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The Duel by Anton Chekhov was first published in 1891. This English translation was first published in 1916 as part of the collection The Duel and Other Stories. The plot centres a ...

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 Elixir of Life is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, first published 1830, about eternal life. However, this is an eternal life story with a horrific twist. The Elixir of Life ...

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 ...

Sarrasine is a novella by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1830. The tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s shocking journey to his coming of age. As o ...

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. This English edition was first published in 1911. Begi ...

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 ...

Gobseck is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1830. Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is th ...

Farewell (“Adieu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1832 and part of the La Comédie Humaine. In his startling and tragic novella, Balzac adds to the 19th centur ...

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 ...

Penguin Island is a satire novel by French Nobel laureate Anatole France, first published in 1908. The Novel is written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history b ...

The Mill on the Floss is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1860. The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Flos ...

Felix Holt, The Radical is a social novel by George Eliot, first published in 1866. Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mo ...

Romola is a novel by George Eliot, first published in 1863. Romola is a historical novel set in the fifteenth century, and is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an ...

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. The novel has remained in print ever since, and is used in university st ...

Silas Marner is a novel George Eliot first published in 1861. Reputed as Eliot’s favourite novel Silas Marner is set in the early years of the 19th century. Marner, a weaver, is a ...

Scenes of Clerical Life is a novel by George Eliot first published in 1858. Scenes of Clerical Life, was the first published fiction by George Eliot. It consists of three novellas ...