Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary (1856) Charles Dickens Great Expectations (1861) George Eliot Middlemarch (1869) ~ Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) ~ Through the Looking Glass (1871) ~ Robert …

William Blake (1757 – 1827) “The Sick Rose,” “The Tyger,” “Ah! Sun-flower,” “London,” “The Mental Traveller” and “The Crystal Cabinet” Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) “Auld Lang Syne,” “Scots Wha …

Washington Irving (1783 – 1859) “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle” Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864) “Wakefield,” “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment,” “The Maypole of Merrymount,” and “The Haunted Mind” …

Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter (1850) ~ Herman Melville Moby-Dick (1851) ~ Henry James The Portrait of a Lady (1881) ~ Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) ~ …

Henrik Ibsen Doll’s House (1879) ~ Ghosts (1881) ~ An Enemy of the People (1882) ~ Hedda Gabler (1890) ~ The Master Builder (1892) ~ Oscar Wilde A Woman of …

Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes from Underground (1864) ~ Crime and Punishment (1866) Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina (1877) ~ The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)

Marcel Proust Swann’s Way (1913) ~ Franz Kafka The Trial (1914) ~ Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain (1924) Albert Camus The Stranger (1942)

Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart (1958) Gabriel García Márquez One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Italo Calvino Invisible Cities (1972) V.S. Naipaul A Bend in the River (1979) José Saramago …

Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) “Neutral Tones,” “The Darkling Thrush,” “During Wind and Rain,” “Moments of Vision,” and “Afterwards” Robert Bridges (1844 – 1930) “London Snow” and “Nightingales” Rudyard Kipling …

Thomas Hardy Tess of d’Urbervilles (1891) ~ Bram Stoker Dracula (1897) ~ H.G. Wells The Time Machine (1895) ~ War of the Worlds (1898) ~ Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness …