Classics

Training in Tracking

by John Galsworthy

It doesn't seem right somehow that this science of observation and deduction which forms a most valuable asset in a man's character is not as yet included in the school curriculum except in such schools as have...

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic tale of love, adversity, and community morals in Puritan New England. Forced to wear the scarlet “A” after committing adultery and bearing a child, Hester...

A Tale Of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” So begins Charles Dickens’s classic A Tale of Two Cities. Published in 31 weekly installments from April to November 1859, A Tale of Two Cities...

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens’s shortest novel, Hard Times presents a harsh appraisal of English society during the Industrial Revolution. Set in fictitious Coketown, Hard Times tells the story of Thomas Gradgrind and his...

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

In Great Expectations, Charles Dickens chronicles the life of Pip, an ordinary country boy led astray by the trappings of London society as well as his desire to improve himself and become a gentleman. Along...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

The only published novel by Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights is the haunting story of the passionate love between the tortured Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of Heathcliff’s benefactor. First...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte

Originally published in 1847, Jane Eyre is Charlotte Bronte’s passionate love story between impoverished Jane and her employer, the rich yet conflicted Edward Rochester. Published under the pseudonym Currer...

Persuasion

by Jane Austen

Persuasion is the last novel written by Jane Austen before her death in 1817. (It was published in December of that year.) Set partially in Bath, a city with which Austen was intimately acquainted, Persuasion...

Little Women/Little Men

by Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott’s beloved stories of the fictional March family were inspired by both her own experiences growing up in nineteenth century Concord, Massachusetts, and her contact with noted literary figures...

Silas Marner

by George Eliot

Silas Marner, a weaver in the slum of Lantern Yard, stands falsely accused of stealing funds from his small Calvinist congregation. His life in tatters, Silas flees south and settles near the village of Ravenloe,...

Middlemarch

by George Eliot

In the fictional town of Middlemarch, selflessness, social reform, and romantic love struggle to survive against human foolishness, economic missteps, and societal ideals. Young and intelligent, Dorothea Brooke...

The Mill on the Floss

by George Eliot

Maggie Tulliver and her older brother Tom live a happy, sheltered childhood at Durlcote Mill on the River Floss. Though Maggie and Tom are drastically different—he is pragmatic and rational, while she longs...

Gatsby Girls

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

GATSBY GIRLS

She was an impulsive, fashionable and carefree 1920s woman who embodied the essence of the Gatsby Girl -- F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda. As Fitzgerald said, "I married the heroine of my stories."...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Beloved for more than a century, Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and continues the adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Jim as they travel...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

Gulliver’s Travels, first published in 1726, is Jonathan Swift’s best known full-length work, and is both a parody of the “travellers’ tales” popular at the time and a satire on human nature. Throughout...

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

“From Hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee . . .”

Few literary masterworks cast quite as awesome a shadow as Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. Captain Ahab’s quest...

Les Miserables

by Victor Hugo

One of the greatest epic novels in history, Les Misérables is the moving story of Jean Valjean’s struggle for redemption and his lifelong pursuit by Javert, a police detective determined to return Valjean...

She

by H. Rider Haggard

She follows the journey of Horace Holly and his ward, Leo Vincey, to a lost African kingdom where they meet the Amahagger people and the mysterious queen, Ayesha, who reigns as “She” or “She-who-must-be-obeyed.”...

The Adventures Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Baker Street would have failed to recognize him. His face flushed and darkened....

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility is the first published novel by Jane Austen. Originally published under the pseudonym “A Lady,” Sense and Sensibility tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, who,...