Classics

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...

Passages

by Barbara H. Solomon & Eileen Panetta

24 stories from today's best indian authors

India's literary tradition has found a growing audience around the world. Many talented writers have arrived on the scene, each illuminating different parts of the...

The Scarlet Pimpernel: (100th Anniversary Edition)

by Baroness Orczy & Gary Happenstand

This timeless novel of intrigue and romance is the adventure of one man's defiance in the face of authority. The rulers of the French Revolution are unable to discern the identity of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a...

The Virginian (100th Anniversary)

by Owen Wister & Max Evans

The novel that inspired a century of Westerns... Signet is proud to present a special centennial edition of The Virginian, a novel featuring the first fully realized cowboy hero in American literarture-a near-mythic...

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen & Margaret Drabble

A tale of two sisters

Two sisters of opposing temperaments are brought to a closer understanding by their mutual disappointments-and true love finally triumphs when sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility...

Four Classic American Novels: The Scarlet Letter, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The RedBadge Of Courage, Billy Budd

by Nathaniel Hawthorne & Mark Twain

An adulteress, a runaway boy, a terrified soldier, and a maltreated sailor-all the heroes of these must-read novels have become part of our American literary heritage.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

by Mark Twain

As part of the wonderful Collector's Library series, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is one of the best-loved children's classics of all time. This attractive volume contains the complete and unabridged story with...

Tales of the Jazz Age

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Evoking the Jazz-Age world that would later appear in his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, this essential Fitzgerald collection contains some of the writer’s most famous and celebrated stories. In “The Curious...

The Dollmaker

by Harriette Arnow

The Dollmaker was originally published in 1954 to immediate success and critical acclaim. In unadorned and powerful prose, Harriette Arnow tells the unforgettable and heartbreaking story of the Nevels family...

Of One Blood: Or, the Hidden Self: The Givens Collection

by Pauline Hopkins & Deborah McDowell

Of One Blood is the last of four novels written by Pauline Hopkins. She is considered by some to be "the most prolific African-American woman writer and the most influential literary editor of the first decade...

Look Homeward, Angel

by Thomas Wolfe

The stunning, classic coming-of-age novel written by one of America's foremost Southern writers

A legendary author on par with William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Wolfe published Look Homeward, Angel...

Tender is the Night

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in a friend's copy of Tender Is the Night, "If you liked The Great Gatsby, for God's sake read this. Gatsby was a tour de force but this is a confession of faith." Set in the South...

Love of the Last Tycoon: The Authorized Text

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Last Tycoon, edited by the renowned literary critic Edmund Wilson, was first published a year after Fitzgerald's death and includes the author's notes and outline for his unfinished literary masterpiece....

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the author was only twenty-three years old. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic...