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Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

4.0(228)1818

Explore Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a Gothic masterpiece on ambition, isolation, and the consequences of playing God in early science fiction.

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    Charlotte M Yonge

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    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Bronte

    ~6 h 40 min book

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    The Scarlet Letter

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    ~4 h 10 min book

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    Silas Marner

    George Eliot

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    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville

    ~13 h book

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    The Sign of Four

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    ~3 h book

    A detailed summary of The Sign of Four, including themes, characters, and key takeaways. Discover the mystery of the Agra treasure and Holmes's deductive…

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    Middlemarch

    George Eliot

    ~13 h 20 min book

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    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    Agatha Christie

    ~6 h book

    Discover the plot, twist, and themes of Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, a landmark detective novel with an unreliable narrator.

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    The Metamorphosis

    Franz Kafka

    ~1 h 30 min book

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    Pride and Prejudice

    Jane Austen

    ~8 h book

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    Ethan Frome

    Edith Wharton

    ~2 h book

    A concise summary of Edith Wharton's tragic novella Ethan Frome, exploring themes of isolation, duty, and forbidden love in a bleak New England winter.

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    A Christmas Carol

    Charles Dickens

    ~2 h 20 min book

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    Crime and Punishment

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

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    Bel-Ami

    Guy de Maupassant

    ~6 h 40 min book

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    The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    Agatha Christie

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    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    Robert Louis Stevenson

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