To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.
Ernest Hemingway / A Moveable Feast
David Foster Wallace / Infinite Jest
Lewis Carroll / Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Jack London / The Call of the Wild
JD Salinger / Catcher in the Rye
Charles Dickens / A Christmas Carol
Fyodor Dostoevsky / Crime and Punishment
Miguel de Cervantes / Don Quixote
Oscar Wilde / The Picture of Dorian Gray
H. G. Wells / The Island of Dr. Moreau
Mary Shelley / Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Great Gatsby
Charles Dickens / Great Expectations
Mark Twain / Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
H. G. Wells / The Invisible Man
Robert Louis Stevenson / Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Louisa May Alcott / Little Women
John Steinbeck / Of Mice and Men
Alexandre Dumas / The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas / The Three Musketeers
Henry David Thoreau / Poems of Nature
F. Scott Fitzgerald / This Side of Paradise
Jane Austen / Pride and Prejudice
Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Scarlet Letter
Frances Hodgson Burnett / The Secret Garden
Arthur Conan Doyle / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Charles Dickens / A Tale Of Two Cities
H. G. Wells / The Time Machine
Mark Twain / The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Robert Louis Stevenson / Treasure Island
H. G. Wells / The War of the Worlds
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler.