Read The Sorrows of Young Werther

The scholar's bargain with Mephistopheles; Goethe took sixty years to finish both parts.

Read Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra, exploring themes of the Ubermensch and eternal recurrence.

Austen's witty romance of Elizabeth and Mr Darcy (1813).

Two households in Verona and five days from the ball to the tomb.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.

A governess, a brooding master and a wife in the attic; "Reader, I married him."

Heathcliff and Cathy on the Yorkshire moors; a love story with no nice people in it.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.