Classics

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

by Jules Verne

Jules Verne's classic underwater adventure Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is probably his most famous and popular work. In this classic science fiction novel Captain Nemo and his crew travel the world's...

Dracula

by Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker's vampire classic opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker's terrifying stay at Count Dracula's crumbling Transylvanian castle. But by the time Harker returns to England, a series of unusual events suggest...

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley's classic work of horror and science fiction tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant scientist who discovers how to create life. But when he rejects the horrific monster he creates,...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

A dark secret lurks in the attic of the seemingly youthful Dorian Gray: a portrait that ages instead of him. And while his outer appearance remains untarnished, his painted image grows ever older and more hideous...

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

The last time Captain Ahab encountered the fearsome whale Moby Dick, his ship was destroyed and he lost a leg. Now the crazed captain is out for revenge at any cost, as he and his crew traverse the seas in search...

The Weatherhouse

by Nan Shepherd

Introduced by Roderick Watson. Garry Forbes comes home from the trenches, suffering from shellshock, to find a local girl claiming to have been engaged to one of his dead friends. He sets out to expose her fantasies...

The Wallace

by Blind Harry

Edited and Introduced by Anne McKim. This extraordinary poem has been widely popular and influential ever since it was written in the fifteenth century, and its heroic account of the swordfighter Wallace was...

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

First published in 1854, Hard Times is a profoundly moving, articulate and searing indictment of the life-reducing effects of the industrial revolution, and certain aspects of enlightenment thinking. Set in...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Tales of the Jazz Age

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Benjamin Button is no ordinary newborn boy. He looks 70 years old and can speak. And, as eventually becomes clear, he is ageing backwards. This story, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's other Tales of the Jazz Age perfectly...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story begins in 1860, just before the beginning of the American Civil War, with the birth of the central character, Benjamin...

Ethan Frome

by Edith Wharton

In the fictional New England town of Starkfield, an unnamed narrator is forced to stay at the home of Ethan Frome during a winter storm. He relates his encounter with Frome, "the most striking figure in Starkfield,...

Pollyanna Grows Up

by Eleanor H. Porter

Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself. Numerous following sequels have been written by various authors. Pollyanna's crippling spinal injury has been...

Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search for...

The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop, an enchanting shop of odds and ends. Desperate to make a better life for his Nell, Grandfather secretly gambles and...

The Lady and the Pirate

by Emerson Hough

The Lady and the Pirate is a romance adventure novel from the well-known American author Emerson Hough (1857-1923). From the story:

There came a faint scratching at the door, a little whimpering whine. "It is...

Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott

Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is commonly considered to be the last novel in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women series. It takes place ten years after Little Men and follows the...

The Three Musketeers

by Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers follows the young d'Artagnan in his quest to become a musketeer. He befriends the three musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, whose motto is "all for one, one for all."

The novel is the first...

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

North and South draws on Gaskell's own experiences of the poverty and hardship of life in the industrial north of England. Her heroine, Margaret Hale, is taken from the wealthy south by her nonconformist minister...

The Golden Ass

by Lucius Apuleius

The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius is the only complete Latin novel to have survived to this day. Lucius of Maudorus is insatiably curious about magic, but when he tries to magic himself into a bird, he transforms...

The Magician

by W. Somerset Maugham

Maugham wrote The Magician after meeting the famous magician and occultist Aleister Crowly in Paris. He caricatures Crowly as the protagonist Oliver Haddo, a magician who is attempting to create life. Crowly...