Novels/Novellas

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Regency-era romance.
Years separated Anne and Captain Wentworth, but their love may have a second chance, if bitterness and reticence do not part them forever.

Lancelot: The Knight of the Cart by Chrétien de Troyes

Arthurian romance. (Technically an epic poem, but reads like a novella.)
Lancelot sacrifices his honor and suffers an arduous journey to rescue the abducted Queen Guinevere–the lady he loves more than his own life.

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Ghost story/psychological thriller.
An inexperienced governess detects supernatural forces preying upon the two children in her care, but are the ghosts real, or imagined?

Short Stories

• Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime by Oscar Wilde
• The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Fulness of Life by Edith Wharton
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Poetry

• Lord Byron
• Lewis Carroll
• Emily Dickinson
• John Donne
• Henry Howard
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• William Shakespeare
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Edmund Spenser
• Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Thomas Wyatt

*All stories are complete and unabridged.

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