The Brothers Karamazov, also translated as The Karamazov Brothers, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. The Brothers Karamazov is a pass...
"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 h...
Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from Anne of Green Gables, as well as new ones like Mr. Harrison, Miss Lave...
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Wa...
Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his lo...
"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.
"The Taming of the Shrew" depicts the courtship of Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship, but Petruchio tempers her with various psychological torments-the "taming"-until she becomes a compliant and obedient...
Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
Alexandre Dumas elaborated on the story in the novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later, the final installment of his D'Artagnan saga: here the prisoner is forced to wear an iron mask and is Louis XIV's identical twin. Dumas also presented a review of the popular theories about the prisoner extant in his time...
Esta es una novela de la escritora británica Jane Austen , fué publicada en 1811. Fué la primer novela de esta autora en ser publicada, y lleva ya numerosas veces tanto para el cine, como para la televisión . Esta novela se basa principalmente en la historia de dos hermanas, Elinor y Marianne Dashwood, que tras morir...
El Sr. Parker, el hombre más reconocido de un pequeño pueblo costero llamado Sanditon, sufre un accidente lejos de su casa y la familia Heywood le acoge a él y a su esposa. Después de trazar una fuerte y hermosa amistad, la familia Parker se llevan con ellos a Sanditon a la hija mayor de la familia Heywood, Charlotte...
Lady Susan es una novela corta epistolar de Jane Austen. Posiblemente escrita en 1794, fue publicada en 1871 en forma póstuma. Consta de 41 cartas escritas por y para los protagonistas principales. Es una obra de juventud, completa, pero que nunca la autora presentó para su publicación. Describe los planes de la prot...
Jane Eyre cuenta la vida de una joven huérfana que, tras pasar una dura infancia, llega a Thornfield Hall para ser institutriz de una pequeña niña. Allí conocerá Edward Rochester, un hombre enigmático, inquisitivo y muy sincero, que buscará descubrir en Jane los deseos que ella guarda en su corazón. Pero Thornfield Ha...