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.
Classics
As You Like It
A witty Shakespearean comedy of exile, disguise, pastoral courtship, and reinvention in the Forest of Arden.
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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus: From the Quarto of 1604
Christopher Marlowe's mighty tragedy of the scholar who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power.
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Children
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
The great medieval love story retold with grace and passion: a knight, a queen, a fatal potion, and a love that defies king, honour, and death itself, one of the founding legends o
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Adventure
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
Howard Pyle's classic retelling of the Robin Hood legend, gathering the greenwood's finest tales of daring, disguise and good cheer into one rousing, richly told adventure.
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The Book of Ballads: Eleventh Edition, 1870
A Victorian gathering of ballads, drawing on the long tradition of narrative song and verse.
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Classics
I. Beowulf
The great Old English epic, sung in a mead-hall world of monsters, gold, and doom.
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Classics
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's celebrated sequence of love sonnets, among the most cherished in English.
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Classics
Symposium
A drinking party in ancient Athens becomes a contest of speeches in praise of love.
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake's twinned cycles showing the two contrary states of the human soul.
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Adventure
Lorna Doone
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The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
Two masterworks of the Roman historian Tacitus: the Germania, an ethnography of the tribes beyond the Rhine, and the Agricola, a biography of his father-in-law and the conquest of
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One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories: Right Pleasaunte To Relate In All Goodly Companie By Way Of Joyance And Joll
A bawdy, high-spirited collection of Renaissance tales in the tradition of Boccaccio: a hundred short stories of wit, mischief, love, and folly, told for the pleasure of good compa
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Classics
Dubliners
James Joyce's incomparable collection of stories mapping the everyday lives of early-twentieth-century Dublin.
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Children
Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I
The opening book of Edmund Spenser's great Elizabethan epic, following the Red Cross Knight and the lady Una on a quest that is at once a thrilling romance and a rich allegory of h
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Manon Lescaut
The Abbé Prévost's famous tale of a young man's ruinous passion for the beautiful, faithless Manon.
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Don Juan
The legendary seducer reimagined as the hero of a sprawling, satirical verse epic.
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Adventure
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe’s enduring adventure classic follows Robinson Crusoe through shipwreck, solitude, labor, fear, and survival on a remote island.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Shakespeare’s moonlit comedy mixes lovers, fairies, artisans, and theatrical mischief in one of the most durable plays of enchantment and confusion.
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Plutarch's Morals
Plutarch's wide-ranging essays and dialogues on how to live, think, and govern oneself.
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Children
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Washington Irving's immortal tale of the gangling schoolmaster Ichabod Crane, the drowsy Dutch hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, and the terrifying midnight rider who haunts its glen.
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Children
A Christmas Carol in Prose
Charles Dickens's timeless ghost story of a miser, three spirits, and one cold heart thawed in a single night.
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Goethe's incendiary early novel lays bare the anguished heart of a sensitive young man consumed by hopeless love, a work that gripped a generation, defined literary Romanticism and
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The Monk
Matthew Lewis's notorious Gothic novel, a lurid, gripping tale of a revered monk undone by temptation, in which piety collapses into obsession, corruption and supernatural terror.
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Adventure
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne's thrilling descent into the hollow depths of the planet, where a determined professor and his companions find a lost world beneath our feet.
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Adventure
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
The once and future king, his fellowship of the Round Table, and the long dream of Camelot, retold with the sweep and sorrow of the old romances.
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A farewell to arms
Ernest Hemingway's stark, tender novel of love and war on the Italian front.
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Children
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain's beloved tale of two identical boys, a Tudor prince and a beggar, who trade places and learn hard truths about power and poverty in old England.
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Adventure
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain is a witty, inventive classic that blends time travel, satire, adventure, and social criticism.
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Children
Four Arthurian Romances
Chrétien de Troyes's foundational tales of Arthur's court — knightly quests, courtly love and moral trial from the poet who shaped the Round Table for all who followed.
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Children
Poems Every Child Should Know
A beloved anthology gathering the poems generations were once expected to grow up with — verses to be memorised, recited, and carried for life.
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Classics
The Complete Works of Jane Austen
The complete works of Jane Austen gathered in one volume, from Pride and Prejudice to Emma and Persuasion, the full range of her wit, irony, and unmatched understanding of the huma
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Children
The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII
The first seven books of Ovid's dazzling poem of transformation, from the making of the world through a cascade of myths in which gods and mortals are changed into beast, tree and
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Children
Peter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]
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The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse
One of the great epics of India, the story of Rama's exile, the abduction of Sita, and the war to reclaim her, rendered into English verse.
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Adventure
The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original
Homer's great homecoming epic in Samuel Butler's clear, readable prose — the ten-year wandering of Odysseus toward Ithaca, his waiting wife and his imperilled home.
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Adventure
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
Jonathan Swift's classic satire following Lemuel Gulliver to lands of miniature people, giants, deranged intellectuals, and rational horses.
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Children
Oedipus King of Thebes: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes
Sophocles' towering tragedy of the king who unknowingly fulfills a terrible prophecy, here in a rhyming English verse translation with explanatory notes.
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Biography & Memoir
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin's classic account of his own life, from humble beginnings to fame as a printer, inventor, and statesman.
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Classics
Ulysses
James Joyce's epic of a single ordinary Dublin day, following Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom through the city.
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Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau's two great works together: the record of his experiment in simple living by Walden Pond, and his ringing argument for conscience over unjust law.
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Adventure
Beowulf
The great Old English epic of a hero who battles a monster, its vengeful mother, and finally a dragon, in Francis Barton Gummere's stately verse translation.
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Adventure
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete
Mark Twain's immortal boyhood idyll: whitewashed fences, midnight graveyards, hidden treasure and a cave.
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Children
The Two Magics
Henry James pairs his celebrated ghost story with a lighter companion tale.
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Adventure
History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
Henry Fielding's sprawling comic masterpiece follows a good-hearted foundling through misadventure, love, and English society toward the truth of his birth.
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A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen’s breakthrough drama turns a bourgeois marriage into one of modern literature’s sharpest studies of freedom, performance, and self-respect.
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Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology lets the dead of a small American town speak in piercing monologues of ambition, shame, desire, and regret.
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde’s sparkling social comedy turns false names, courtship, and perfect manners into one of the sharpest and funniest plays in English.
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The Great Gatsby
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