Great novels

Every novel says to the reader: Things are not as simple as you think.” – Milan Kundera

Explore the finest novels from around the world, from medieval adventure to modern classics. Find out what inspired writers, what their aims were, and how they set about writing their masterpieces. This series on “Great Novels” provides a fascinating overview of how the novel has developed through the ages and celebrates the eternal pleasures of reading.

Explore Don Quixote, Pride and Prejudice, and Frankenstein in this series about great novels.

Explore Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley.

➜ English version
➜ Afrikaans version

Reading Room series on great novels: Madame Bovary, Great Expectations and Middlemarch

Explore Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and Middlemarch by George Eliot.

➜ English version
➜ Afrikaans version

Reading Room series on great novels: Sons and Lovers, Ulysses & Great Gatsby.

Explore Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence, Ulysses by James Joyce, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

➜ English version
➜ Afrikaans version

Reading Room series on great novels: The Sun Also Rises, The Man Without Qualities & Their Eyes Were Watching

Explore The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

➜ English version
➜ Afrikaans version