Books in English in Australia

Daddy-Long-Legs Webster, Jean, 1876-1916 Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by Jean Webster. It centers on Jerusha “Judy” Abbott, an orphan who is sent to college by a mysterious benefactor she has…

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Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Opus 67, by Ludwig van Beethoven, is a symphony composed between 1804 and 1808. It opens with one of the most recognizable musical motifs…

The Moonstone Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 The Moonstone is a novel by Wilkie Collins, published in 1868. It centers on a young Rachel Verinder, who receives a cursed Indian diamond as an inheritance on her …

The Rise of Silas Lapham Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 Silas Lapham is a self-made businessman who has built his fortune through the paint industry, yet finds it difficult to be accepted in Boston’s tightly knit, aristo…

Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy published in 1895. It centers on Jude Fawley, a working-class stonemason who longs to become a scholar at Christminster.…

Wild Justice Sprague, Ruth M. Professor Diana Trenchant finds herself at the center of a university termination hearing at Belmont University. Accused of falsifying student evaluations, she must…

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797–1798. It unfolds as a weathered sailor stops a wedding guest and recounts a sea…

The Republic Plato, 428? BCE-348? BCE; Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893 [Translator] Plato’s Republic is a Socratic dialogue from around 375 BC built around conversations between Socrates and various Athenians. The work centers on questions about ju…

The Lost Continent Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs follows Lieutenant Jefferson Turck, a naval officer of the Pan-American Federation, as he ventures beyond the limits his …

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 [Editor] The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is an unfinished memoir written by Benjamin Franklin between 1771 and 1790. It is organized into four parts and presents Fran…

Common Sense Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 Common Sense is a pamphlet by Thomas Paine published in January 1776, written to argue for independence from Great Britain for the Thirteen Colonies. Through clear,…

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Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time

A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a children’s novel first published in 1905. The story follows Sara Crewe, who arrives at a London boarding school as…

Middlemarch Eliot, George, 1819-1880 Middlemarch, by George Eliot, is a novel published in 1871–1872. It takes place in a fictional town in the English Midlands between 1829 and 1832, where several int…

The Voyage Out Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 The Voyage Out (published in 1915) follows Rachel Vinrace as she boards a sea voyage to South America aboard her father’s ship. Traveling away from the sheltered ro…

The Mayor of Casterbridge Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 The Mayor of Casterbridge is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1886. It begins with a drunken moment at a country fair, when young hay-trusser Michael Henchard …