Classics

Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 to 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet whose fiction is set in Wessex, a semi-fictional version of south-west England. He is the author of fourteen published novels, among them “Far from the Madding Crowd”, “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, “Tess of the d’Urbervilles” and “Jude the Obscure”, and … Read more

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 to 1898), an English author, poet, mathematician, photographer and Anglican deacon. He is best known for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (1865) and its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass” (1871), and for the nonsense poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Hunting of the Snark”. Dodgson was born on … Read more

F. Scott Fitzgerald (24 September 1896 to 21 December 1940) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for “The Great Gatsby” and for his portrayal of the Jazz Age, a term he popularised with the collection “Tales of the Jazz Age”. He published four novels and four story collections in his lifetime, … Read more

Jules Verne (1828 to 1905) was a French novelist whose “Voyages extraordinaires”, a sequence of more than fifty adventure novels, includes “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas” and “Around the World in Eighty Days”. He has been the second most translated author in the world since 1979, behind … Read more

Jane Austen (born 16 December 1775, died 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known mainly for six novels about the landed gentry of late eighteenth-century England, among them “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma”. Her plots often turn on the dependence of women on marriage for social standing and economic security. Austen was born in … Read more