The Originals

  • The Originals: Sherlock Holmes Vol 1
    The Originals: Sherlock Holmes Vol 1
    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Stanley Hopkins and I stared in amazement. Something like a sneer quivered over the gaunt ... “I have forged and tested every link of my chain, Professor Coram, and I am sure that it is sound. What your motives are, or what exact part ...

  • The Originals: War and Peace
    The Originals: War and Peace
    By Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy. TLEOOLSTOY was born in 1828 in Russia's Tula Province, Yasnaya Polyana, into an aristocratic family. Regarded as “the greatest living novelist” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Virginia Woolf, Tolstoy's two seminal works are War ...

  • The Originals: The Brothers Karamazov
    The Originals: The Brothers Karamazov
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    The story revolves around the murder of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov—the father of the Karamazov brothers—a debauched man who leads a hedonistic life and excels in the art of seducing women.

  • The Originals: Crime and Punishment
    The Originals: Crime and Punishment
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Fyodor Dostoevsky’s incisive psychological analysis of his protagonist goes beyond Raskolnikov’s criminal act, and covers his perilous journey from suffering to redemption.

  • The Originals: The Idiot
    The Originals: The Idiot
    By Fyodor Dostoevsky

    The Originals: The Idiot

  • The Originals: Three Men in a Boat
    The Originals: Three Men in a Boat
    By Jerome K. Jerome

    The Originals: Three Men in a Boat

  • The Originals: A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man
    The Originals: A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man
    By James Joyce

    O'Shaughnessy got fourteenth. The Irish fellows in Clark's gave them a feed last night. They allate curry. His pallid bloated face expressed benevolent malice and, as he had advanced through his tidings of success, ...

  • The Originals: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    The Originals: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    By Mark Twain

    And when it was bedtime the old man rose up and held out his hand, and says: “Look at it, gentlemen and ladies all; take a-hold of it; shake it. There's a hand that was the hand of a hog; but it ain't so no more; it's the hand of a man ...

  • The Originals: The Metamorphosis
    The Originals: The Metamorphosis
    By Franz Kafka

    I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself. Originally published in German as die verwandlung (1915), The metamorphosis is one of the Austrian writer Franz Kafka's finest stories.

  • The Originals: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
    The Originals: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
    By Mark Twain

    With The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain presents a sharp social commentary on 19th-century American life through scathing satire, folksy humour, colloquial speech and coarse language.

  • The Originals: Wuthering Heights
    The Originals: Wuthering Heights
    By Emily Brontë

    What follows is a series of disastrous events in which the characters are consumed by their tragic fate. Evocative and gothic, the novel was initially termed ‘abhorrent’ and later appreciated for its originality and poetic grandeur.

  • The Originals: Sherlock Holmes Vol 2
    The Originals: Sherlock Holmes Vol 2
    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels & Stories 1 & 2 promise an enchanting world of the most baffling and uncanny mysteries ever told. Most of these stories first appeared in Strand Magazine and were later published as a collection in 1892.

  • The Originals: Great Expectations
    The Originals: Great Expectations
    By Charles Dickens

    The novel was inspired by Robert Blincoe’s account of his childhood spent in a cotton mill. Oliver Twist, an orphan, is born in a workhouse and later sold off into an apprenticeship.

  • The Originals: The Importance of Being Earnest
    The Originals: The Importance of Being Earnest
    By Oscar Wilde

    A farce where characters take on fictitious roles, Oscar Wilde’s the importance of Being earnest is a delightful Carnival of lovers in conflict, warped identities, clandestine arrangements, witticism and incisive, artful conversations.

  • The Originals: Robinson Crusoe
    The Originals: Robinson Crusoe
    By Daniel Defoe

    In the course of his journey, he is enslaved, shipwrecked on an island in the midst of cannibals, travels to Brazil and secures a plantation, besides much else. This wonderful tale gave rise to a literary genre, the Robinson.

  • The Originals: Anna Karenina
    The Originals: Anna Karenina
    By Leo Tolstoy

    Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina was first published in serial instalments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger.

  • The Originals: Heidi
    The Originals: Heidi
    By Johanna Spyri

    It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow.

  • The Originals: To the Lighthouse
    The Originals: To the Lighthouse
    By Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf’s most autobiographical novel, to the Lighthouse (1927) revolves around the Ramsay family and their life in the summer home situated at a distance from a Lighthouse, in the Hebrides, Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 ...

  • The Originals: The Great Gatsby
    The Originals: The Great Gatsby
    By F. Scott Fitzgerald

    A series of extraordinary events unfold and Fitzgerald presents a critical social history of America through his unusual characters. The initial response to The Great Gatsby was mixed and the book sold only 20,000 copies.

  • The Originals: Tales From Shakespeare
    The Originals: Tales From Shakespeare
    By Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

    The language is simple, the literary flavour is intact and the reading experience is exceptionally soul-satisfying. This collection is a perfect companion for all seasons.