Classics

Best Selling / Page 78

icon Subscribe to feed

Browse

Best Selling

New Releases

 

Category

Delete Classics

 

In category

Modern (<1799) (84)

Ancient History (4)

XXth century (<1945) (2)

Middle Age (1)

XIXth century (1)

 

Origin

English (156)

Slavic (3)

Asian (3)

Germanophone (2)

 

Price

All (2247)

Free (0)

Below $5 (1227)

Below $10 (1880)

Below $15 (2208)

Delete Price range

From :
To :
OK

 

Protection

All (2247)

DRM Free (117)

DRM (2097)

 

Language

English (2247)

French (753)

German (654)

Spanish (164)

Italian (1556)

More options

The Prince and the Pauper

by Mark Twain & Jerry Griswold

This 1881 novel about a poor boy, Tom Canty, who exchanges identities with Edward Tudor, the prince of England, is at once an adventure story, a fantasy of timeless appeal, and an intriguing example of the author's...


Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories

by Thomas Mann

Eight complex stories illustrative of the author's belief that "a story must tell itself," highlighted by the high art style of the famous title novella.

From the Trade Paperback edition.


The Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

One of the last plays Shakespeare penned on his own, The Winter’s Tale is a transcendent work of death and rebirth, exploring irrational sexual jealousy, the redemptive world of nature, and the magical power...


Oedipus the King

by Sophocles

The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.

A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived...


Main Street: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Sinclair Lewis

With Commentary by E. M. Forster, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, Rebecca West, Sherwood Anderson, Malcolm Cowley, Alfred Kazin, Constance Rourke, and Mark Schorer Main Street is the climax of...


Emma

by Jane Austen

Introduction by A. Walton Litz

 

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one...


Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the English language. "Only Emily...


Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

Bleak House is one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. The story follows long-running litigation in...


The Happy Hypocrite: (Colour Illustrated Edition)

by Max Beerbohm & George Sheringham

From its magnificent first sentence . . ."None, it is said, of all who revelled with the Regent, was half so wicked as Lord George Hell . . ."The Happy Hypocrite exerts a hypnotising charm. Sir Max Beerbohm's...


Ecstasy

by Louis Couperus, Teixteira de Mattos & John Gray

Cecile, a beautiful young window, falls in love with a notorious womanizer, and for that reason must endure intense suffering and pain in the midst of polite society. Ecstasy’s tranquil setting in late 19th-century...


Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

by Jules Verne & Lewis Page Mercer

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea tells the classic story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus as seen from the point of view of Professor Pierre Aronnax, who was commissioned to find the mysterious...


Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte

When Jane Eyre was first published in 1847, it became an instant bestseller, so popular that the publisher commissioned a second printing in just three months. The story of a young girl--plain, poor, and alone--who...


Dracula

by Bram Stoker

Irish author Bram Stoker introduced the character of Count Dracula and provided the basis of modern vampire fiction in his 1897 novel entitled Dracula. Written as a series of letters, newspaper clippings, diary...


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of twelve short stories by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle, is considered a milestone in the genre of detective fiction. With Sherlock Holmes’s clever disguises...


Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen wrote the original draft of Sense and Sensibility around 1795 at the age of nineteen, and published it in 1811. This classic tale takes place in southwest England and follows the Dashwood sisters,...


A Guide for Grown-ups: Essential Wisdom from the Collected Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupery

by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”

For more than sixty years, this insight from The Little Prince has been quoted in more than 130 languages by fans around...


Kama Sutra: (Classics Deluxe Edition)

by Vatsyayana & A. N. D. Haksar

A gorgeous deluxe edition of the world's most celebrated guide to life, love, relationships and pleasure.

Little is known about Vatsyayana, who is reputed to have composed the Kama Sutra "while observing a...


A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.


Little Lord Fauntleroy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The first children's novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy enjoyed an unprecedented popularity among both children and adult readers. The fame and popularity of Little Lord Fauntleroy...


Howards End

by E.M. Forster

"Only Connect," Forster's key aphorism, informs this novel about an English country house, Howards End, and its influence on the lives of the wealthy and materialistic Wilcoxes; the cultured, idealistic Schlegel...