Classics

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

"Northanger Abbey" was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication. Northanger Abbey follows 17-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen...

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy

Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According...

Of Human Bondage: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by W. Somerset Maugham

'It is very difficult for a writer of my generation, if he is honest, to pretend indifference to the work of Somerset Maugham,' wrote Gore Vidal. 'He was always so entirely there.' Originally published in 1915,...

Mansfield Park

by Jane Austen

The main character in "Mansfield Park", Fanny Price, is a young girl from a relatively poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four...

The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

"The Turn of the Screw" is a novella written by Henry James. It is ostensibly a ghost story in the stream of Gothic Fiction. An unnamed narrator listens to a male friend reading a manuscript written by a former...

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy

"Jude the Obscure" is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels. Its hero, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also...

Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by William Makepeace Thackeray

A marvelous, incisive social satire that gleefully exposes the greed and corruption raging in England during the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars through its tracing of the changing fortunes of two unforgettable...

Sons and Lovers: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by D.H. Lawrence

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Introduction by David Ellis

The struggle for power at the heart of a family in conflict, the mysteries of sexual initiation, and the pain of irretrievable loss are the universal...

Ivanhoe: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Walter Sir Scott

Hailed by Victor Hugo as "the real epic of our age," Ivanhoe was an immensely popular bestseller when first published in 1819. The book inspired literary imitations as well as paintings, dramatizations, and...

Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Bronte

"Jane Eyre" is a famous and influential novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. The novel goes through five distinct stages: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally and physically abused by...

Frankenstein: En Espanol

by Mary Shelley

"I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life...

The Age of Innocence: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Edith Wharton

Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and...

Women in Love: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by D.H. Lawrence

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)

Women In Love, the book Lawrence considered his best, was written during World War I, and while that conflict is never mentioned in the novel, a sense of background danger,...

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

The Return of the Native combines all of the great themes of Thomas Hardy's works. Wonderful descriptions of the English countryside underscore a rural tale of doomed love, passion, and melancholy. The novel...

Sense and Sensibility: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility is one of the best loved of Jane Austen's novels, populated by great comic creations like Mrs. Jennings, the unscrupulous cad Willoughby, and guileless and artful women. As ever, Austen...

Villette

by Charlotte Bronte

"Villette! Villette! Have you read it?" exclaimed George Eliot when Charlotte Brontë's final novel appeared in 1853. "It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural...

Persuasion: (A Modern Library E-Book)

by Jane Austen

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Of all Jane Austen’s great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving. It is the story of a second chance.

Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift...

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emmuska Baroness Orczy

The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was...

The Haunted House

by Charles Dickens & Wesley Stace

On Christmas Eve, a party of friends descends on a purportedly haunted country retreat, charged with the task of discovering evidence of the supernatural. Sequestered in their rooms for the holiday, the friends...

The Return of the Native

by Thomas Hardy

This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy’s most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called...