Classics

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

While transporting ivory along the Congo River, Charles Marlow hears whispers about the enigmatic Mr. Kurtz, who has apparently become ill while stationed upriver. Arriving at the Inner Station, Marlow confronts...

A Journal of the Plague Year

by Daniel Defoe

Set against the backdrop of the Great Plague of London in the seventeenth century, Daniel Defoe’s classic novel, A Journal of the Plague Year, continues to be distinguished for its intense, honest, and realistic...

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

When lawyer Gabriel John Utterson witnesses the odd behavior of a man named Edward Hyde, who uses cheques signed by Utterson’s friend Dr. Henry Jekyll, he decides to investigate the strange and violent man....

My Ántonia

by Willa Cather

With honesty and tenderness, Jim Burden recounts the life of his Ántonia—the free-spirited Bohemian girl who captured his heart and his imagination from their first encounter as young children.

My Ántonia...

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

Years after being rescued from the deserted island, Robinson Crusoe’s life is much different from the one he knew during his solitary years as a cast away—he has a loving wife, small children, and a successful...

Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

'Look here! Here's a jolly life! What's the odds where it comes from?'

Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you'll run down the dirty...

The Swiss Family Robinson

by JohannD. Wyss, J. Hillis Miller & Elizabeth Janeway

Swept off course by a raging storm, a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four young sons are shipwrecked on an uncharted tropical island. Thus begins the classic story of survival and adventure that has fired...

Washington Square

by Henry James, Mona Simpson & Michael Cunningham

Back when New York was still young, so was heiress Catherine Sloper. A simple, plain girl, she grew up in opulence with a disappointed father and a fluttery aunt in a grand house on Washington Square.

Enter...

Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe

This purportedly true story, recorded by English author Daniel Defoe, tells of the strange life of Moll Flanders, a woman who lives in sin and wickedness, surviving only on her beauty, cleverness, and deceit....

Ligeia

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Murders in the Rue Morgue & The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Mystery of Marie Rogêt

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Cask of Amontillado

by Edgar Allan Poe

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The Purloined Letter

by Edgar Allan Poe

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The English Hermit

by Peter Longueville

While searching for fresh food on a seemingly uninhabited island Edward Dorrington and his crew stumble upon a meticulously crafted village. They soon discover that the buildings and everything in them belong...

The Aeneid

by Virgil & Robert Fitzgerald

Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri

Dante’s Divine Comedy relates the allegorical tale of the poet’s journey through the three realms of the dead. Accompanied through the Inferno and Purgatory by Virgil--author of the Roman epic the Aeniad...

Adam Bede

by George Eliot

A young carpenter living in the fiction community of Hayslope, Adam Bede falls desperately in love with a local beauty, Hetty Sorrel. When two newcomers arrive in town—a gallant young captain and Hetty’s...

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe

The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe endures twenty-seven years of solitude and deprivation on a remote Caribbean island, his only companion an escaped prisoner who he names “Friday.” Together,...