. The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Fl ...

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915. It is one of Woolf's wittiest social satires. The novel had a long and difficult gestation and was not publi ...

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's partner, the aristocratic poet ...

Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel ex ...

Pierre and Luce is a novel by Romain Rolland, first published in 1920. Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre ...

Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. S ...

Free Air is a 1919 novel written by Sinclair Lewis. This road trip novel is set in the early twentieth century and follows the experiences of an aristocratic New Englander and her ...

The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis was published in 1915. The Trail of the Hawk, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own n ...

The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1917. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the mai ...

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man is a 1914 novel by Sinclair Lewis. "At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always ...

The Innocents, A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1917. “Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequ ...

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1922. Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured ou ...

My Life: The Story of a Provincial . by Anton Chekhov, was first published in 1896. This English translation was first published as part of the collection The Chorus Girl and Other ...

An Anonymous Story by Anton Chekhov was first published in 1893. This English translation was published in 1917 in the collection The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories. In An Ano ...

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is a book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the worl ...

Ten Days in a Mad-house is an extended investigative essay by Nellie Bly that was published in 1887. In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young repo ...

The Girl with the Golden Eyes is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1834. In this novel, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a versio ...

The Firm of Nucingen is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1837. The novel is part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck ...

The Magic Skin is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1831. Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that f ...

Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set mostl ...

Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humai ...

Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Betty, as one of a complementary pair of no ...

Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie ...

Thaïs is a novel by French Nobel laureate Anatole France published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is sa ...

The Revolt of the Angels is a 1914 novel by French Nobel laureate Anatole France. It is a startling tale in which the fallen angel Arcade schemes to organize a new revolt among the ...