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In the novel Miss Billy’s Decision (1912) by American author Eleanor Porter, Billy begins her married life and is quite happy until she begins to listen to the advice of others. After reading an article that young wives should be guided by their own personal interests, Billy takes the idea to extremes.

The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain—one of the five Christmas tales by the English writer Charles Dickens (1812–1870). Professor Redlaw was constantly thinking about the past. A ghost similar to the professor appears and wants to help him. But it is almost impossible to forget your past.

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.

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston.

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

Charles Dickens is the greatest writer of the Victorian era who became the classic of English literature while still being alive.

American writer Robert E. Howard created his famous fictional hero Conan the Barbarian in 1932. This character attracts with his strength, intelligence, wit, and lust for life.

The animals on a farm rebelled against Mr. Jones, the farmer, and created an independent «animal farm.» But, having seized power, the leaders of the uprising immediately forgot about the declared rules of a future happy life. In an allegorical form, the transformation of revolutionary principles and programs, the gradual transition from utopian ideas of universal equality to dictatorship and totalitarianism is depicted. The most famous quote «All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others,» as well as Animal Farm novella itself, has not lost its relevance.

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).