Classics

The Seven Poor Travellers

by Charles Dickens

Although he is now revered as the author of such long-form masterworks as Great Expectations, Charles Dickens' short stories ranked among his most popular creative endeavors during his lifetime. Like many of...

Ballads

by William Makepeace Thackeray

Though he is best remembered as the satirical novelist who penned nineteenth-century masterpieces such as Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray was also an accomplished poet. This volume collects some of...

Democracy

by Henry Adams

Originally published anonymously, it was later revealed that this classic work of political fiction was penned by Henry Brooks Adams, the renowned essayist and journalist best known for the autobiography The...

Effi Briest

by Theodor Fontane

Effi Briest, the classic German realist novel, follows a young woman through her life and marriage. She is an innocent when she is married to the social climbing Instetten, and longs for wordly things. When...

Indian Tales

by Rudyard Kipling

Even if you're a die-hard fan of the Disney animated classic The Jungle Book, you may not know that the tales upon which the popular movie was based comprised a significant proportion of British author Rudyard...

Jacob's Room

by Virginia Woolf

Widely regarded as one of the most important modernist writers, Virginia Woolf was also one of the most important female authors of the twentieth century. Jacob's Room, Woolf's third novel, is an experimental...

On the Eve

by Ivan Turgenev

On the eve of the Crimean war a young woman, Elena, is pursued by two men. She disappoints them and her affected, social-climbing family when she marries a Bulgarian revolutionary. Sickness and war intervene...

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Tales

by Bram Stoker

Menacing tales from one of the masters of horror fiction

Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the macabre. Comprised of...

Richard III

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

Featuring a new overview of Shakespeare's works by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, this Signet classic also includes a comprehensive stage and screen history, dramatic...

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

The newly revised signet classic Shakespeare series, these editions are the works of the world's greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholars. Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Stowe & Darryl Pinckney

Arguably the most influential novel in American history, Uncle Tom's Cabin fanned the embers of the struggle between free states and slave states into the fire of the Civil War-and is as powerful and relevant...

The Assassination Bureau, Ltd.

by Jack London & Donald Pease

London’s suspense thriller focuses on the fine distinction between state- justified murder and criminal violence in the Assassination Bureau—an organization whose mandate is to rid the state of all its...

The Bostonians

by Henry James

‘There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death’

Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wealthy...

Gothic Tales

by Elizabeth Gaskell & Laura Kranzler

Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling Gothic tales blend the real and the supernatural to eerie, compelling effect. 'Disappearances', inspired by local legends of mysterious vanishings, mixes gossip and fact; 'Lois the...

The Purgatorio

by Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

In The Inferno Dante described his journey to the depths of evil, to the recognition of the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he now describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering...

The Phantom of the Opera

by Gaston Leroux & Dr. John L. Flynn

A gothic masterpiece.

The story that has captured the imagination for a century, The Phantom of the Opera continues to this day as an unparalleled work of sheer entertainment.

The Innocents Abroad

by Mark Twain & Michael Meyer

One of the most famous travel books ever written by an American, here is an irreverent and incisive commentary on the "New Barbarians'" encounter with the Old World. Twain's hilarious satire impales with sharp...

Selected Tales and Sketches

by Nathaniel Hawthorne & Michael Colacurcio

The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer...

Of Human Bondage

by W. Somerset Maugham & Benjamin DeMott

From an orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge. Then he falls obsessively in love, embarking on a disastrous relationship...

White Fang

by Jack London

In the desolate, frozen wilds of northwest Canada, a wolf cub soon finds himself the sole survivor of the litter. Son of Kiche-half-wolf, half-dog-and the aging wolf One Eye, he is thrust into a savage world...