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King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines chronicles the adventures of treasure hunters in an unexplored region in South Africa. English novelist Sir Henry Rider Haggard's action hero Allan Quatermain leads the adventure team for handsome compensation to search Aristocrat Sir Henry Curtis’s brother, who did not return for days after he went in search of treasure. Quate..

Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray portrays the 19th century English society in a satirical tone with his classic novel Vanity Fair. The story opens up with two young girls Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley depart to their native after completing the studies. It is hard to believe how they became close friends with their ironical characters. Amelia believes i..

The Decameron

by Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian Poet Giovanni Boccaccio's novella collection The Decameron is a frame story told by a group of people, while sheltering themselves in fear of Black death. The stories explores the life lessons in various angles of love, erotica and death. This 13th century tales has greatly influenced popular literary legends like Shakespeare and Chaucer in..

Hedda Gabler

by Henrik Ibsen

Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's play Hedda Gabler dramatize an young woman's thrust for luxurious life leading to tragic death. Much against her wishes Hedda Gabler marries academic George Tesman, in an attempt to hide her immoral pregnancy. The couples meet their ex-lovers Eilert Lövborg and Thea Elvsted. In an attempt to sidelines Eilert's ac..

The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova

by Giacomo Casanova

Similar to his fictitious hero Don Juan, Venice novelist Giacomo Casanova's transparent autobiography The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova resembles the womanizer in him mentioning hundreds women he had intimate relationship. Written in five volumes, this personal memoir reflects the eighteenth century European social life. Exiled twice from his country..

John Silence

by Algernon Blackwood

Well Known for his ghost stories Algernon Blackwood's six stories titled as John Silence narrating Dr. John Silence's exploration of supernatural forces...

The Shunned House

by H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft's horror fiction work The Shunned House is a thrilling short story about an abandoned house which is precluded with supernatural monsters. The family members of an abandoned house meet death unnaturally and believed to stay as ghosts in the house. The protagonist and his uncle Dr. Elihu Whipple make curious attempt to destroy the mo..

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen's novella The Great God Pan explores the experiments in brain surgery which had lethal effects to the society. In an attempt to visually (Greek mythical) Great God Pan, Mary undergoes a brain surgery by Dr. Raymond. Years passed there are mysterious incidents relating to a person named Helen Vaughan and her presence and sexual encount..

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