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Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners byJane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the maincharacter, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners,upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of thelanded gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is thesecond of five daughters of a country gentleman living near thefictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.Though Austen set the story at the turn of the 19th century, itretains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the topof lists of "most loved books." Pride and Prejudice has become oneof the most popular novels in English literature, selling over 20million copies, and receives considerable attention from literaryscholars.Modern interest in Pride and Prejudice has resulted in a numberof dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and storiesimitating Austen's memorable characters or themes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by ArthurConan Doyle

Grimms' Fairy Tales is a collection of German fairy tales firstpublished in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. Thecollection is commonly known in the Anglosphere as Grimm's FairyTales.

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is anovel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentricscientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature inan unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing thestory when she was eighteen, and the novel was published when shewas twenty. The first edition was published anonymously in Londonin 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published inFrance in 1823.Shelley had travelled through Europe in 1814, journeying along theriver Rhine in Germany with a stop in Gernsheim which is just 17 km(10 mi) away from Frankenstein Castle, where two centuries beforean alchemist was engaged in experiments.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, inmorerecent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novelbyMark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December1884and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named amongtheGreat American Novels, the work is among the first inmajorAmerican literature to be written throughout in vernacularEnglish,characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in thefirstperson by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyerandnarrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad andTomSawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures ofTomSawyer.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is noted for itscolorfuldescription of people and places along the MississippiRiver. Setin a Southern antebellum society that had ceased to existabouttwenty years before the work was published, AdventuresofHuckleberry Finn is an often scathing satire onentrenchedattitudes, particularly racism.Perennially popular with readers, Adventures of HuckleberryFinnhas also been the continued object of study by literarycriticssince its publication. It was criticized upon releasebecause ofits coarse language and became even more controversial inthe 20thcentury because of its perceived use of racial stereotypesandbecause of its frequent use of the racial slur "nigger",despitestrong arguments that the protagonist, and the tenor of thebook,is anti-racist.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland(commonlyshortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel writtenbyEnglish author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonymLewisCarroll.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland tells of a girl namedAlicefalling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populatedbypeculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays withlogic,giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well aswithchildren.Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is considered to be one ofthebest examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrativecourseand structure, characters and imagery have beenenormouslyinfluential in both popular culture and literature,especially inthe fantasy genre.

The Metamorphosis-The Transformation- is a novella by Franz Kafka,first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminalworks of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges anduniversities across the Western world. The Metamorphosis beginswith a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himselftransformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-likecreature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed,and Kafka himself never gave an explanation The rest of Kafka'sMetamorphosis deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his newcondition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents andsister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregorhas become.

The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italiandiplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about ayoung boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is setin the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal,Missouri, where Twain lived

The Yellow Wallpaper is a 6,000-word short story by the Americanwriter Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 inThe New England Magazine. The Yellow Wallpaper is regarded as animportant early work of American feminist literature, illustratingattitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mentalhealth. Presented in the first person, The Yellow Wallpaper is acollection of journal entries written by a woman (Jane) whosephysician husband (John) has confined her to the upstairs bedroomof a house he has rented for the summer. She is forbidden fromworking and has to hide her journal from him, so she can recuperatefrom what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slighthysterical tendency," a diagnosis common to women in thatperiod.[2] The windows of the room are barred, and there is a gateacross the top of the stairs, allowing her husband to control heraccess to the rest of the house. The story depicts the effect ofconfinement on the narrator's mental health and her descent intopsychosis. With nothing to stimulate her, she becomes obsessed bythe pattern and color of the wallpaper. "It is the strangestyellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow thingsI ever saw – not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, badyellow things. But there is something else about that paper – thesmell! ... The only thing I can think of that it is like is thecolor of the paper! A yellow smell." In the end, she imagines thereare women creeping around behind the patterns of the wallpaper andcomes to believe she is one of them. She locks herself in the room,now the only place she feels safe, refusing to leave when thesummer rental is up. "For outside you have to creep on the ground,and everything is green instead of yellow. But here I can creepsmoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that longsmooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way."