Don Quixote

By Miguel de Cervantes

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Don Quixote is a reader who has lost sight of the horizon between fiction and reality. Full to the brim of tales of adventure and romance, Quixote comes to believe that he himself is a knight straight ...

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Vanity Fair

By William Makepeace Thackeray

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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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Dead Souls

By Nikolai Gogol

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In provincial nineteenth century Russia, poor working people are considered the property of the landowners on whose farms they work. This human property—the serfs—are known as "souls& ...

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Who is Mark Twain?

By Mark Twain

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Never-before-published essays by American legend Mark Twain.

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The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle

By Tobias Smollett

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VOLUME I. CHAPTER I. An Account of Mr. Gamaliel Pickle--The Disposition of his Sister described--He yields to her Solicitations, and returns to the Country. In a certain county of England, bounded on ...

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The Devil's Dictionary

By Ambrose Bierce

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In the 1860s, Ambrose Bierce, a San Francisco humorist with a sharp wit for satire, purchased a copy of Webster’s Dictionary. Not content to let his agile mind sit idle even while consulting this re ...

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Northanger Abbey

By Jane Austen

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A vacation to the exotic location of Bath brings excitement and novelty to teenager Catherine Morland's life. Eager for a grand adventure to begin once she arrives, Catherine is delighted to receive t ...

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Gulliver's Travels

By Jonathan Swift

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The story of Lemuel Gulliver and his many extraordinary voyages at sea has delighted readers for over 200 years. After a devastating shipwreck on his first foray onto the ocean, Gulliver finds himself ...

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Utopia

By Thomas More

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Readers may find themselves wishing they could live on the island described in Sir Thomas More’s 1516 work Utopia. More describes this wondrous island as a philosophical and political meditation on ...

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