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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 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.

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.

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.

Works by French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–1944) are full of almost mystical echoes with the present days.