Classics
20 stories
MrWitty
- Reads 10,090
- Votes 115
- Parts 7
"The Happy Prince was written by Oscar Wilde In 1888 and has continued to enchant its readers for over a century."
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Original Book Written By Oscar Wilde. *credita to him... Enjoy!
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JaneAusten
- Reads 40,414
- Votes 2,250
- Parts 42
Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother- and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to Charles and her unwanted guest has been described to her as "the most accomplished coquette in England". Among Lady Susan's conquests in London is the married Mr. Mainwaring.
Cover by the lovely @Austened.
LouisaMayAlcott
- Reads 681,261
- Votes 15,996
- Parts 47
"Little Women" follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
AnnaSewell
- Reads 229,680
- Votes 7,647
- Parts 49
"Black Beauty" is narrated as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness.
JamesJoyce
- Reads 147,730
- Votes 793
- Parts 15
"Dubliners" is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century.
JamesJoyce
- Reads 6,978
- Votes 73
- Parts 5
"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions with which he has been raised. He finally leaves for abroad to pursue his ambitions as an artist.
JamesJoyce
- Reads 11,162
- Votes 137
- Parts 18
"Ulysses" chronicles the passage of Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem.
Cover by the wonderful @Azurina77.
MarkTwain
- Reads 185,464
- Votes 3,494
- Parts 37
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.