Books tagged with Literature[101 found]
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The Beast in the Jungle
by Henry James
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A man waits for a life-changing event he fears will define him, while a loyal companion observes his obsession. Through suspense, introspection, and emotional tension, the story explores fate, missed opportunities, and the profound cost of inaction.
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Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A sweeping tale of poverty, injustice, and resilience, it follows a young woman navigating the hardships of debt, family secrets, and social inequality. Amid trials and unexpected twists, courage, integrity, and love guide her through a world both harsh and deeply human.
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Tales of the Jazz Age
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A sparkling collection capturing the glamour, excess, and disillusionment of the Roaring Twenties. Through vivid characters and sharp observation, these stories explore love, ambition, and the fleeting allure of wealth and social status.
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Brontë
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A mysterious young widow arrives at a crumbling manor with her son and a locked studio, stirring village gossip and a farmer’s stubborn curiosity. As friendship deepens, her secret past—a marriage to a charming brute—emerges in pages of a hidden diary. Love, scandal, and conscience collide as she fights to protect her child and claim her freedom.
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The Portrait of a Lady— Volume 1
by Henry James
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A headstrong American arrives in Europe determined to live widely, not wisely. In drawing rooms from Albany to Florence she dazzles cousins and suitors, refuses safe marriages, and, after an unexpected inheritance, becomes prey to subtler designs. Friends warn, flatterers scheme, and a cultivated stranger beckons, as freedom itself becomes the most dangerous temptation.
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All the Sad Young Men
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A poignant collection of short stories capturing the disillusionment and yearning of the Jazz Age. Young men and women navigate love, ambition, and heartbreak in a glittering yet hollow world. Each tale unveils the fragile dreams and restless spirits of a generation chasing fleeting pleasures, revealing the bittersweet cost of their desires in vivid, evocative prose.
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Flappers and Philosophers
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A sparkling collection of stories capturing the excitement, glamour, and moral complexities of the Jazz Age. Through love, ambition, and social ambition, characters navigate modern life with wit, desire, and the often bittersweet pursuit of happiness.
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The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A glamorous couple navigates love, ambition, and indulgence in the roaring Jazz Age, only to face the harsh consequences of vanity and excess. A poignant exploration of desire, decay, and the fleeting nature of beauty and success.
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Monday Or Tuesday
by Virginia Woolf
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Explore eight experimental short stories delving into human consciousness. Encounter ghosts in a haunted house, women's societal debates, a heron's flight, strangers' unspoken stories on a train, quartet harmonies, vivid colors, Kew Gardens' serenity, and a mark's mysteries. These tales innovate form, probing perception, memory, and modernity through lyrical prose that entices and enlightens.
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Shirley
by Charlotte Brontë
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Amid the social and economic upheaval of industrial England, a strong-willed woman navigates love, labor disputes, and societal expectations. Her courage and compassion challenge the conventions around her, revealing the personal and moral struggles that shape a changing world.
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Bartleby The Scrivener
by Herman Melville
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A peculiar clerk joins a Wall Street law office, his quiet diligence masking an enigmatic resolve. Tasked with copying legal documents, he soon responds to all requests with a cryptic “I would prefer not to.” His passive defiance baffles his employer, unraveling a haunting tale of isolation, duty, and the human spirit’s quiet rebellion in a bustling, indifferent 19th-century New York.
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The Republic
by Plato
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A philosopher asks what justice is and builds a city in speech to test it—arranging classes, educating guardians, and arguing that wisdom, courage, and moderation must rule. Dialogues climb from mathematics to the Idea of the Good, picture prisoners in a cave mistaking shadows for truth, and debate poetry, politics, and who should steer the ship of state.
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The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
Categories: Fiction » Literature
In the disenchanted wake of the Great War, an American journalist drifts through Paris cafés and Pamplona streets with a circle of bruised friends, all magnetized by a dazzling woman who can’t be possessed. Booze, bullfights, and brittle banter mask hunger for meaning as desire tangles with impotence and pride, and a fiesta’s blaze exposes what their bravado can’t cure.
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Swann’s Way
by Marcel Proust
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A young man reflects on memory, love, and the passage of time, uncovering the hidden beauty and melancholy of everyday life. Through delicate observations and introspection, the past and present intertwine in a richly detailed exploration of human experience.
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The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A world of glittering parties, hidden secrets, and unbridled ambition unfolds in 1920s America. As wealth and desire collide, a mysterious millionaire’s obsession with love and status exposes the illusions, betrayals, and heartbreak lurking beneath the era’s glamorous surface.
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Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A haunting tale of alienation and identity, following a man who awakens transformed into a monstrous insect. Confronted with isolation, family tension, and societal rejection, he grapples with the fragility of human connection and the profound challenges of existence.
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Over the course of a single London day, a refined woman prepares for an evening party while her thoughts drift through memories, regrets, and fleeting encounters. Beneath the surface of ordinary moments lies a profound reflection on time, love, loss, and the fragile threads that connect every human soul.
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Ulysses
by James Joyce
Categories: Fiction » Literature
Across a single June day in Dublin, an ordinary advertising canvasser wanders noisy pubs, shops and streets while a young writer wrestles with art, desire and inherited myths. Their paths entwine in mundane errands, bawdy escapades and restless inner monologues, revealing a whole city’s secrets inside the maze of the human mind.
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
by Thomas Hardy
Categories: Fiction » Literature
A young woman’s life is shaped by love, fate, and social judgment in rural England. As tragedy and injustice unfold, she struggles to maintain her dignity and integrity, revealing the harsh realities and emotional depths of human experience.
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The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Categories: Fiction » Literature
In a provincial town, a tyrannical father is murdered and suspicion falls on his storm-tossed heir. Around the trial whirl three brothers: a sensualist consumed by debt and desire, a skeptic tormented by reason, and a novice radiant with compassion—plus a secretive servant. Faith, doubt, freedom, and guilt collide as love and rage push each soul toward its reckoning.
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