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The tree of happiness, and happiness is reading.
A home for classics: literature, art and folklore.
The Sirens
All ears.
Why do they have wings?
Ancient Greek art pictured Sirens as part woman, part bird.
Find a face among the wings. Then look back at the boat.
Read the museum essay Michelle Bonollo · NGVDiscusses the episode
War and Peace
We can only know that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom., Tolstoy
Often called the greatest novel ever written, not for its length, but for how completely it holds a whole world: war and peace, society and solitude, a dozen lives you come to know as your own. The book that started Gajimaru.
The Milkmaid
Rijksmuseum
A maid pours milk beside a basket of bread. Vermeer makes her work the subject of a canvas only 45.5 centimetres high.
View paintingCultural influence
Often called the first modern novel, Don Quixote gave English a word for hopeless idealism: “quixotic.”
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The Great Gatsbycompanion
Frankensteincompanion
Jekyll and Hydecompanion
Kokorocompanion
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmescompanion
Treasure Islandcompanion
The Metamorphosiscompanion
The Picture of Dorian Graycompanion
Dom Casmurrocompanion
Heart of Darknesscompanion
The Odysseycompanion
Little Womencompanion
The Time Machinecompanion
The Call of the Wildcompanion
A Christmas Carolcompanion
The War of the Worldssoon
The Golden Asssoon
The Adventures of Tom SawyersoonAlice's Adventures in WonderlandsoonThe Wonderful Wizard of OzsoonThe Turn of the ScrewsoonThe Jungle BooksoonAround the world
KokorocompanionDom Casmurrocompanion
Shakuntalacompanion
Botchancompanion
The Underdogscompanion
Kimcompanion
I Am a Catcompanion
Dream of the Red Chambersoon
Romance of the Three Kingdomssoon
The Tale of the Heikesoon
The Ramayanasoon
The Mahabharatasoon
Gitanjalisoon
The Shahnamehsoon
The Conference of the Birdssoon
Martín Fierrosoon
The Kalevalasoon
Popol VuhsoonThe Golden Asssoon
Water Marginsoon
The Analectssoon
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubassoon
The Art of Warsoon
The GulistansoonMajor classics
Russian classics
War and Peacecompanion
Crime and Punishmentcompanion
Anna Kareninacompanion
The Brothers Karamazovcompanion
The Idiotcompanion
Fathers and Sonscompanion
Dead Soulscompanion
Notes from Undergroundcompanion
Eugene Onegincompanion
The Cherry Orchardcompanion
The Death of Ivan Ilyichcompanion
A Hero of Our Timecompanion
OblomovcompanionVictorian & English
Pride and Prejudicecompanion
Emmacompanion
Jane Eyrecompanion
Middlemarchcompanion
Great Expectationscompanion
A Tale of Two CitiescompanionA Christmas CarolcompanionThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmescompanion
The Hound of the Baskervillescompanion
Wuthering Heightscompanion
Tess of the d'Urbervillescompanion
Draculacompanion
Silas Marnercompanion
The Mill on the Flosscompanion
Far from the Madding Crowdcompanion
The Woman in Whitecompanion
The Moonstonecompanion
Mansfield Parkcompanion
The Mayor of Casterbridgecompanion
The Secret Gardencompanion
Jude the Obscurecompanion
The Return of the Nativecompanion
The Importance of Being Earnestcompanion
Howards Endcompanion
The Wind in the Willowscompanion
Peter Pancompanion
The Invisible Mancompanion
King Solomon's Minescompanion
Sense and SensibilitysoonPersuasionsoonOliver TwistsoonAlice's Adventures in Wonderlandsoon
David Copperfieldsoon
Vanity Fairsoon
North and Southsoon
A Room with a Viewsoon
Bleak HousesoonGothic & uncanny
Epics & adventure
The Odysseycompanion
The IliadcompanionTreasure Islandcompanion
Moby-Dickcompanion
Don Quixotecompanion
The Count of Monte Cristocompanion
Les Misérablescompanion
Gulliver's Travelscompanion
The Three MusketeerssoonRobinson CrusoesoonTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasoonThe Jungle BooksoonThe RamayanasoonThe MahabharatasoonThe ShahnamehsoonThe KalevalasoonRomance of the Three KingdomssoonThe Tale of the HeikesoonAmerican voices
The Great GatsbycompanionMoby-Dickcompanion
The Scarlet Lettercompanion
Huckleberry FinncompanionThe Call of the Wildcompanion
The Age of Innocencecompanion
Ethan Fromecompanion
The Red Badge of Couragecompanion
The House of Mirthcompanion
White Fangcompanion
My Ántoniacompanion
The AwakeningcompanionLittle WomencompanionThe Adventures of Tom SawyersoonThe Wonderful Wizard of Ozsoon
The Portrait of a Ladysoon
Leaves of Grasssoon
The Last of the Mohicanssoon
Uncle Tom's Cabinsoon
WaldensoonLove & society
French & European
Les Misérablescompanion
Madame BovarycompanionThe Count of Monte CristocompanionThe MetamorphosiscompanionDon Quixotecompanion
The Red and the Blackcompanion
Germinalcompanion
Candidecompanion
The Betrothedcompanion
Nanacompanion
Carmencompanion
Cyrano de Bergeraccompanion
A Doll's HousecompanionThe Three MusketeerssoonTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seasoon
The Hunchback of Notre-Damesoon
Around the World in Eighty Dayssoon
Père Goriotsoon
Faustsoon
Quo Vadissoon
Bel-Amisoon
The Phantom of the Operasoon
The Sorrows of Young Werthersoon