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Burning Daylight

Burning Daylight

Jack London follows a legendary Klondike gold-rush adventurer from the frozen North to the boardrooms of California, in a sweeping novel about fortune, corruption and the search fo

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Martin Eden

Martin Eden

Jack London’s ambitious novelist-hero climbs through class aspiration, self-education, romantic idealism, and social disillusion in a fierce modern classic of literary ambition.

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The Sea-Wolf

The Sea-Wolf

Jack London strands a cultivated survivor aboard a sealing schooner ruled by Wolf Larsen, creating a sea novel of violence, philosophy, power, and endurance.

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Men Like Gods

Men Like Gods

H.G.

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The Sleeper Awakes

The Sleeper Awakes

A man falls into a trance and wakes two centuries later to find his tiny savings have compounded into ownership of the world.

$7.00

The First Men in the Moon

The First Men in the Moon

H.

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The Island of Doctor Moreau

The Island of Doctor Moreau

H.

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The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The world's greatest detective is back from the dead and back on the trail.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

A superb Sherlock Holmes collection featuring some of Arthur Conan Doyle's most memorable investigations and character moments.

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The Sign of Four

The Sign of Four

Sherlock Holmes and Dr.

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A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

The novel that lit the fuse.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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The Lost World

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle sends Professor Challenger into the Amazon in a classic adventure filled with dinosaurs, danger, and discovery.

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Plain Tales from the Hills

Plain Tales from the Hills

Rudyard Kipling's early stories capture British India in swift, knowing sketches of soldiers, officials and lovers, revealing a young writer's dazzling ear for the ironies of colon

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Kim

Kim

Rudyard Kipling’s great picaresque follows Kimball O’Hara across colonial India through espionage, spiritual quest, railway movement, and a world alive with competing loyalties.

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Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous

Rudyard Kipling turns a boy-overboard rescue into a sea-going coming-of-age novel about labor, discipline, pride, and earned self-respect aboard a North Atlantic fishing schooner.

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From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon

Jules Verne's visionary adventure of the space age before it began.

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The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island

Five castaways marooned by balloon on an uncharted island rebuild civilisation from nothing, guided by a hidden benefactor.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne's founding adventure sends a stubborn professor and his reluctant nephew down a volcano into a hidden underworld of oceans, storms and prehistoric wonders beneath our f

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Captured aboard a mysterious submarine, three men voyage through the ocean's depths with the brilliant, embittered Captain Nemo.

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Around the World in Eighty Days

Around the World in Eighty Days

Jules Verne's exhilarating race against the clock.

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The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip

Alexandre Dumas turns seventeenth-century Holland, political danger, and tulip fever into a fast-moving historical adventure.

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Queen Margot

Queen Margot

A fast-moving historical novel of royal marriage, court intrigue, and sectarian conflict in sixteenth-century France.

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Twenty Years After

Twenty Years After

Two decades on, the four musketeers reunite amid civil war and shifting loyalties, older and no longer all on the same side.

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The Three Musketeers

The Three Musketeers

A young Gascon named d'Artagnan comes to Paris to make his fortune with a sword and falls in with three inseparable comrades.

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The Man in the Iron Mask

The Man in the Iron Mask

The ageing musketeers are drawn into a perilous royal secret and a plot that could topple a king.

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No Name

No Name

Wilkie Collins delivers a gripping sensation novel of inheritance, identity, sisters, and revenge in Victorian England.

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Armadale

Armadale

Wilkie Collins's audacious sensation novel.

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The Woman in White

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins invented the modern thriller with this tale of a night-time encounter, a stolen inheritance, and two women whose lives are dangerously entangled.

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The Moonstone

The Moonstone

A cursed Indian diamond vanishes from an English country house, and everyone becomes a suspect.

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Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Two women, one scheming and one sweet, make their way through a glittering, mercenary society during the Napoleonic era.

