Genre
Classics.
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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Notre-Dame de Paris
Victor Hugo's sweeping medieval romance, gathered around the great cathedral of Paris and the souls whose fates are bound to it.
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Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The private meditations of the Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, written for himself alone.
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Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a sophisticated classic about desire, marriage, social performance, and the hidden costs of respectability in Gilded Age New York.
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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2
The gathered poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the founding voices of English Romanticism.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf's luminous novel follows a single London day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, weaving memory, consciousness, and the shadow of the Great War.
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Phaedo
Plato's account of Socrates' final hours, spent not in fear but in conversation about the soul and its fate.
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Black Beauty : $b The autobiography of a horse
Anna Sewell's beloved horse tells his own life story, from green meadows to hard city streets.
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The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II
Ovid's dazzling epic of transformation rendered into English blank verse across two volumes.
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Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres
Goethe's towering drama of a scholar who bargains with the devil, rendered into English in the meters of the original.
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Children
The Aeneid
Virgil's great Roman epic, following the Trojan hero Aeneas from the ruins of Troy toward the founding of a new destiny in Italy.
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Love's Labour's Lost
Shakespeare's sparkling early comedy of a king and his lords who forswear love for study, only to be undone by the arrival of a princess and her ladies.
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Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell
Dante's Inferno in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's celebrated English translation, following the poet's descent through the nine circles of Hell.
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Children
The Railway Children
E.
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Three hundred Aesop’s fables: Translated by George Fyler Townsend
Aesop's timeless fables in George Fyler Townsend's classic Victorian translation, three hundred brief tales in which animals speak and act out the enduring lessons of human folly,
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Children
Howards End
E.
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The Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius, awaiting execution, is visited by Philosophy herself, who consoles him with timeless reflections on fortune, happiness, and the highest good.
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Lysistrata
Aristophanes' riotous anti-war comedy, in which the women of Greece stage a sex strike to force their husbands to lay down arms.
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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
Laurence Sterne's gloriously digressive comic novel, forever wandering off the point.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe's world-shaking novel of slavery in America, whose portrait of human suffering and dignity helped galvanise the abolitionist cause and change the course of a
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Letters of Two Brides
Balzac's epistolary novel following two convent friends into contrasting marriages, one of passion, one of prudence.
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Adventure
Anabasis
Xenophon’s classic march narrative follows a stranded Greek army through retreat, leadership crisis, and survival.
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The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English
An anthology of classic mystery and detective fiction, this volume gathers modern English tales of crime, puzzle and suspense from the golden age of the short story.
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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
Sir Philip Sidney's sprawling pastoral romance sends disguised princes into a green world of shepherds, love and danger, blending adventure, poetry and courtly ideals in one of the
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Lord Byron's landmark narrative poem follows a brooding, world-weary wanderer across Europe, blending travel, reflection and passionate feeling to create the archetypal Byronic her
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The Swiss Family Robinson
Johann David Wyss's beloved tale of a shipwrecked family who build an ingenious new life on a tropical island.
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Phaedrus
Plato's luminous dialogue on love, beauty, and the written word, staged as a conversation beneath a plane tree by the Ilissus.
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
Boccaccio's dazzling collection of a hundred tales, told by young Florentines sheltering from the plague.
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy's tragic masterwork of a country girl wronged and hounded by fate, class and cruel morality, told against the fading beauty of rural Wessex.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce traces Stephen Dedalus from childhood to artistic self-assertion in a modern novel of language, conscience, faith, and ambition.
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The Idiot
Dostoevsky's tragic novel of a guileless, Christlike prince set loose in a grasping St Petersburg society, where his innocence dazzles, disturbs and is finally broken.
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Carmilla
J.
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Lady Audley's Secret
Mary Elizabeth Braddon's sensational Victorian bestseller, in which a beautiful, seemingly angelic young wife guards a dangerous secret, and a determined amateur sleuth sets out to
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His last bow : $b Some later reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
A late gathering of Sherlock Holmes cases by Arthur Conan Doyle, ranging from cryptic country mysteries to wartime espionage, closing with the great detective's most sombre and mem
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The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen's chilling novella of forbidden experiment and ancient dread, in which a glimpse behind the veil of the world unleashes a creeping, unnameable horror.
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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad's dark, ironic novel of anarchists, spies, and a bombing plot in Victorian London.
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The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
Kate Chopin's landmark novel of a woman's sensual and spiritual awakening, gathered with short stories that made her a pioneer of American literature.
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Children
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of moral tales whose talking animals, clever reversals, and concise lessons have shaped storytelling for centuries.
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Candide
Voltaire's Candide is a brisk Enlightenment satire that follows its battered hero across wars, disasters, and absurd philosophies while dismantling easy optimism.
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Camille
Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.
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Notes from the Underground
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Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll's dazzling sequel to Wonderland sends Alice through a mirror into a topsy-turvy chessboard world of talking flowers, warring kings, and unforgettable nonsense, where
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The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle
Aristotle's foundational inquiry into how a human life should be lived, and what it means to flourish.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A.
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Undine
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's exquisite fairy-tale romance of a water spirit who wins a human soul through love.
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Anne of the Island
L.
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Paradise Lost
John Milton's towering epic of the fall of humankind, telling of Satan's rebellion, the loss of Eden, and the temptation of Adam and Eve.
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Complete Short Works of George Meredith
A gathering of the shorter fiction of George Meredith, the Victorian novelist and poet known for his psychological subtlety and glittering, demanding prose.
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, guided first by Virgil and then by Beatrice.
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