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By Subject > Literature > Dover Thrift Editions > Fiction Anyone can afford to stock up on the best of Dickens, Stevenson, Joyce, Conrad, Austen, Homer, Wharton, Melville, and other literary giants. Interested in receiving a copy of the Dover Literature & Humanities Catalog? Click here to sign up for our catalog mailing list. Recommendations... Frankenstein  by Mary Shelley The story of Victor Frankenstein's monstrous creation and the havoc it caused has enthralled generations of readers and inspired countless writers of horror and suspense. With the author's own 1831 introduction. all books in Fiction The Scarlet Letter  by Nathaniel Hawthorne With stark power and emotional depth, Hawthorne's masterpiece explores sin, guilt, and redemption in a story of adultery in the early days of the Massachusetts Colony. all books in Fiction The Metamorphosis and Other Stories  by Franz Kafka Excellent new English translations of title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy." Note. all books in Fiction White Nights and Other Stories  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett A collection of compelling tales, steeped in Dostoyevsky's characteristic themes of spiritual and psychological conflict, evokes life in Czarist Russia. Includes "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," "An Honest Thief," "Bobok," and 7 more. all books in Fiction Great American Short Stories  by Paul Negri Features 19 gems in the American short-story tradition, including "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, plus stories by Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hawthorne, Twain, others. all books in Fiction Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions  by Edwin A. Abbott Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction — charmingly illustrated by the author — describes the adventures of A. 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