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1. 

   Middlemarch

   by George Eliot · Completed · 88 chapters

   Drama · Romance

   “ George Eliot” was the pen-name of Mary Ann Evans, one of the greatest of English novelists of the Victorian era. Her long novel Middlemarch, subtitled A...

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2. 

   The Red and the Black

   by Stendhal · Completed · 76 chapters

   Drama · Romance

   An ambitious young man of humble birth tries to rise in Restoration France by talent, love affairs, and calculated hypocrisy. A sharp portrait of desire...

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3. 

   Villette

   by Charlotte Brontë · Completed · 42 chapters

   Drama · Romance

   Charlotte Brontë’s last novel, Villette, is thought to be most closely modelled on her own experiences teaching in a pensionnat in Brussels, the place on...

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4. 

   The Great Gatsby

   by F. Scott Fitzgerald · Completed · 9 chapters

   Drama

   The Great Gatsby is a novel that needs no introduction for a certain generation of American readers. Long taught as required reading in American schools,...

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5. 

   The Picture of Dorian Gray

   by Oscar Wilde · Completed · 21 chapters

   Horror · Drama

   The Picture of Dorian Gray was first published as a serial in Lippencott’s Monthly Magazine, and the publishers thought it would so offend readers that they...

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6. 

   Little Women

   by Louisa May Alcott · Completed · 48 chapters

   Drama

   Little Women is the classic coming-of-age tale of four sisters on their journey to adulthood. Though today it’s considered a classic, Little Women almost...

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7. 

   War and Peace

   by Leo Tolstoy · Completed · 365 chapters

   Historical · Drama

   Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, five aristocratic families in Russia are transformed by the vagaries of life, by war, and by the intersection...

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8. 

   A Tale of Two Cities

   by Charles Dickens · Completed · 46 chapters

   Historical · Drama

   A doctor is released from the Bastille after being falsely imprisoned for almost eighteen years. A young woman discovers the father she’s never known is not...

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