Literature

Dracula
First Edition
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The most famous vampire story of the Gothic era, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) is the chilling tale of a monster of incomprehensible evil and the...

Uncle Tom's Cabin (The Norton Library)
First Edition
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A bestselling novel widely credited for helping fuel the abolitionist movement that precipitated the Civil War, Uncle Tom’s Cabin aimed at the...

The Awakening (The Norton Library)
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Kate Chopin’s startling portrayal of Edna Pontellier, a young, upper-class woman who rejects her duties as a wife and mother, shocked readers upon...

The Great Gatsby (The Norton Library)
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When writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest for West Egg, near New York City, in the spring of 1922, he is swept into the dazzling world of his...

The Age of Innocence (The Norton Library)
First Edition
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Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence depicts with masterful irony and nostalgic detail a vanished world—the...


