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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol — Charles Dickens. On Christmas Eve, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge receives visits from spirits who confront him with his past, present and possible future. Dickens’s ghost story links personal change with generosity toward those in need.
Charles DickensNovellaeBookA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court — Mark Twain. A nineteenth-century American mechanic finds himself in King Arthur's world and uses practical knowledge to gain power. Mark Twain's time-travel satire examines monarchy, superstition, technological progress, and the violence beneath romantic images of the past.
Mark TwainNoveleBookA Doll's House
A Doll's House — Henrik Ibsen. Nora Helmer’s apparently comfortable marriage depends on assumptions that a hidden debt begins to expose. As the truth approaches, Ibsen’s play questions duty, dependence and a woman’s freedom to define her own life.
Henrik IbsenDramaeBookA Modern Uprising
A Modern Uprising — Radoje Domanović. A dream carries the narrator a century backwards, but the people and institutions he finds are those of his own day. Ottoman rule and modern bureaucracy occupy the same streets. This deliberate mismatch turns a historical question, how a people might rise against oppression, into an examination of habits that make action endlessly postponable.
Radoje DomanovićShort storyeBook · AudiobookA Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet — Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr Watson meets Sherlock Holmes and joins him in investigating a mysterious death in an empty London house. The case introduces Holmes's methods of observation and deduction before tracing its origins to a distant history of persecution and revenge.
Arthur Conan DoyleCrimeeBookA Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities — Charles Dickens. Lives in London and Paris become entangled as France moves from oppression into revolution. Charles Darnay, Lucie Manette, and Sydney Carton face questions of loyalty, vengeance, and sacrifice.
Charles DickensNoveleBookA Trick for a Trick
A Trick for a Trick — Jovan Sterija Popović. A purse changes hands in a garden, and neighbourly advice becomes a weapon. A Trick for a Trick needs only two people and one hiding place. Its action is small enough to follow at a glance; its arguments expand to take in marriage, learning, commerce and conscience. Both men are gifted explainers, especially when an explanation makes self-interest sound respectable.
Jovan Sterija PopovićDramaeBook · AudiobookAdventures of Huckleberry Finn
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain. Huck Finn escapes an abusive home and travels down the Mississippi with Jim, a man fleeing enslavement. Their raft journey becomes an adventure through deception, danger and the moral contradictions of nineteenth-century American society.
Mark TwainNoveleBookAlice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Lewis Carroll. Alice follows a hurried White Rabbit into a world where logic and ordinary rules dissolve. Her encounters with extraordinary creatures combine playful nonsense, curious conversations, and the uncertainty of growing up.
Lewis CarrollChildren’s literatureeBookAn Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband — Oscar Wilde. A respected politician’s past threatens his marriage and public reputation when Mrs Cheveley arrives with a demand. Wilde’s comedy uses polished conversation and shifting loyalties to question moral certainty and the idea of an ideal husband.
Oscar WildeDramaeBookAnna Karenina
Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina’s love for Count Vronsky places her at odds with family expectations and the judgments of Russian high society. Alongside her story, Konstantin Levin searches for meaning in work, marriage, and the life of the countryside.
Leo TolstoyNoveleBookAround the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days — Jules Verne. Phileas Fogg wagers that he can travel around the world in eighty days, accompanied by his resourceful servant Passepartout. Trains, steamships and unexpected detours turn their precisely planned journey into a race against time.
Jules VerneNoveleBookAutobiography
Autobiography — Branislav Nušić. Nušić looks back on childhood, school, first romances and growing up with a sharp sense of humour. His recollections also expose the vanity of education, social ambition and the way people polish their own life stories.
Branislav NušićAutobiographyeBook · AudiobookBefore Happiness
Before Happiness — Milica Janković. A young woman begins a diary of emotional awakening, disappointment and the search for a place of her own. Milica Janković explores love, social expectations and the years that precede happiness.
