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The novel «Mansfield Park», the third published novel of Jane Austen (1775–1817), belongs to the mature period of her work.

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopia by George Orwell, written in 1948, published in 1949, and is relevant as never before. The main character of the novel, Winston Smith, is a censor at the Ministry of Truth. All its employees and he are watched by Big Brother, who sees everything, and everyone is spying upon everyone else even in their homes—citizens are being followed through special screens.

The novel The Beautiful and Damned (1922) by F. Scott Fitzgerald begins shortly before World War I. Anthony Patch, a twenty five-year-old Harvard University graduate, returns to New York. He is the likely heir to his grandfather’s vast fortune. Anthony meets the beautiful Gloria Gilbert. They fall madly in love and decide to get married. But Gloria and Anthony’s marital happiness is short-lived, as each person’s selfishness comes to the fore.

The wealthy Vanstone family from the novel No name has two daughters—Norah and Magdalen. Suddenly, their parents die in a train accident. It suddenly turns out that the daughters are illegitimate, they have no name, no rights, no property. All the property is inherited by an uncle, who refuses to provide any support to the orphaned nieces.

«Northanger Abbey» is a novel by the English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817), written in the Gothic style fashionable at the time with irony characteristic of the author.

The Forsyte Saga brought the English writer John Galsworthy (1867–1933) the Nobel Prize in Literature (1932).

The Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho by the English writer Anne Radcliffe (1764–1823) is set in the 16th century in Southern France and Northern Italy.
In the first part of the novel, the reader learns about Emily St. Aubert, a young Frenchwoman, the only child in a once wealthy family. After the death of her mother, she accompanies her father on a journey. She meets Valancourt, a handsome man, and falls in love. Emily’s father dies, and Emily, now an orphan, is forced to live with her aunt, Madame Cheron.

«Emma» is the fourth novel penned by the esteemed English writer Jane Austen (1775–1817).

The Forsyte Saga brought the English writer John Galsworthy (1867–1933) world fame and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Financier is a novel by Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945), based on a true story. It is the first part of the «Trilogy of Desire.» Frank Cowperwood, the son of a banker, starts his own business. He married a wealthy widow. Over time, Cowperwood began to misuse municipal funds with the help of the city treasurer. When the Great Chicago Fire causes a stock market crash, he goes bankrupt, and his fraud is exposed. Frank has an affair with Aileen Butler, the daughter of one of his business partners. Aileen promises to wait for him after his imprisonment.

Gone with the Wind is a novel by the American writer Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949), written in 1936.

The Stoic is the third part of Theodore Dreiser’s (1871–1945) «The Desire Trilogy». Frank Cowperwood decides to move to London, where he intends to develop an underground railway system, but soon dies of kidney disease. His inheritance is squandered in lawsuits. His last lover, Berenice, decides to establish a hospital for the poor, as Cowperwood intended.

Hearts of Three novel is a gem of the creative work of the American classic writer Jack London (1876–1916).

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), a French writer and military aviator, wrote his most famous work, The Little Prince, during World War II. This magical story about a boy from a fairy-tale planet explores important themes such as friendship, love, loneliness, growing up, and the value of every moment in life.

The daughters of the Marquis Mazzini, Emilia and Julia, are beautiful and educated maidens. Julia falls in love with the young and handsome Italian Count de Verez, but her father wants to marry her to the Duke de Luovo. Julia tries to escape with her lover on the night before the wedding. By chance, she learns the terrible secrets of the Mazzini family..

The last volume of the illustrated four-volume set by Arthur Conan Doyle’s (1859–1930) includes two collections of stories: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (12 stories) and His Last Bow (7 stories). The title story His Last Bow is a spy story. On the eve of World War I, a German spy is about to smuggle valuable documents out of England. Sherlock Holmes is going to put a stop to that.

The novel Man and Wife is a drama about a selfish and ambitious man who abandons his wife to marry a wealthier woman, taking advantage of a loophole in marriage law. Under Scottish law at the time, any couple who claimed to be married in front of witnesses was considered legally married in Scotland.

The Titan is the second part of the «Trilogy of Desire» by Theodore Dreiser (1871—1945). After his release from prison, Frank Cowperwood invests in stocks and becomes a millionaire again. He moves to Chicago with Aileen and divorces his first wife. Frank decides to take over the city’s railway system. He makes several competitors bankrupt. Meanwhile, Chicago society learns about his past. Aileen loses faith in him. Cowperwood meets the young Berenice, and she agrees to live with him.

The House by the Churchyard (1863) is a mystery novel by the Irish writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
During a burial in the churchyard, a skull is accidentally dug up, bearing the marks of two devastating blows to the head and traces of surgical intervention. The story described in the novel takes place a hundred years before the grisly find, and immerses the reader in a whirlpool of intrigue surrounding Dr. Sturk, a military doctor.

The novel by American writer John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream is a political parody of Lewis Carroll’s two Alice books (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass). Alice travels to Blunderland, where everything is communal; children live in the Town Hall, with the Duchess and the town being their parents. The book features familiar characters made famous by Alice in Wonderland, including the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, among others.

The third volume of Scotland Yard Book by the English writer Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) presents the collection of short stories The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reader, published in 1925. The collection includes the works The Poetical Policeman, The Green Mamba, The Stealer of Marble, The Troupe, Sheer Melodrama, The Investors, The Strange Case, and The Treasure Hunt.

This book contains classical works of erotic literature