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Jay Gatsby throws parties at his Long Island mansion every weekend hoping that one night she will walk through the door. She is across the bay, a green light at the end of her dock, and married to someone else. Fitzgerald wrote the American Dream's obituary and dressed it in a white suit.
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The best argument for speed reading: read all of these in a week.
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Start at 400 WPM and let these books carry you.
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If you have not read the classics yet, start here.
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Read these when you want your assumptions about people disturbed.
Gothic horror is a genre built on atmosphere, dread, and the transgression of boundaries — between the living and dead, the rational and irrational, the civilised and monstrous.
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Russian literature of the nineteenth century produced a body of work without parallel in any other national tradition — a sequence of novels and stories that confronted mortality, guilt, religious faith, and the nature of consciousness more directly than anything being written elsewhere.
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Victorian fiction encompasses the rich literary output of Britain and France from roughly 1830 to 1914 — a period of industrialisation, empire, social reform, and intense class anxiety.
Explore →American classic literature spans from Hawthorne and Melville in the mid-nineteenth century through the modernists of the 1920s and 30s, producing a body of work defined by its engagement with freedom, identity, race, and the gap between the American Dream and American reality.
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Philosophical fiction uses narrative — or in some cases prose poems and dialogues — to explore fundamental questions about how to live, what we know, and what we owe each other.
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Ancient epic poetry is the oldest literary tradition in Western culture — oral poems of enormous scope that encode a society's values, histories, and understanding of the divine.
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Dystopian fiction imagines futures — or alternate presents — in which social, technological, or political forces have taken a turn toward catastrophe.
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Romance classics is a broad category of beloved, widely-read classics in which love, longing, and human connection are central — from the precise social comedy of Jane Austen to the sweeping adventure of The Count of Monte Cristo, the sharp wit of Oscar Wilde, and the accessible adventures of Treasure Island.
Explore →Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
Bram Stoker
Lewis Carroll
Arthur Conan Doyle
Herman Melville
H. G. Wells
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Franz Kafka
Robert Louis Stevenson
Joseph Conrad
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
L. M. Montgomery
J. M. Barrie
Robert Louis Stevenson
Mark Twain
Sun Tzu
Marcus Aurelius
Epictetus
Niccolò Machiavelli
Louisa May Alcott
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Alexandre Dumas
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Austen
Homer
Leo Tolstoy
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Friedrich Nietzsche
Miguel de Cervantes
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Voltaire
H. G. Wells
Jane Austen
Hermann Hesse
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Austen
Oscar Wilde
Frances Hodgson Burnett
E. M. Forster
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Virginia Woolf
D. H. Lawrence
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Leo Tolstoy
George Eliot
Homer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Franz Kafka
Jane Austen
Mark Twain
Kate Chopin
Jack London
Gustave Flaubert
Leo Tolstoy
Henry James
Plato
Victor Hugo
Thomas Hardy
Rudyard Kipling
James Joyce
Émile Zola
