Curated category
Novels first published in serial form
- The Pickwick PapersThe first issue of The Pickwick Papers appeared in March 1836. It contained two chapters and cost one shilling. Each subsequent number followed a strict…
- The War of the WorldsThe War of the Worlds, published in hardcover in 1898 by William Heinemann, opens with a sentence that has unsettled readers for over a century: "Yet across…
- Ulysses (novel)Ulysses, the novel James Joyce published on the 2nd of February 1922, tracks a single ordinary day in Dublin. The date chosen was the 16th of June 1904.
- Crime and PunishmentCrime and Punishment opens with a young man brooding in a tiny rented room in Saint Petersburg, an axe and a theory taking shape in his mind.
- The Brothers KaramazovThe Brothers Karamazov is the sixteenth and final novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and he died less than four months after it finished publication in November…
- The Three MusketeersThe Three Musketeers began not as a novel but as a serial, running in the pages of the French newspaper Le Siecle from March to July 1844.
- Heart of Darkness"The horror! The horror!" Those are the dying words of Kurtz, an ivory trader at the center of Heart of Darkness, the 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist…
- The Lost World (Doyle novel)Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stood before the Royal Geographical Society on the 13th of February 1911. He listened intently as his friend Percy Harrison Fawcett…
- The Red Badge of CourageThe Red Badge of Courage dropped onto American bookshelves on the 3rd of October 1895, and within a year it had already gone through ten editions.
- War and PeaceWar and Peace is the epic novel that its own author refused to call a novel. Leo Tolstoy wrote that it was "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still…
- Ben DrownedBen Drowned began as eight sentences posted to 4chan's /x/ board on the 7th of September 2010. A college student calling himself Jadusable described buying a…