Kimball O`Hara grows up an orphan in the walled city of Lahore, India. Deeply devoted to an old Tibetan lama, but involved in a secret mission for the British, Kim struggles to wave the strands of his life into a single pattern. Charged with action and suspence, yet profoundly spiritual, Kim vividly expresses the sounds and smells, colors and characters, and opulence and squalor of complex, contradictory India under British rule.

Red Badge was heralded as a new kind of war novel, marked by astonishing insight into the true psychology of men under fire

Crowded with characters both human and nonhuman and bursting with action, The Odyssey details the adventures of Odysseus, king of Ithaca and hero of the Trojan War, as he struggle to return to his waiting, ever-faithful wife, Penelope.

A timeless tale of switched identities, Twain`s story revolves around the miserably poor Tom Canty "of Offal Court", who is lucky enough to trade his rags for the gilded robes of England`s prince, Edward Tudor

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain`s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur`s Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, is struck on the head during a quarrel and awakens to find himself among the knights and magicians of King Arthur`s Camelot

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Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the lives of two friends, Katharine is the bored, frustrated granddaughter of an eminent English poet. She lives at her parents`s home and is engaged to a prig who exemplifies the stultifying life from which she wishes to be free, until she meets a possible avenue of escape in the person of Ralph Denham.

Maggie Johnson, a lovely innocent too slight to carry the weight of poverty, dreams of escaping New York`s Bowery and the casual cruelty of her alcoholic family. After her younger brother dies, she runs off with Pete, a bartender with pretensions to wealth and culture. But Pete himself is easily seduced by the seemingly sophisticated Nellie, and Maggie finds herself abandoned in the unforgiving metropolis

The story`s heroine is Carol Kennicott, a naive college graduate who leaves St.Paul, Minnesota, to marry a country doctor from Gopher Prairie. When her attempts to bring beauty and culture to the middle class town are resisted by its narrow-minded residents, her idealism is sorely tested. A brilliant blend of social criticism and a dramatic struggle for self-expression, Main Street plumbs the depths of America`s cultural divide

This novel tells the story of beautiful Bathsheba Everdene, a fiercely independent woman who inherits a farm and decides to run it herself. She rejects a marriage proposal from Gabriel Oak, a loyal man who takes a job on her farm after losing his own in an unfortunate accident. He is forced to watch as Bathsheba mischievously flirts with her neighbour, Mr.Boldwood, unleashing a passionate obsession deep within the reserved man. But both suitors are soon eclipsed by the arrival of the dashing soldier Frank Troy, who falls in love with Bathsheba even through he`s still smitten with another woman. His reckless presence at the farm drives Boldwood mad with jealousy, and sets off a dramatic chain of events that leads to both murder and marriage