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The Red and the Black

Stendhal (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425950

A French lowborn, Julien Sorel, wants more for himself than what life gave him. So he starts to slowly climb the social ladder using his keen intelligence, from an acolyte of the Church and tutor of a wealthy family to a private secretary of a diplomat. However, his past mistakes will forever haunt him.

The Possessed

Fyodor Dostoevsky (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425851

The Possessed or also called "Demons" is Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel about life in Russia at the end of the 19th century. In this highly political novel, Dostoevsky portrays the revolutionaries as demons or devils as they plot ruin and eventually turn on each other.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

James Hogg (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425912

An enigmatic figure by the name of Gil-Martin convinces Robert that he is an Elect - a soul bound to go to heaven no matter the deeds in life. How will Robert choose to live the rest of his days? As a pious and modest man waiting for his heavenly reward or as an despotic, vile and sinful person?

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425813

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel written by Oscar Wilde, and at the time of publication in 1891, it offended the moral sensibilities of the British. The novel tells the story of Dorian Gray, who sells his soul so that his beauty will never fade.

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425714

The adventures of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London, that go on a journey with no destination. The novel focuses on the people they meet and connect on the way.

The Professor

Charlotte Brontë (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425929

Charlotte Bronte's The Professor is the story of William Crimsworth, his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a professor at an all-girls school.

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425844

After the death of her father, Isabel Archer, a young American lady with many hopes and dreams decides to visit her aunt in England. Isabel wants to be independent and rejects the marriage proposals of two wealthy men. Her cousin wants to help her so he convinces his father on his deathbed to leave much of the estate to Isabel. Can the Lady finally fulfill her dreams?

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425820

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is one of the most significant works of English literature. Originally published in 1678, this allegory is the classic story of Christian (an everyman character) and his search for redemption. This edition has be edited by Dr. Jesse Lyman Hurlbut with simplified (yet still elegant and complicated) language for both children and adults.

The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425509

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot follows the life of Maggie Tulliver, a young passionate and intelligent girl who seeks love and approval. Unfortunately, by growing up and facing the everyday life struggles, she learns that there is not black or white in life, no good or bad. Either decision she makes, somebody will eventually get hurt.

The Marrow of Tradition

Charles W. Chesnutt (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425448

In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt takes a page from the post- Civil War American history book and tries to bring it back to life so that the reader can truly understand the roots of race segregation. Set in the fictional southern town of Wellington, the action is based upon the real 1898 Wilmington insurrection that shook the American society to the ground. The novel takes the reader to uncharted territories where the emerging white aristocracy is trying to get rid of the ‘blacks’.

The Mantle and Other Stories

Nikolai Gogol (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425424

A collection of short comic stories by Nikolai Gogol that focus on the ugly and the sad elements in life.

The Monster and Other Stories

Stephen Crane (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425547

The Monster is the story of an African-American who saves his master’s son from a fire and is severely disfigured in the process. The Blue Hotel tells the troubles of a man after staying at a hotel while His New Mittens presents the world as a young child sees it.

The Mysterious Rider

Zane Grey (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425592

Rancher Bill Belllounds has a plan: he wants to marry his boy, Jack with Columbine, a girl found in the wilderness and brought up by Ol’ Bill. However, his plan is ruined by the coming of one Mysterious Rider nicknamed Hell Bent Wade. That’s when Jack’s true character begins to surface.

The Money Changers

Upton Sinclair (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425523

Lucy Dupree is new in the fabulous city of New York and wants to meet the big boys of Wall Street. So she asks Allan Montague, a childhood friend, for help. This is how she is introduced to two major brokers who control the market. The two try to destroy each other in order to win Lucy even if that means crushing the market. Upton Sinclair's The Money Changers takes a surprisingly modern look at Wall Street.

The Monk: A Romance

Matthew Gregory Lewis (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425530

The Monk: A Romance by Matthew Gregory Lewis is a gothic romance that combines a morality tale with a horrifically violent plot. When a monk condemns a young girl who has become pregnant out of wedlock, she curses him to fall to his own immorality. He later falls in love and it proves his undoing in this intricate and compelling narrative.

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425493

Gregor awakens one morning and has been transformed into a monstrous, insect-like creature. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka is one of the strangest pieces of 20th century literature and required reading in many high school and college English courses.

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories

Mark Twain (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425608

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories is a collection of nine short stories meant to divulge the human’s wicked nature. The Mysterious Stranger is more of a novella in which Satan observes - yet doesn’t intervene - the human kind. He speaks of our precarious morality and fear and also about our innate compulsion of following the boldest and at the same time the most impulsive individual, thus acting more like sheep than wolves. Isn’t there any hope?

The Master of Ballantrae

Robert Louis Stevenson (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425455

James and Henry are two antagonistic brothers. Henry is willing to sacrifice everything for the good of the ones around him while James is a master of deception, ruthless and evil to the bone. Although both depart on different paths straight from the beginning, they eventually clash on more than several occasions. Whose side will you be?

The Man Who Knew Too Much

G.K. Chesterton (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425394

Horne Fisher is the man who knows too much: he has many well-positioned friends who can’t be touched and knows many things about the British political and social schemes. Using his extensive knowledge, he manages to solve many crimes only to realize that the real criminals can’t or won’t be caught.

The Man

Bram Stoker (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425356

The Man by Bram Stoker is a novel that is reminiscent from the Victorian era of British history, culture and society, which encompassed the period of the reign of Queen Victoria.

The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425363

Aramis wants to replace the current King of France, Louis XIV with a puppet ruler so he asks Porthos for help. D'Artagnan on the other hand sides with the current King so he immediately helps Louis when he is at peril. He also has to arrest his former friends for treason. Will he do it?

The Man Who Would Be King

Rudyard Kipling (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425417

A British journalist meets two interesting adventurers in India ruing their plan of blackmailing a Rajah. They return to him several months later asking for maps and books of the area. They have a new quest in mind now: to become kings in the remote Afghanistan and rule over a unified nation.

The Man of the Desert

Grace Livingston Hill (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425370

Lost in the Arizona desert and found by a handsome missionary, Hazel Radcliffe is in turmoil: she falls in love yet finds herself unworthy of being loved in return. That’s why she needs to transform herself and become a better person. But is this self-transformation enough?

The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia

Samuel Johnson (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532424946

Rasselas, son of the King of Abyssinia has everything he could possibly desire except his freedom. He is trapped and wants to know more about the outside world. Imlac has a plan to escape and Nekayah - Rasselas’s sister - decides to join the party of expatriates in their quest to seek happiness.

The Last Man

Mary Shelley (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532425165

Set in the late 21th century, The Last Man by Mary Shelley follows closely the life of Lionel who grew up isolated from society although he and his sister were meant to be raised by the Royal British family. Eventually, he becomes civilized and fond of the society of Men after meeting the heir of the British throne, Adrian. But how will he and the human society survive a deadly plague?