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Where to start with H. G. Wells
Between 1895 and 1901 Wells set out five of the plots science fiction still runs on. Which of the scientific romances to read first, and why.
Three queer classics, from 1872 to 1928
A vampire who courts the girl she visits, a nobleman who wakes up a woman, and the novel a London court ordered destroyed.
Gothic novels were never one voice
Dracula is diary entries and phonograph transcripts. Frankenstein is a stranger's letters home. Reading them as a conversation isn't a modernization — it's closer to the form they were already in.
Free public-domain classics, read as interactive fiction
Where to start with free interactive adaptations of Austen, the Brontës, Stoker, Stevenson and Wilde, with source credits and published status.
Where to start with Sherlock Holmes
Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories, and the usual advice to begin at the beginning is wrong. Where to actually start.
Classic novels you can finish tonight
Carmilla, The Turn of the Screw, Jekyll and Hyde, Lady Susan — classics short enough to finish this evening, none of which read like homework.
Which Brontë sister to read first
Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre, Emily wrote Wuthering Heights, and Anne wrote the one Charlotte tried to bury. A guide to starting with the Brontes.