Classics

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens & Charles Dickens Dickens

'Hold your noise! Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!'

Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a terrifying encounter with a convict on the lonely marshes will later transform his life. Pip...

My Antonia

by Marilyn Sides, Willa Cather & Terese Svoboda

Emigrating from Bohemia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, with her family, Ántonia discovers no white-framed farmhouse or snug barn. Instead, the cultured Shimerda family finds itself huddled in a primitive sod house...

The Burning

by M. R. Hall

A dense, bitterly cold fog has settled over the Wye Valley when Bristol Coroner Jenny Cooper is called to the scene of a dreadful tragedy: in the village of Blackstone Ley, a house has burned to the ground with...

The Lone Star Ranger and The Mysterious Rider

by Zane Grey

Two classic novels of the frontier, by Zane Grey, one of America’s most celebrated Western storytellers

The Lone Star Ranger

Buck Duane, gunfighter, was offered a pardon by Captain Mac Kelly of the Texas...

Barlaam and Josaphat: A Christian Tale of the Buddha

by Gui de Cambrai, Peggy McCracken & Donald S. Lopez

A new translation of the most popular Christian tale of the Middle Ages, which springs from the story of the Buddha.

When his astrologers foretell that his son Josaphat will convert to Christianity, the pagan...

Trimalchio: An Early Version of The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

For the legions of Great Gatsby fans and scholars, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s early version of his masterpiece provides a new understanding of Fitzgerald’s working methods, fresh insight into his characters,...

Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The New Complete Edition

by Richard Bach & Russell Munson

Now, for the first time ever, a new complete edition ebook original of a timeless classic that includes the never-before-published Part Four and Last Words by Richard Bach.

This is the story for people who follow...

John Holdsworth, Chief Mate

by W. Clark Russell

In 1827 youthful, vigorous John Holdsworth, newly married to his sweetheart Dolly, leaves the village of Southbourne in Kent for his next adventure at sea on board the Meteor, bound for America. He is young...

In Secret: A Novel (Movie Tie-In)

by Emile Zola & Edward Vizetelly

Emile Zola's story of adultery, murder, and madness-soon to be a major motion picture starring Elizabeth Olsen and Jessica Lange

In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped...

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo, Julie Rose & Adam Gopnik

Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict...

Captains Courageous

by Marilyn Sides, Rudyard Kipling & Jane Yolen

One of Rudyard Kipling's most enduringly popular works, Captains Courageous is both a stirring tale of the sea and a classic coming-of-age story. Harvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American...

Mansfield Park (200th Anniversary Edition)

by Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble & Julia Quinn

200th ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Mansfield Park is named for the magnificent, idyllic estate that is home to the wealthy Bertram family and that serves as a powerful symbol of English tradition and stability. The novel's...

The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

by Honore de Balzac, Linda Asher & Peter Brooks

An NYRB Classics Original

Characters from every corner of society and all walks of life—lords and ladies, businessmen and military men, poor clerks,  unforgiving moneylenders, aspiring politicians, artists,...

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy’s first literary masterpiece, Far From the Madding Crowd is the story of free-spirited Bathsheba Everdene, whose bold independence attracts the attention of three suitors: the frugal shepherd...

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins, Alev Lytle Croutier & Lillian Nayder

The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday, but it is stolen again that very night. No one is above suspicion as the indefatigable...

Zuleika Dobson: Or, An Oxford Love Story

by Max Beerbohm

Sir Henry Maximilian “Max” Beerbohm was, like his friend Oscar Wilde, such an acclaimed wit (and essayist, caricaturist, and parodist) that George Bernard Shaw dubbed him “the incomparable Max.” But...

It Can't Happen Here

by Sinclair Lewis, Michael Meyer & Gary Scharnhorst

It Can't Happen Here is the only one of Sinclair Lewis's later novels to match the power of Main Street, Babbitt, and Arrowsmith. A cautionary tale about the fragility of democracy, it is an alarming, eerily...

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas & Will Hobson

The young Gascon d'Artagnan and the legendary musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis are ready to sacrifice everything for love, glory and the common good. The wicked machinations of Cardinal Richelieu and his...

Things Look Different in the Light and Other Stories

by Medardo Fraile & Margaret Jull Costa

From one of the finest short-story writers in Spanish, this is the first anthology of his work to appear in English. Like Anton Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield, Medardo Fraile is a chronicler of the minor tragedies...

The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy

by John Dos Passos

THE BIG MONEY completes John Dos Passos's three-volume "fable of America's materialistic success and moral decline" (American Heritage) and marks the end of "one of the most ambitious projects that an American...