A clergyman's daughter falls in love with a member of high society while her father stands accused of a terrible crime in this classic Victorian novel.
The stunning collection of short fiction that established Nathaniel Hawthorne as one of the most powerful and provocative artists in nineteenth-century America Dr.
Jane Austen's classic comedy of manners is one of the most enduring love stories in English literatureIn a remote Hertfordshire village in the early nineteenth century, Mr.
A classic of detective fiction's golden age, featuring a mysterious murder, a wrongful accusation, and an intrepid man determined to find the truthYoung Viner is a gentleman through and through.
Joseph Conrad's classic oceanic adventure pits the will of man against the sheer destructive force of natureThe decks of the Nan-Shan boast young and imaginative first mate Jukes and no-nonsense captain MacWhirr.
A man becomes a recluse when he's accused of a crime he did not commitSilas Marner is a skilled weaver working long hours in London for a Calvinist sect that does not appreciate him.
Before Dracula, there was Carmilla-the first seductive vampire to haunt readers' imaginationsThis classic of Gothic horror follows Laura, a woman haunted by a girlhood dream of a beautiful visitor to her bedroom.
Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of an orphaned boy, a lama on a powerful quest, and two imperialist nations butting heads over one magical countrySet in the former Lahore, India, against the backdrop of an imperialist war between Russia and Great Britain, Kim is the coming-of-age story of Kimball O'Hara, a low-caste orphan boy roaming the streets with a "e;magic"e; talisman around his neck.
Mark Twain's historical fable explores what happens when the Prince of Wales changes places with a young beggarSet in sixteenth-century England, The Prince and the Pauper follows two boys with vastly different lives: Tom Canty, the indigent child of an abusive, roustabout thief, and Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII and heir to the throne.
James Joyce's first novel, hailed as one of the greatest works of the twentieth century, about a young Irishman's growth into artistic adulthoodA semiautobiographical story mirroring Joyce's own coming of age, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man begins when Stephen Dedalus is still a young boy.
Voltaire's satire of eighteenth-century Europe, hailed as one of the most influential works in the Western canonCandide's misfortunes begin when his uncle, a German baron, banishes him for kissing the baron's daughter, Cunegonde.
The fantastic story of the semimythical folk hero who has delighted generations of readers all over the worldPublished anonymously in 1785, The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen defies logic, the laws of physics, and even rational thought.
The quintessential story of the American frontier Set during the French and Indian War, The Last of the Mohicans is the second installment in James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales and one of the greatest action stories ever told.
The classic comic travelogue about an ill-fated boating holiday on the River ThamesThree Men in a Boat is the irreverent tale of a group of friends who, along with a fox terrier named Montmorency, embark on a two-week boating journey up the Thames.
A financial thriller based on the Panic of 1907 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The JungleIn 1907 the stock market crashed as a result of the manipulations of a group of powerful, wealthy, and unscrupulous men.
The epic fantasy novel that defined the genre, now in one volumeAs the youngest son of a king, Ralph of Upmeads is expected to forsake adventure for the safety of home.
Chiko-The Bengal Tiger is a fiction picture story book to raise the awareness of the poaching of tigers and wildlife protection of endangered species to children.
Perhaps the most comedic of all the Shakespeare plays, The Comedy of Errors, verges on farce with its confused identities, slapstick violence, and confused intentions.
"e;One of the most famous ghost stories that no one has actually read"e; (New York Times), The Phantom of the Opera is the first in the Haunted Library Horror Classics series presented by the Horror Writers Association.
It is probably natural that a reader feel sympathy for Desdemona; falsely accused, she suffers some of the most offensive name-calling in all of Shakespeare.
Much Ado About Nothing is a delightful play which pits two intelligent, thinking people against each other, both of whom protest against love (and each other), but who finally come to embrace the other both literally and emotionally.
Heres how it starts: Vardaman is chased by two older boys and he jumps into the elevator shaft and reaches for the steel cable and catches it, seven stories high, but his hands are slipping.
