The greatest book ever written, explaining the Creation, the history of Israel, Jesus' awesome sacrifice and resurrection, Jewish and Christian doctrine, and prophecy of what is to come
In the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, a hobbit and 13 dwarves go on a quest to reclaim gold stolen from the dwarves by a dragon; in the process, the hobbit finds a mysterious ring
A hunchback is brought up by an evil archdeacon, who is secretly in love with a Gypsy, who is married to a poet but secretly in love with the head of the archers, who is betrothed to an upstanding Parisian woman (originally published under the title Notre-Dame de Paris)
While on a hunting trip, a boy finds a mysterious blue rock that will turn his whole world upside-down and send him hurtling on a grand adventure involving dragons, elves and the fate of the land of Alagaesia
A thief becomes an honest man, but spends many years on the run from an unforgiving policeman, all the while bringing up a girl, who falls in love with a young revolutionary
A young orphan is brought from India to live with her uncle in a forbidding mansion in Yorkshire, England, and both she and her uncle (not to mention her cousin) are forever changed
Suddenly orphaned from a fire that burned down their house, three unfortunate yet very smart children go to live with a distant relative who doggedly haunts their lives in attempt after outrageous attempt to steal the fortune that their parents left
A young aristocrat moves from Paris to London and marries a French woman, during the French Revolution; he returns to Paris to save a former servant, and in the process is arrested and sentenced to the guillotine
