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The death of Henry Dashwood forces his daughters and their mother to give up their comfortable home and fashionable lifestyle. Stuck in a modest rural cottage, the eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and ...
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Inspired by Victor Hugo's fascination with the beautiful and ancient Cathedral of Notre Dame, The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a moving tale of innocence, love, and tragic misunderstanding. Quasimodo, t ...
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Captures, disguises, chases, and daring escapes, all set against a backdrop of war: this is the stirring adventure story you've been looking for
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Anne Shirley, the heroine of L.M. Montgomery's 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables, is a girl like no other. Growing up in an orphanage, Anne quickly learns the value of a powerful imagination. It comes i ...
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In Dostoevsky's The Idiot, Prince Myshkin is a mentally unstable young man, and one of the last of his royal bloodline. Suffering from epilepsy and unexplained spells of insanity, he is an outsider, l ...
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The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens's first novel, published in serial form in 1837. This is the story of the "Pickwick Club," a private society of eccentric gentlemen who feel themselve ...
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Becky Sharp is a keen navigator of the ranks of Victorian society. With no family fortune or pedigree to invite her into the finest circles, Becky relies on determination and her sly intelligence to p ...
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Humanity's worst fears come true in this grand science-fiction adventure from H.G. Wells. Through telescopes fixed on faraway planets, scientists begin noticing strange events occurring on the surface ...
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Lucy Snowe is seeking some much-needed stability and security when she takes a job as a teacher in the faraway city of Villette. What she does not realize is that she's in for a wild ride of mystery, ...
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A lonely young orphan struggling with a physical deformity, Philip Carey is sent to live with his cold and aloof aunt and uncle. His only joy in their home comes from reading. Great works of literatur ...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is Mark Twain's classic depiction of a happy-go-lucky boy on a voyage of growth and discovery. Set in pre-Civil war Missouri, this novel is the story of Tom and his best f ...
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A cup of tea and some fragrant cookies transport a man into the past. So begins one of the most famous literary epics ever written. His senses full of scents and flavors of his childhood, our narrator ...
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Mansfield Park is a witty social comedy, weighing predictable propriety against the consequences of carelessness. Young Fanny Price, born to a large and struggling family, is taken to live at Mansfiel ...
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Dr. Frankenstein's dark alchemy brings a monster to life one fateful day. His form is a hulking mass of dead body parts, his appearance wild and ghoulish. This is a nightmarish creature, frightening a ...
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The dramatic conclusion to the saga of d'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers—and the revelation of the mysterious man in the iron mask
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In 1922 the Jazz Age was at its height—night after night, the privileged class danced till dawn, fueled by money, alcohol, and a taste for fun. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned, ...
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Joseph Conrad weaves a startling tale of espionage, political unrest, and personal turmoil in his 1907 novel The Secret Agent. Set in 1886, it is the story of a man known as Verloc. Life is a humdrum ...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter is a tale of Puritanical America, a time and place when life was marked by harsh facts and firm beliefs, when people believed in the importance of c ...
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