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Around the World in Eighty Days
novel by Jules Verne
Lolita
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian and American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator is a French literature professor who moves to New England and writes under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert. He details his obsession with and victimization of a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he describes as a "nymphet". Humbert kidnaps and sexually abuses Dolores after becoming her stepfather. Privately, he calls her "Lolita", the Spanish diminutive for Dolores. The novel was written in English, but fear of censorship in the U.S. (where Nabokov lived) and Britain led to it being
Heart of Darkness
1899 novella by Joseph Conrad
travel literature
literary genre
Life of Pi
2001 novel by Yann Martel
On the Road
1957 novel by Jack Kerouac
The Pickwick Papers
1837 novel by Charles Dickens
Three Men in a Boat
1889 novel by Jerome K. Jerome
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
1768 novel by Laurence Sterne
The Historian
2005 novel by Elizabeth Kostova
The Dharma Bums
novel by Jack Kerouac
Travels with Charley
travelogue by John Steinbeck
The Travels of Lao Can
novel by Liu E
Lonesome Traveler
novel by Jack Kerouac
Le Tour de la France par deux enfants
1877 novel by G. Bruno
Less
novel by Andrew Sean Greer
Los autonautas de la cosmopista
book
Quichotte
2019 novel by Salman Rushdie