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Under the Greenwood Tree

Under the Greenwood Tree

Thomas Hardy's gentlest novel follows a village choir facing extinction and a young schoolmistress courted by three suitors, offering a warm, wry pastoral of a rural England alread

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The Woodlanders

The Woodlanders

Thomas Hardy’s tragic woodland novel of love, social pressure, class tension, and the slow ruin of human hopes.

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Jude the Obscure

Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy's bleakest, boldest novel follows a stonemason who longs to be a scholar and loves against the rules, only to be crushed by class, marriage and the indifference of the

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The Mayor of Casterbridge

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy's tragic masterpiece explores guilt, pride, fate, and ruin in one of the great character studies of Victorian fiction.

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Far from the Madding Crowd

Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy's beloved pastoral drama.

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The Return of the Native

The Return of the Native

On a brooding stretch of heathland, ambition, love and misunderstanding pull a handful of lives toward disaster.

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Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda

George Eliot's bold final novel binds a spoiled society beauty's moral awakening to a young man's discovery of his Jewish heritage, reaching beyond England toward questions of iden

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Adam Bede

Adam Bede

George Eliot’s first novel brings rural labor, moral consequence, and intimate human conflict into a broad, patient work of Victorian realism.

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Silas Marner

Silas Marner

George Eliot's tender fable follows a betrayed, miserly weaver whose hoarded gold is stolen and replaced by an abandoned child, in a moving parable of loss, community and quiet red

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Middlemarch

Middlemarch

George Eliot's vast, humane masterpiece anatomises an English town on the edge of reform, weaving idealists, doctors and disappointed hearts into the fullest portrait of a society

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The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss

A clever, passionate girl grows up bound to a brother she adores and a provincial world that cannot contain her.

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Wives and Daughters

Wives and Daughters

Elizabeth Gaskell’s great domestic novel of family change, courtship, social nuance, and moral intelligence.

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Mary Barton

Mary Barton

Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel plunges into the hungry streets of industrial Manchester, tracing a working family through strike, love and a murder that binds masters and men in s

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North and South

North and South

A richly observed Victorian novel of industry, class, conscience, and slow-burning romance by Elizabeth Gaskell.

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Cranford

Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskell's affectionate portrait of a small English town governed by its genteel spinsters turns everyday visits, small economies and quiet losses into comedy of the trues

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Sanditon

Sanditon

Jane Austen's tantalising final work, left unfinished at her death.

$5.50

The Watsons

The Watsons

Jane Austen's unfinished novel follows Emma Watson, raised in comfort and returned to a struggling family, as she navigates a country neighbourhood's marriages and manoeuvres.

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Love and Freindship

Love and Freindship

Jane Austen wrote this gleeful spoof of sentimental fiction as a teenager, and its fainting heroines and absurd coincidences reveal the razor wit that would later power her great n

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Lady Susan

Lady Susan

Jane Austen's sly early novella, told entirely in letters, follows a beautiful, scheming widow as she manipulates suitors and society, giving Austen her most deliciously wicked her

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Shirley

Shirley

Charlotte Brontë's ambitious social novel.

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Villette

Villette

A reserved young Englishwoman takes a teaching post in a foreign city and confronts loneliness, longing and a fiercely guarded heart.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anne Brontë's bold second novel follows a secretive young widow who arrives at a crumbling hall, and the diary that reveals why she fled her marriage.

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Agnes Grey

Agnes Grey

Anne Brontë's clear-eyed first novel follows a clergyman's daughter into the thankless world of the Victorian governess, where gentility masks cruelty and quiet integrity is its ow

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The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers

The Pickwick Papers is a polished DotBooks classic novel for readers who want character, atmosphere, and enduring literary appeal in a clean digital edition.

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Martin Chuzzlewit

Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens's great comic satire on selfishness and greed.

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Barnaby Rudge

Barnaby Rudge

Charles Dickens's sweeping historical novel of riot and unrest.

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The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop

A gentle girl and her failing grandfather flee into the wide world, pursued by a grotesque and gleeful villain.

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Our Mutual Friend

Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens's last completed novel, a dark and dazzling panorama of money, identity and the London river.

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