Classics

Anna Karenina

by Leo Tolstoy & Constance Garnett

First published in the late 19th century, Anna Karenina, by famed Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of all time. Chronicling the turbulent affair between Anna Karenina...

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes began to write this literary classic after serving in the Spanish militia, surviving a gunshot wound, being captured by Barbary pirates, forced into slavery, and being ransomed by his parents....

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Best-selling author Alexandre Dumas—who also wrote The Three Musketeers—tells this heartbreaking yet heroic tale of Edmond Dantes who takes revenge on the men responsible for his unjust fourteen-year imprisonment,...

The Brothers Grimm Volume 2: 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm & Margaret Hunt

We all know the stories — or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about "Wise Folks," "The King's Son Who Feared...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

When first published privately in Italy, in 1928, Lady Chatterly’s Lover was too risqué for readers and was considered unprintable. It wasn’t until three decades later, in 1960, that the novel could be...

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Published in 1818, Persuasion was Jane Austen’s last completed novel. In this compelling love story, Anne Elliott is unhappy and unmarried at twenty-seven. At the urging of her family, she broke her engagement...

The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

A classic piece of children’s literature first published as a novel in 1911, Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden is a story of transformation and renewal. Unwanted by her parents, Mary Lennox, a...

Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published the first book in her charming series in 1908, making it a literary favorite for more than a hundred years. Published as a children's novel, the story...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The story of a slave struggling to maintain his dignity during the pre-Civil War era, Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852 to tremendous success. Since then, the book has received significant acclaim and...

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert is arguably one of the greatest novelists of all time. His first novel, Madame Bovary, was published in 1856 and is considered a literary masterpiece by critics and scholars. His skillful wordsmithing...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a familiar story of greed, sin, and arrogance. A young man, infatuated with his own handsomeness and youth as depicted in a perfect portrait, makes a bargain he will come to regret....

The Essential Prose of John Milton

by John Milton, William Kerrigan & John Rumrich

Edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon

The legendary author of Paradise Lost and other poems was also a superb and provocative prose writer. Culled from Modern Library’s definitive...

The Beautiful and Damned

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Beautiful and Damned is the story of Anthony Patch and his wife, Gloria. Harvard-educated and an aspiring aesthete, Patch is waiting for his inheritance upon his grandfather’s death. His reckless marriage...

What Katy Did Next

by Susan Coolidge

'What Katy Did Next' is the third instalment of Susan Coolidge's series about a cheerful young girl called Katy Carr. The story begins with Katy receiving an invitation to spend a year in Europe. She is overjoyed...

Parade's End - Part Four - Last Post

by Ford Madox Ford

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. This is part four of Ford's hugely successful Parade's End tetralogy that has...

Parade's End - Part Three - A Man Could Stand Up

by Ford Madox Ford

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1926 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. This is part three of Ford's hugely successful Parade's End tetralogy that has...

Parade's End - Part One - Some Do Not

by Ford Madox Ford

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1924 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. This is part one of Ford's hugely successful Parade's End tetralogy that has...

Parade's End - Part Two - No More Parades

by Ford Madox Ford

This early work by Ford Madox Ford was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introduction. This is part two of Ford's hugely successful Parade's End tetralogy that has...

Glimpses of the Moon

by Edith Wharton

Nick Lansing and Susy Branch are young, attractive, but impoverished New Yorkers. They are in love and decide to marry, but realise their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their...

Jarmila

by Ernst Weiss, Rebecca Morrison & Petra Howard-Wuerz

Set in the idyllic landscape of rural Bohemia in the 1930s, this is the tragic love story of Jarmila, the village beauty, and a toy maker who falls under her siren spell. The wife of the far older local feather-merchant,...