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A House of Pomegranates (1891) by OscarWilde
A House of Pomegranates (1891)
OscarWilde
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"A House of Pomegranates" is a collection of fairy tales. "The Young King" tells the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, he is brought to the palace to await his accession. "The Birthday of the Infanta" is about a hunchbacked dwarf, found in the woods by courtiers of the King of Spain. The hunchback's father sells him to the palace for the amusement of the king's daughter, the Infanta, on her twelfth birthday. In "The Fisherman and his Soul," a young Fisherman finds a Mermaid and wants nothing more than to marry her, but he cannot, for one cannot live underwater if one has a soul. "The Star-Child" is the story of an infant boy found abandoned in the woods by a poor woodcutter, who pities him and takes him in. He grows up to be exceedingly beautiful, but vain, cruel, and arrogant, believing himself to be the divine child of the stars. Cover done by @zonaamind
The Three Musketeers (1844) (Completed) by AlexandreDumas
The Three Musketeers (1844) (Completed)
AlexandreDumas
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  • Parts 66
The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, which recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis, inseparable friends who live by the motto "all for one, one for all" ("tous pour un, un pour tous").
Anna Karenina by LeoTolstoy
Anna Karenina
LeoTolstoy
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  • Parts 239
"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for her by others.
Poems of William Blake by gutenberg
Poems of William Blake
gutenberg
  • Reads 31,645
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  • Parts 1
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp by gutenberg
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
gutenberg
  • Reads 5,856
  • Votes 38
  • Parts 1
Cinderella by gutenberg
Cinderella
gutenberg
  • Reads 15,796
  • Votes 97
  • Parts 1
Two Gentlemen of Verona by gutenberg
Two Gentlemen of Verona
gutenberg
  • Reads 268
  • Votes 0
  • Parts 1
The Scarlet Letter by gutenberg
The Scarlet Letter
gutenberg
  • Reads 58,283
  • Votes 462
  • Parts 1
Wuthering Heights (1847) by EmilyBronte
Wuthering Heights (1847)
EmilyBronte
  • Reads 1,979,016
  • Votes 21,507
  • Parts 34
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.