Jane Austen

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Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811.Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged.

Sense and Sensibility (Annotated)

Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

The Communist Manifesto (Das Kommunistische Manifest), originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is a short 1848 publication written by the political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League's purposes and program. Marx and, Friedrich Engels, begin The Communist Manifesto with the famous and provocative statement that the “history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle.” They argue that all changes in the shape of society, in political institutions, in history itself, are driven by a process of collective struggle on the part of groups of people with similar economic situations in order to realize their material or economic interests.

Manifesto of the Comunist Party

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, Carmilla is one of the classics of the Vampire genre. The novella is one of five tales of the supernatural that is published under the name of “In a Glass Darkly”. Carmilla is the only vampire story in the collection. Carmilla tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla.There is a strong lesbian element in the relation of the Carmilla and laura, something very rare in the 19º century literature.Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and influenced Bram Stoker´s Dracula.

Carmilla (Annotated)

Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

John W. Cousin

The Valley of Fear is the fourth Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the real-life exploits of the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915.

The Valley of Fear

Sherlock Holmes

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847. Many people, generally those who have never read the book, consider Wuthering Heights to be a straightforward, if intense, love story - Romeo and Juliet on the Yorkshire Moors. But this is a mistake. Really the story is one of revenge. It follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious gypsy-like person, from childhood (about seven years old) to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff rises in his adopted family and then is reduced to the status of a servant, running away when the young woman he loves decides to marry another. He returns later, rich and educated, and sets about gaining his revenge on the two families that he believed ruined his life. Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as a classic of English literature, and has inspired adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatisations, a musical ,a ballet, operas (a role-playing game, and a 1978 song by Kate Bush.

Wuthering Heights (Annotated)

Robert W. Chambers

The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895.The book is named after a fictional play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book is described by S.T. Joshi as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which, "The Repairer of Reputations", "The Mask", "In the Court of the Dragon" and "The Yellow Sign", mention The King in Yellow, a forbidden play which induces despair or madness in those who read it.

The King in Yellow (Annotated)

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.The twelve stories of the Memoirs are:"Silver Blaze" ,"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" , "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" ,"The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk" ,"The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" ,"The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual", "The Adventure of the Reigate Squire" ,"The Adventure of the Crooked Man" ,"The Adventure of the Resident Patient", "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" ,"The Adventure of the Naval Treaty" ,"The Final Problem"

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Annotated)

Ann Radcliffe

Andreas Achenbach

Ann Radcliff, was an English author, and pioneer of the gothic novel. Her works were extremely popular, especially with respectably sheltered young women who were starved for something a bit more exciting than needlepoint. Her works included The Sicilian Romance [1790], The Romance of the Forest [1791], The Mysteries of Udolpho [1794], and The Italian [1796] A Sicilian Romance was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who learns of their turbulent history from a monk he meets at the ruins of their once-magnificent castle. The Mazzini sisters, Emilia and Julia are 'beautiful' young ladies with many talents. Julia quickly falls in love with the young and handsome Italian count Hippolitus de Vereza, but to her dismay her father decides that she should marry Duke de Luovo instead...

A Sicilian Romance (Annotated)

His Last Bow, is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, published between 1892 and 1917. The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (1908) "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" (1892) "The Adventure of the Red Circle" (1911) "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" (1912) "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" ( "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" ( "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" "His Last Bow"

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