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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 novella by the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Its nested testi...

19TH Century British Gothic Documents

9.4 Excellent

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The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper is an American novel presented as diary entries detailing the deteriorating mental state of a young...

American 19TH Century Gothic Feminist

9.3 Excellent

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Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady

Samuel Richardson’s *Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady* is an 18th-century English novel presented entirely as l...

18TH Century Classic Tragedy English

9.2 Excellent

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Notes from Underground

Dostoevsky’s *Notes from Underground* offers a profound exploration of human psychology through the form of a confession...

Russian Philosophy 19TH Century Dostoevsky

9.2 Excellent

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Augustus

"Augustus" is a 1972 historical novel by American author John Williams that won the National Book Award for Fiction. The...

American Historical Ancient Rome Letters

9.2 Excellent

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A Hero of Our Time

Mikhail Lermontov’s *A Hero of Our Time* is a 19th-century Russian novel presented as a series of letters and diary entr...

Journal Romantic Russian 19TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Herzog

Herzog, a 20th-century American novel by Saul Bellow, presents a profound exploration of identity and disillusionment. T...

Classic American 20TH Century Literary

8.9 Great

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Adolphe

"Adolphe" is an 1816 French novel by the Swiss-born author Benjamin Constant. The narrative follows a young, indifferent...

French 19TH Century Romance Letters

8.6 Great

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Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis is an epistolary novel by the Italian writer Ugo Foscolo, published in an important revised...

Italian 19TH Century Tragedy Letters

8.2 Great

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The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis

Ugo Foscolo’s *The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis* presents a poignant narrative through a collection of correspondence. P...

Romantic Italian Classic 19TH Century

8.1 Great

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Oberman

Oberman is an epistolary novel, essay, and intimate journal by Étienne Pivert de Senancour, first published in France in...

French 19TH Century Philosophical Letters

8.1 Great

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Obermann

Obermann is a French epistolary novel written by Étienne Pivert de Senancour, first published in 1804. The narrative is...

French 19TH Century Melancholy Letters

8.0 Great

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Delphine

Delphine is an epistolary novel by Germaine de Staël, published in 1802. Set against the backdrop of the French Revoluti...

Classic French 19TH Century Romance

7.6 Good

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Redgauntlet

Redgauntlet is an 1824 historical novel by Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. The narrative is structured partly as an ep...

Classic 19TH Century Historical Scottish

7.4 Good

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Poor Folk

Poor Folk (Bednye lyudi) is the debut novel of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, published in 1846. Written as an exchan...

Russian 19TH Century Poverty Social Realism

7.3 Good

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Leonora

Leonora is an epistolary novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth, first published in 1806. Told primarily throug...

Classic 19TH Century Romance Irish

6.8 Fair

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The Black Robe

*The Black Robe* is an 1881 epistolary novel by English author Wilkie Collins that critiques the manipulative influence...

Classic 19TH Century Mystery Gothic

6.7 Fair

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Lucinde

Lucinde is a novel written by the German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel, published in 1799. The work is notable...

German Romantic 18TH Century Classic

6.7 Fair

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Letters from Hell

Letters from Hell is a Danish religious novel by Valdemar Adolph Thisted, first published in Copenhagen in 1866 under th...

Classic Danish 19TH Century Supernatural

6.5 Fair

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Clara Howard

*Clara Howard* is an 1801 epistolary novel by American author Charles Brockden Brown, notable for its psychological expl...

Classic American 19TH Century Sentimental

5.9 Mediocre