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In this detective novel, Adrian Jones searches through personal advertisements in order to find any which may involve criminal activity which he then investigates.

The story of Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-Dame cathedral and his devotion to the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda. When the demented archdeacon Frollo sets out to abduct Esmeralda, he uses Quasimodo to do the evil deed on his behalf. However, Quasimodo turns from captor to saviour.

A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns.

Based on the Faust story, this is a play by Christopher Marlowe in which a man sells his soul to the Devil for power and knowledge. On a deeper level, this play illustrates the decay of a person who chooses material gain (by commanding the Devil to suit his desires) over spiritual belief, and in...

Etheldred just wants to do good, but she is disheartened by her misfortunes.

McTeague was one of the founding works of unflinching realism and naturalism in American writing.

Peter Blood is convicted of treason and sentenced to death by hanging, but he ends up being sold into slavery in the Caribbean where he must try to survive.

Two orphans face starvation on the prairie of northeastern Kansas during the terrible winter of 1885–86. Dell and Joel Wells, redheads who have barely reached shaving age, are about to abandon their dead father’s claim on Beaver Creek because it won’t grow crops. Then unexpected events, and...

La Constantin is written by A. Dumas Pere.

This book unearths the life of David Copperfield from his childhood into adulthood.