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From the sharp-witted romance of Pride and Prejudice to the haunting chill of Frankenstein, our Classics shelf holds stories that have shaped readers for generations. These are the novels that invite you back again and again, revealing something new each time. Lose yourself in the foggy streets of Victorian London, the wild moors of Yorkshire, or the vast seas of Moby-Dick.

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Classics

The Portrait of a Lady

by Henry James

A spirited young American inherits a fortune and the freedom to choose her own life in Europe, only to find her choices narrowing.

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Grimms' Fairy Tales

by Brothers Grimm

A lantern-lit path through the dark woods of storytelling, where every rustling leaf hides a lesson and every cottage door creaks with consequence.

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Peter Pan

by J. M. Barrie

A boy who refuses to grow up leads children to a world of pirates, fairies, and endless adventure.

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Children's

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

A girl chases a pocket-watch-wielding rabbit into a realm where logic unravels like a ball of yarn.

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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

A Roman emperor's private reflections on power, mortality, and inner freedom.

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Adventure

The Odyssey

by Homer (tr. Butler)

Odysseus’ decade-long voyage home from the Trojan War is a tale of cunning, endurance, and the unyielding pull of Ithaca.

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Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' is a wild, uncontainable ode to life itself, a celebration of the individual and the infinite.

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Adventure

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A feverish descent into guilt and redemption, Dostoevsky’s 'Crime and Punishment' follows a tormented student who believes he’s beyond morality—until his crime consumes him.

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Emma

by Jane Austen

Emma Woodhouse, convinced of her matchmaking prowess, navigates the social intricacies of Highbury with wit and charm—until her meddling unravels unexpected consequences.

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Adventure

Moby-Dick

by Herman Melville

Ahab’s monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale becomes a swirling vortex of biblical allusions and salt-stained philosophy.

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

A governess with a fierce heart navigates love, loss, and the shadows of Thornfield Hall.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

London’s foggy alleyways conceal crimes only Sherlock Holmes can unravel.

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Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

A scientist's reckless ambition births a sentient being—one whose loneliness curdles into rage.

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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is the enduring classic of wit, courtship, social pressure, misjudgment, and the gradual correction of first impressions.

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Utopia

by Thomas More

Thomas More’s Utopia is a foundational classic of political thought and social imagination, presented in a clean DotBooks edition for modern readers.

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Biography & Memoir

The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau’s Confessions is a foundational autobiographical classic of self-examination and Enlightenment thought.

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Adventure

Homer's Odyssey

by Homer (trans. Samuel Butler)

Homer's timeless epic of homecoming, in Samuel Butler's clear English prose.

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Biography & Memoir

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

Plutarch's celebrated parallel biographies of the great figures of Greece and Rome.

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Children's

The Story Girl

by L. M. Montgomery

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Imaginary Conversations and Poems

Walter Savage Landor's celebrated prose dialogues, in which historical and legendary figures meet across the centuries to argue, reflect, and confide, gathered here with a selectio

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Children

At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald

George MacDonald's tender Victorian fantasy.

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The Republic of Plato

by Plato

Plato’s great dialogue on justice, education, power, and the shape of an ideal city remains one of the defining books of political thought.

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Adventure

The Aeneid of Virgil

by Virgil

Virgil’s epic of exile, destiny, war, and empire follows Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding myth of Rome.

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Children

Andersen's Fairy Tales

by Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen’s tales mingle enchantment, wit, sorrow, and moral sharpness in one of the great story collections for all ages.

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Children

Five Little Peppers at School

by Margaret Sidney

Another warm-hearted installment in Margaret Sidney's beloved Five Little Peppers series, following the lively Pepper children as they face the trials, friendships, and lessons of

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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

by Robert Burns

The complete lyric world of Scotland's national poet, from tender love songs to biting satire.

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Classics

Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov

A gathering of short stories by Anton Chekhov, master of the modern form.

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Children

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight

by Anonymous (Middle English Poet)

The great Middle English romance in which Sir Gawain accepts a mysterious stranger's deadly game, and rides out to keep a bargain that will test his courage, courtesy and truth to

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The Comedies of Terence: Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes

The six surviving comedies of Rome's most elegant playwright, rendered into plain English prose with helpful notes.

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Children

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

by Hesiod & Homer

The essential companion to Homer: Hesiod's poems of the gods and the farming year, the Homeric Hymns, and the surviving fragments of early Greek epic.

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The Satyricon — Complete

by Petronius Arbiter

Petronius's outrageous, fragmentary Roman satire of appetite and excess, following disreputable wanderers through a vivid, decadent world of the early empire.

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On the Nature of Things

by Lucretius Carus, Titus

Lucretius's magnificent philosophical poem, which sets out an atomist vision of a universe made of matter and void, aiming to free the mind from fear of the gods and of death.

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The Book of the Courtier

by Baldesar Castiglione

Baldassare Castiglione's Renaissance dialogue imagines the perfect courtier over four candlelit evenings at Urbino, weighing grace, wit, love and virtue with the ease of good compa

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The History of the Peloponnesian War

by Thucydides

The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is a foundational work of history and political realism on war, power, leadership, rhetoric, and civil conflict.

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Adventure

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Verne, Jules

A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is a foundational science-fiction adventure filled with subterranean wonder, peril, discovery, and scientific imagination.

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Microcosmography

A witty gallery of English character sketches from the early seventeenth century, portraying types high and low with sharp observation and dry humour.

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Classics

Apology

by Plato

Plato’s compact defense of Socrates joins courtroom speech to enduring questions about philosophy and conscience.

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The Sceptical Chymist: or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypos

Robert Boyle's landmark 1661 dialogue challenges the old doctrines of the alchemists and Aristotelians, pressing the questions that would help turn alchemy into modern chemistry.

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Gargantua and Pantagruel

by Francois Rabelais

Rabelais's riotous Renaissance saga of two giants — a torrent of comedy, satire, learning and appetite that celebrates the body, the mind and the freedom of laughter.

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Children

The Bakhtyār Nāma

A classic Persian frame-tale in which a young man, condemned to death, spins story after story to buy time and reveal the truth.

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Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete

The complete three series of Emily Dickinson's poems, the quiet Amherst recluse whose compressed, dazzling verse remade American poetry.

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The Castle of Otranto

by Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole's foundational gothic novel, where a doomed castle, a monstrous prophecy, and supernatural terror announce a whole new genre.

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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius: Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronologi

The biting verse satires of Rome's great satirists, Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia and Lucilius, rendered into English prose with notes, offering an unsparing portrait of ancient Roman

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Barchester Towers

by Trollope, Anthony

Anthony Trollope's beloved comedy of clerical politics, where a new bishop, his formidable wife, and an oily chaplain upend the quiet cathedral town of Barchester.

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The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims ride toward Canterbury, swapping stories that argue, tease and confess.

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Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth

Three of Cicero's great philosophical works together, the Tusculan Disputations on how to live and die well, On the Nature of the Gods on religion, and On the Commonwealth on the j

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Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant

by Guy de Maupassant

The full range of Maupassant's short fiction, from Norman farmhouses to Parisian salons.

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