Read The Scarlet Letter

London and Paris during the Terror; "it is a far, far better thing that I do".

D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis against the Cardinal; all for one.

Jean Valjean, a loaf of bread and nineteen years; Hugo's Paris from the sewers to the barricades.

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

A Roman patrician and a Christian girl under Nero; Sienkiewicz's Nobel.

Scarlett O Hara from Tara to the burning of Atlanta; a thousand pages and the most popular American novel.

Three generations of the Trotta family and the last decades of the Habsburg empire.

A poet-doctor and Lara through the revolution and civil war; smuggled out and given the Nobel.