The shelf
All novels.
Every book on the site has at least one of: a summary, an analysis, themes, quotes, or lines worth pondering. Pick one — read slowly.
195 BCEPlautus
Pot of Gold
A miser guards his gold while everyone else hunts for it.
Titus Maccius Plautus
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762 BCEHomer
The Iliad
A ten year war, one man’s rage, and the gods watching it all burn.
Homer
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725 BCEHomer
The Odyssey
A war hero spends ten years trying to become an ordinary man again.
Homer
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1847Brontë
Jane Eyre
A governess who refuses to live without dignity.
Charlotte Brontë
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1847Brontë
Wuthering Heights
Not a love story. A haunting that never quite ends.
Emily Brontë
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1813Austen
Pride and Prejudice
A truth universally acknowledged and universally misunderstood.
Jane Austen
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8 BCEOvid
Metamorphoses
The only constant is change.
Ovid
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429 BCESophocles
Oedipus Rex
The man who solved every riddle except the one that was his own life.
Sophocles
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