One of Ours by Willa Cather won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize, it tells the story of the life of Claude Wheeler, a Nebraska native around the turn of the 20th century. The son of a successful farmer and an
The Valley of Fear, the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Based loosely on the real-life exploits of the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland.Holmes decod
His Family, the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Ernest Poole tells the story of a middle-class family in New York City in the 1910s. The family’s patriarch, widower Roger Gale, struggles to deal with
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse follows the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The book was originally written in German, in a simple, lyr
The Iron Heel, a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, is generally considered to be “the earliest of the modern Dystopian”. It chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United Sta
Main Street is an satirical novel by Nobel Prize winning author Sinclair Lewis.Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Saint Paul, Minnesota. She marries Wil
The War of the Worlds by English author H. G. Wells, details the adventures of an unnamed protagonist and his brother in Surrey and London as Earth is invaded by Martians. It is one of the earliest st
A Room with a View a novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique
The Island of Doctor Moreau, a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, who called it “an exercise in youthful blasphemy”. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man res
The Metamorphosis (German, Die Verwandlung), a novella by Franz Kafka is cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western
Black Beauty by English author Anna Sewell was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dyin
