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A free digital library of classic works, presented with complete public-domain texts and original introductions, summaries, explanations, themes and study guidance.
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NOVEL · 1813
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
NOVEL · 1847
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
NOVEL · 1861
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
NOVEL · 1890
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
DRAMA · c. 1600
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
DRAMA · c. 1606
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
GOTHIC · 1818
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
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Literary studies
Original comparative guides explore how writers treat shared questions of love, power, identity, class, freedom and belonging.
AUSTEN × BRONTË
Love, judgement and independence
Compare how two major novelists connect romantic choice with a woman’s moral and social freedom.
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