Classics

Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

In A Tale of Two Cities, French aristocrat Darnay and English lawyer Carton compete in their love for Darnay's wife Lucie against the menacing backdrop of the French Revolution and the shadow of the guillotine....

My Antonia

by Willa Cather

In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Antonia Shimerda, the daughter of Bohemian immigrants, not only survives...

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne & Katherine Howe

A tale of an evil house, cursed through the centuries by a man who was hanged for witchcraft, haunted by ghosts of its dead and the terror of its living. Nathanial Hawthorne's works are imbued with a mixture...

Quicksand

by Nella Larsen

Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even...

Lost Illusions

by Honoré Balzac

The story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet from Angoulême who tries desperately to make a name for himself in Paris, is a brilliantly realistic and boldly satirical portrait of provincial manners and aristocratic...

The Riddle of the Sands

by Eskrine Childres

While on a sailing trip in the Baltic Sea, two young adventurers-turned-spies uncover a secret German plot to invade England. Written by Childers—who served in the Royal Navy during World War I—as a wake-up...

Middlemarch

by George Eliot

"Middlemarch" by George Eliot, one of the masterpieces of English fiction, is set in the fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch. It has multiple plots with a large cast of characters, and in addition to its...

Lady Susan

by Jane Austen

"Lady Susan" is an epistolary novel by Jane Austen. This novel describes the schemes of the main character, the widowed Lady Susan, as she seeks a new husband for herself, and one for her daughter. Although...

Treasure Island: Classic Literature Easy to Read

by Robert Louis Stevenson

This classic novel has been abridged and adapted into 10 illustrated chapters.

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Introduction by Nicholas Rance

From the Hardcover edition.

The Captain's Daughter

by Alexander Pushkin & Pavel Sokolov

"The Captain's Daughter" (also known as "The Daughter of the Commandant" or "Marie: A Story of Russian Love") is regarded as Pushkin's best prose work. It was first published in 1836 in the literary journal...

The Art of War

by Sun Tzu

Inspiring countless business, political and military leaders (Napoleon, Mao Zedong and General MacArthur among them), The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise by Sun Tzu from the 6th century BC. Its 13...

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in one eBook, Bantam Classics...

Four Novels: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by The Bronte Sisters

The Brontë Sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne are all celebrated writers whose novels are still a hallmark of passion and romance as well as literary masterpieces. In Agnes Grey, Anne Brontë draws from her...

Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Restored Translation)

by Sun Tzu, Lionel Giles & Istvan Aggott Honsch

Sun Tzu's Art of War has been vastly influential in the east since China's Warring States Period (403 BC - 221 BC). Though its first translation into a European language was only in 1782, the book's significance...

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

A country gentleman returns one night to his isolated and unforgiving home with a gypsy child tucked under his cloak. Treated as an animal, the child Heathcliff grows up twisted and wild. But he and the daughter...

Gone with the Wind

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1937

by Margaret Mitchell & Pat Conroy

Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to give rise to two authorized sequels and one of the most popular and celebrated movies of all time.

Many novels have been...

Shakespeare's Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

The Sonnets compiles 154 Sonnets written by Shakespeare on all manner of themes from love and fidelity to politics and lineage. Many of the sonnets - in particular the first 17, commonly called the procreation...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Mark Twain

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote, "It's the best book we've had." A complex masterpiece that has spawned volumes of scholarly...

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare & Samuel Johnson

From Shakespeare's historical plays and comedies to the great tragedies you will find the famous plots, wit and drama. This volume is a reprint of the Hayes Barton titles published for the educational market....