Classics

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Jules Verne

This high-tension odyssey follows three men in an awesome search for the mysterious center of the earth-as they risk their chances of ever returning to the surface alive.

The Story of my Life (100th Anniversary Edition)

by Helen Keller

The Story of My Life is Helen Keller's own account of how she miraculously triumphed over blindness and deafness-and became one of the most inspiring and intriguing figures of our time.

Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine

by Thomas Paine

Paine's daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. This volume also includes "The Crisis," "The Age of Reason," and "Agrarian Justice."

The Paradiso

by Dante Alighieri & John Ciardi

In The Inferno Dante journeyed to the depths of evil and the true nature of sin. In The Purgatorio he explored the renunciation of sin. Now, in The Paradiso, the final canticle in The Divine Comedy, Dante shares...

Northland Stories

by Jack London & Jonathan Auerbach

Victim in the Vineyard Jessica Fletcher is visiting the Napa Valley wine country while doing research for her next book, and invites her old friend, Scotland Yard detective George Sutherland to join her at a...

Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens & Frederick Busch

Reason, Facts, and statistics...

Dickens' scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, Hard Times features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly...

Richard II

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

Newly revised with an Overview by Sylvan Barnet, former chairman of the English Department at Tufts University

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne & Milton Stern

An intense psychological drama devoted to the burden of inherited guilt and the work of retribution. As always in Hawthorne, the greatest sin is the violation of the integrity of another person's soul.

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

by Oscar Wilde & Sylvan Barnet

Three classic plays, including Wilde's most famous play which attacks Victorian manners and morals.

Great Dialogues of Plato

by Plato & W. H. D. Rouse

Written in the form of debates, Great Dialogues of Plato comprises the most influential body of philosophy of the Western world-covering every subject from art and beauty to virtue and the nature of love.

Henry VI, Part 3

by William Shakespeare & A. Braunmuller

I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories: 100th Anniversary Edition

by Jack London

This 100th Anniversary Edition presents the timeless tale of Humphrey Van Weyden, pressed into service aboard the seal-hunting Ghost, led by the brutal, enigmatic captain Wolf Larsen. This volume also includes...

The Sport of the Gods

by Paul Laurence Dunbar & William Andrews

In this brilliant novel, Paul Laurence Dunbar presents a grim, ironic look at the urban black experience. The story of a displaced Southern family's struggle to survive and prosper in Harlem, The Sport of the...

The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories

by Jack London & Andrew Sinclair

This collection includes The Call of the Wild and its companion novel, White Fang, as well as all of Jack London's famous dog stories—"Batard," "Moon-Face," "Brown Wolf," "That Spot," and "To Build a Fire."...

Sketches by Boz

by Charles Dickens & Dennis Walder

"Sketches by Boz collected a rich and strange mixture of reportage, observation, fancy and fiction centred on the metropolis. It was Dickens's first book, published when he was twenty-four, and in it we find...

Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida

by Various & Robert Chandler

This original anthology of short stories covers two centuries of Russian literary tradition, from the early nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union and beyond, and includes not only well-known...

Barnaby Rudge

by Charles Dickens & Gordon Spence

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Gordon W. Spence.

The Ambassadors

by Henry James & Adrian Poole

An incomparable Henry James's novel in a new edition

Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals in the best Jamesian tradition. The Ambassadors is a subtle...