Classics

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Bronte

Over a short period in the 1840s, the three Brontë sisters working in a remote English parsonage produced some of the best-loved and most-enduring of all novels: Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights,...

Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes

"Don Quixote is practically unthinkable as a living being," said novelist Milan Kundera. "And yet, in our memory, what character is more alive?"

Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, Don Quixote...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

In his first and still most widely read novel, James Joyce makes a strange peace with the traditional narrative of a young man’s self-discovery by respecting its substance while...

Emma

by Jane Austen

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

The most perfect of Jane Austen’s perfect novels begins with twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse comfortably dominating the social order in the village of Highbury, convinced that...

Captains Courageous

by Rudyard Kipling

Illustrazioni di Duccio Beconcini. Uno dei più noti classici dell'avventura, Capitani Coraggiosi di Rudyard Kipling, è riproposto in una nuova edizione in lingua originale e arricchito con tavole illustrate....

Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

Illustrazioni di Ilaria Mattia. La giovane mano di Ilaria Mattia rappresenta alcune delle più famose fiabe di Andersen mostrando con immagini fresche e variopinte le magiche finzioni di storie ancora oggi tra...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte

In conjunction with the New York Public Library, Doubleday is proud to introduce a very special collector's series of literary masterpieces. Lavishly illustrated with rare archival material from the library's...

Dracula: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Bram Stoker

Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker’s Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: 'It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's...

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

Widely regarded as Dickens’s masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which “whole families have inherited legendary hatreds.” Focusing on Esther...

Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology...

The Forbidden Kingdom

by Jan Jacob Slauerhoff & Paul Vincent

Slauerhoff’s The Forbidden Kingdom is a blend of historical chronicle, fiction and commentary, bringing together the seemingly unrelated lives of a twentieth-century ship’s radio operator and the sixteenth-century...

Dying

by Arthur Schnitzler & Anthea Bell

When Felix is diagnosed with a terminal illness, his lover Marie immediately swears to die with him. However, as their last year unfolds and Felix’s illness progresses, Marie’s begins to lose courage at...

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Set in his fictional Wessex countryside in southwest England, Far from the Madding Crowd was Thomas Hardy's breakthrough work. Though it was first published anonymously in 1874, the quick and tremendous success...

The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins & Carolyn G. Heilbrun

"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazing story through the recountings of its several narrators, all of them enticing and singular." Wilkie Collins’s...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

by G.K. Chesterton & Jonathan Lethem

G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores...

Iola Leroy

by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper & Hollis Robbins

A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath

First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the great writer and activist Frances Harper tells the story of...

A Dance of Folly and Pleasure

by O. Henry

Step into the boarding houses and furnished rooms of New York City, or take a stroll around the park. Observe the tumult and glitter of Broadway on a Saturday night, and browse the silken stockings in Manhattan’s...

Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #8

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Adam Beau McFarlane & Marvin Kaye

The eighth issue of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine features the usual assortment of stories and non-fiction, including:

"Sun Ching Foo's Last Trick," by Adam Beau McFarlane

"Do You Love Me?" by Marc Bilgrey...

White Nights & Other Stories

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

White Nights, a sentimental story from the diary of a dreamer, is told in first person by a nameless narrator who lives alone in St. Petersburg and suffers from loneliness and the inability to stop thinking....

Anne of the Island

by Lucy Montgomery

In the continuing story of Anne Shirley, Anne leaves Green Gables and her work as a teacher in Avonlea to pursue her dream of taking further education at Redmond College in Nova Scotia. Gilbert Blythe and Charlie...