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The Age of Innocence
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by Lewis Carroll

Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Verne

Billy Budd
by Herman Melville

Black Beauty
by Anna Sewell

Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley

The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens

Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky

David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Emma
by Jane Austen

Far from the Madding Crowd
by Thomas Hardy

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley

Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens

Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift

Hard Times
by Charles Dickens

The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle

Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain

Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Bronte

Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy

Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D.H. Lawrence

The Last of the Mohicans
by James Fenimore Cooper

Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert

Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen

MiddleMarch
by George Eliot

Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot

Moby Dick
by Herman Melville

Moll Flanders
by Daniel Defoe

Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens

Northanger Abbey
by Jane Austen

Of Human Bondage
by Somerset Maugham

The Old Curiosity Shop
by Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens

Peter Pan
by J. M. Barrie

The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde

The Portrait of a Lady
by Henry James

Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen

The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane

Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe

The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy

Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen

Silas Marner
by George Eliot

Sons and Lovers
by D.H. Lawrence

Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens

Tess of the d'Urbervilles
by Thomas Hardy

The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas

Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding

The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James

Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Vanity Fair
by William Thackeray

The Vicar of Wakefield
by Oliver Goldsmith

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Washington Square
by Henry James

The Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler

White Fang
by Jack London

Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte

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