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The Master of Ballantrae
Robert Louis Stevenson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

The Moon and Sixpence
W. Somerset Maugham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1919

The Odd Women
George Gissing

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1893

The Power of Sympathy
William Hill Brown

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1789

Thérèse Raquin
Émile Zola

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

The Return of the Soldier
Rebecca West

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1918

The Romance of Tristan
Béroul

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1150

The Sport of the Gods
Paul Laurence Dunbar

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

The Valley of Fear
Arthur Conan Doyle

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

The Vicar of Wakefield
Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1766

The Warden
Anthony Trollope

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1855

The Wings of the Dove
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1902

Three Lives
Gertrude Stein

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1909

Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. Jerome

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1889

Tonio Kroger
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

Tristan
Thomas Mann

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1903

Under Western Eyes
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1911

Victory
Joseph Conrad

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1915

What Maisie Knew
Henry James

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

When the Sleeper Wakes
H. G. Wells

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1899

Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M. Forster

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1905

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1795

Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1865

You Know Me Al
Ring Lardner

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1914