Milica JankovićNoveleBook · AudiobookBig Phil
Big Phil — Simo Matavulj. A hungry Dalmatian peasant refuses to abandon his faith in exchange for relief. Matavulj links poverty and personal dignity with a painful moment of compassion for the man’s donkey.
Simo MatavuljShort storyeBook · AudiobookBleak House
Bleak House — Charles Dickens. The interminable lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce draws a wide circle of lives into the Court of Chancery. Through Esther Summerson’s story and the city around her, Dickens exposes the human cost of legal delay, secrecy and social neglect.
Charles DickensNoveleBookCamao
Camao — Antun Gustav Matoš. The pianist Alfred Kamenski arrives in Geneva after years of wandering through Europe. His gifts open the doors of drawing rooms, but bring him neither peace nor a sense of belonging. Matoš’s story follows his encounter with Fanny, a woman he seems to have known even before seeing her. Music, memory and desire alter the outlines of their world.
Antun Gustav MatošHorroreBook · AudiobookCarmilla
Carmilla — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. In an isolated Styrian castle, Laura welcomes the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla as a guest. Their growing intimacy is shadowed by disturbing dreams and unexplained illness, drawing Laura toward an older terror connected with the ruined Karnstein family.
Joseph Sheridan Le FanuHorroreBookCrime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky. In St Petersburg, the impoverished student Raskolnikov commits a crime he tries to justify through an idea of exceptional individuals. Suspicion, guilt and his encounters with others gradually challenge the theory on which he has staked his life.
Fyodor DostoevskyNoveleBookDavid Copperfield
David Copperfield — Charles Dickens. David recounts a childhood marked by loss, harsh treatment, and the search for kindness and independence. Friendships, work, and love shape his passage into adulthood and his understanding of the people around him.
Charles DickensNoveleBookDead Capital
In Dead Capital, a household argument can turn without warning into a discussion of wages, education, or the uses of land. Josip Kozarac brings these subjects together because, for his characters, they are already inseparable. A father's money pays for his son's studies; a young woman's marriage changes the balance of two households; a field left uncultivated becomes a question about the society around it.
Josip KozaracNoveleBook · AudiobookDon Quixote
Don Quixote — Miguel de Cervantes. A reader of chivalric romances sets out as Don Quixote, determined to become a knight-errant. With the practical Sancho Panza at his side, his encounters turn ordinary Spain into a comic and poignant contest between imagination and experience.
Miguel de CervantesNoveleBookDracula
Dracula — Bram Stoker. Jonathan Harker arrives at a remote Transylvanian castle and discovers the terrifying secret of his host, Count Dracula. Journals, letters and reports trace the struggle to stop a vampire whose influence reaches from the Carpathians to England.
Bram StokerHorroreBook · AudiobookEmma
Emma — Jane Austen. Confident Emma Woodhouse enjoys arranging the lives and romances of her neighbors in Highbury. Her judgments repeatedly go astray, and her attempts at matchmaking teach her how little she understands both other people and her own heart.
Jane AustenNoveleBookFather Goriot
Father Goriot — Honoré de Balzac. At Madame Vauquer’s Paris boarding house, the ambitious student Eugène de Rastignac encounters the devoted and impoverished Father Goriot. Their intertwined stories reveal the cost of social advancement and a father’s consuming love for his daughters.
Honoré de BalzacNoveleBookFathers and Sons
Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev. Arkady returns to his family estate with Bazarov, a young doctor whose nihilist convictions unsettle the older generation. Their visit exposes conflicts over science, authority, love, and the limits of the beliefs by which each generation lives.
Ivan TurgenevNoveleBookFirst Love
First Love — Ivan Turgenev. Sixteen-year-old Vladimir becomes fascinated by his neighbouring princess Zinaida during a summer near Moscow. His first infatuation develops into a painful discovery about desire, adulthood, and the people closest to him.
Ivan TurgenevNovellaeBookFrankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus — Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein discovers how to animate a body, then recoils from the being he has created. The creature’s search for companionship turns their encounter into a tragic reckoning with ambition, rejection, and responsibility.
Mary ShelleyHorroreBook