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Classics
The Iron Heel
Jack London’s fierce dystopian-political novel confronts oligarchy, repression, class conflict, and revolutionary memory.
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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
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
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
H.G.
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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.
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The First Men in the Moon
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
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The Invisible Man
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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
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
Sherlock Holmes and Dr.
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A Study in Scarlet
The novel that lit the fuse.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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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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Fiction
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
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
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
Jules Verne's visionary adventure of the space age before it began.
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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
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
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
Jules Verne's exhilarating race against the clock.
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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
A fast-moving historical novel of royal marriage, court intrigue, and sectarian conflict in sixteenth-century France.
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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
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 ageing musketeers are drawn into a perilous royal secret and a plot that could topple a king.
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No Name
Wilkie Collins delivers a gripping sensation novel of inheritance, identity, sisters, and revenge in Victorian England.
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Armadale
Wilkie Collins's audacious sensation novel.
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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
A cursed Indian diamond vanishes from an English country house, and everyone becomes a suspect.
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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
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
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
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
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
Thomas Hardy's beloved pastoral drama.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Elizabeth Gaskell’s great domestic novel of family change, courtship, social nuance, and moral intelligence.
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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
A richly observed Victorian novel of industry, class, conscience, and slow-burning romance by Elizabeth Gaskell.
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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
Jane Austen's tantalising final work, left unfinished at her death.
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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
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
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
Charlotte Brontë's ambitious social novel.
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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
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
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 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
Charles Dickens's great comic satire on selfishness and greed.
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Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens's sweeping historical novel of riot and unrest.
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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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