A gripping, vivid novel which brings to life Europe in the Middle Ages, in all its beauty and horror.

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is a dystopian novel that portrays a totalitarian society where personal freedom is non-existent.

In Bath, Catherine Morland meets Henry, a suitor and a fellow devotee of Gothic novels who invites her to his family home, Northanger Abbey. Ruins, locked doors, dark corridors… how could she refuse?

Notes from Underground & Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky. With an Introduction and Notes by David Rampton, Department of English, University of Ottowa. 

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals, and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.

Oliver Twist is a story of a young orphan. His life in the workhouse is lonely and sad. Oliver becomes an apprentice for an undertaker but runs away after he gets into a fight with another apprentice.

Dramatic and powerful in its scope, ‘Othello’ explores the perils of suspicion and jealousy and the ensuing breakdown of relationships and disaster that can arise from such emotions. Othello secretly marries Desdemona, but is led to believe that she has been unfaithful to him by his ensign, Iago, leading to tragic events.