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The Paris sketchbook is a travel book published by William Makepeace Thackeray starting in 1831, and published as a compilation in 1840. Witty, scholarly, full of anecdotes, insights, historical references, and a constant comparison between what he sees as the French...
“A thief in the night” is a collection of short stories published in 1905 by E.W. Hornung and features the gentleman thief Arthur J. Raffles and his sidekick Harry “Bunny” Manders. Raffles is a gentleman thief and a cricketer. He is always accompanied by his sidekick...
“Mr Standfast” is a spy novel featuring Richard Hannay, written by John Buchan and published in 1919 by Hodder & Stoughton. Richard Hannay is recalled from the Western Front by his good friend Bullivant in order to be assigned a new mission. As always, the whole...
“The mystery of a Hansom cab” is an 1886 crime novel by New Zealander writer Fergus, often considered to be one of the most famous crime classics of the Victorian era. Set in 1880s Melbourne, the novel tells the story of a man murdered mysteriously whilst alone in the...
"Max Carrados" is a compilation of short stories published in 1914 by the English author Ernest Bramah. It is the first appearance of the blind sleuth Max Carrados, accompanied by his faithful but not always insightful Carlyle. “Carrados” was created as a rival to...
“The Leavenworth case” is a crime novel written in 1878 by American writer Anna Katharine Green. This book, often referred to as a {criminal romance}, is considered to be the first crime novel written by a female writer, and to have influenced Agatha Christie to...
"The Big Bow mystery" is a crime novel written in 1892 by Israel Zangwill, otherwise famous for his humorous works and his political engagement towards the cause of Zionism. Considered to be the first “locked-room mystery”, written several years before Le mystère de...
“The absent-minded coterie” is a crime short story written in 1906 by Scottish writer Robert Barr. It features French detective Eugène Valmont, born out of a compilation of short stories titled“The triumphs of Eugène Valmont”, originally published in 1904 and 1905 in...
"The secret of the League" is a dystopian novel written by Ernest Bramah, which is widely credited for having inspired George Orwell and his 1984 for its realistic, detailed and vivid depiction of the rise of Fascism as a response to the climb to power of a Labour...
John Buchan’s "Greenmantle" is a 1916 adventure and espionage novel. In this second book of the Richard Hannay series (following The Thirty-Nine steps), Hannay is called to the Foreign Office by Sir Walter Bullivant at the beginning of the story. His mission: thwart...
"A modest proposal" or “A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public” is a satire (or a satirical essay) written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. In this essay,...
"The Power-House" is a spy novel written by John Buchan in 1913. It is set in London, and tells the story of a lawyer and MP who discovers an incredible plot aimed at destroying the foundations of Western democracies through an anarchist organisation called The...
"The false Burton Combs" is a crime story written by Caroll John Daly and published in the “Black mask magazine” in December 1922. The narrator, a tough guy, “kind of private eye”, is approached by a man who wants him to travel to Nantucket under his identity. Once...
“The Canterville Ghost” is a short story written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1887 in“The court and society review”. It is, together with Lord Arthur Savile’s crime, one of Wilde’s most famous short stories. An American family decides to move into an English...
"The portrait of Mr W.H." is a short story written by Oscar Wilde and published in Blackwood’s magazine in 1891. The story is the attempt by Oscar Wilde to uncover the identity of W.H., the mysterious individual to whom Shakespeare dedicates his Sonnets. Is Wilde’s The...
“Frankenstein” is a novel written by Mary Shelley, published in 1818 by a small London publishing house, Lackington, Hughes, Harding. Mary Shelley was nineteen when she wrote the novel, following “late in the night” literary games with her lover and future husband...
"The Man in the Moone" is a novel by Francis Godwin probably written in the 1620s and published for the first time under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales after his death in 1638. The Man in the Moone can be considered as one of the major works of the late English...
John Buchan’s "The Thirty-Nine steps" is a 1915 spy novel set in London and Scotland, during the few weeks preceding the outbreak of World War One. Made famous by Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 cinematographic adaptation, "The Thirty-Nine steps" is Buchan’s most famous...
Jonathan Swift’s "Directions to servants" is an entertaining satire of relationships between servants and masters in the Eighteenth century. It is a late work in Swift’s life. Not the most well-known, less dark than earlier satires and pamphlets, "Directions to...
Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" is a short novel or a novella set in London and published in 1886. Supposedly written in one night, then burnt and rewritten, it is central to Stevenson’s works. In this “gothic”, Poe-esque tale of dual...
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