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Classic Novels Disguised as Work

Read Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, and The Brothers Karamazov while looking like you're catching up on market news. Your boss will never know. Neither will Karen from accounting.

🎬 Coming February 2026: New Wuthering Heights Film

Get ready for the 2026 Warner Bros. film starring Margot Robbie as Catherine and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff, directed by Emerald Fennell (Saltburn, Promising Young Woman). Read the original before February 2026!

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Vol. 1

The Brothers Karamazov

by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)

Russian Literary Review

Three brothers, a terrible father, and a murder mystery that's also somehow about the meaning of life. It's like a prestige HBO drama, but from 1880.

114 chapters30+ hrs
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Vol. 2

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway (1929)

War Correspondent Dispatch

War, love, tragedy, and prose so clean you could eat off it. Hemingway drew from his real WWI experiences to write the ultimate 'everything falls apart' novel.

41 chapters~8 hrs
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Vol. 3

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley (1818)

Geneva Chronicle

Forget the green monster from movies—the real Frankenstein story is a tragic tale about a scientist who ghosted his creation. Peak toxic creator behavior.

29 chapters~5 hrs
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Vol. 4
2026 Film Coming

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë (1847)

Yorkshire Moors Edition

Think you know toxic relationships? Heathcliff and Catherine invented the template. This 1847 drama hits harder than most modern thrillers.

34 chapters~7 hrs
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Hear footsteps? One click transforms your Victorian romance into very serious financial reports. Heathcliff becomes "Q3 Revenue Projections" faster than you can say "synergy."

Bite-Sized Chapters

Perfect for the time between meetings, bathroom breaks, and "checking your email." Read Frankenstein one sneaky chapter at a time. Your productivity metrics remain mysteriously intact.

Impress at Parties

Casually drop "I just finished The Brothers Karamazov" at happy hour. No one needs to know you read it during standups. Wuthering Heights film drops Feb 2026—be that person who read it first.

What's the Deal?

NovelNews takes public domain classics and wraps them in a respectable news format. Each chapter looks like an article, complete with headlines and timestamps. To the untrained eye (read: your manager), you're just a very dedicated news reader. To you? You're halfway through a 19th-century Russian masterpiece.

Track your reading progress, set daily goals, and enjoy Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein, The Brothers Karamazov, and A Farewell to Arms—all while maintaining plausible deniability. Completely free, because getting fired for reading Dostoevsky would be tragic.

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