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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald's magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

The Strange High House in the Mist is a collection of several mystical stories by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). In the story of the same name, Thomas Olney is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. Local residents are afraid of this place, which no one visits. With great difficulty, Olney climbs the rock, approaches the house and meets the mysterious man who lives there.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy by the English playwright William Shakespeare (1564–1616).

The first volume of Scotland Yard Book by the English writer Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) included the thriller novel The Clue of the Silver Key.  In the story, Surefoot Smith of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate when petty thief Tom Tickler is murdered and left in a cab with £100 in his pocket. His discovery eventually leads to the mysterious businessman Washington Wirth.

«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.

50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other.

The heroine of Sanditon, Charlotte Heywood, the eldest daughter in a large family of a country gentleman from Willingden in Sussex, accidentally meets the Parker family from the town of Sanditon. The new friends invite the girlto stay with them for the summer and share ambitious plans to turn Sanditon into a fashionable seaside resort.

Burmese Days is the first novel by the British writer George Orwell (1903–1950).

The story Battle of Life by the English writer Charles Dickens (1812–1870) is about love and sacrifice. Two sisters live happily in an English village. Marion, the younger sister, is engaged to Alfred Heathfield, who is leaving the village to complete his studies. However, on the day Alfred is to return and marry Marion, it turns out that the bride has run away.

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

Anne’s House of Dreams is a novel by the Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874–1942), which is a sequel of the book series about Anne Shirley.

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