Classic fiction (pre c 1945) books

Candide is living a sheltered life and being indoctrinated by his mentor, Professor Pangloss. Voltaire describes...  Read More >>

Hard Times is set in the imaginary industrial town of Coketown, the soulless domain of the strict Gradgind and the...  Read More >>

Treasure Island follows the adventures of a cabin boy named Jim Hawkins on board the Hispaniola. Hawkins is in for...  Read More >>

Victor Frankenstein is consumed by his desire to discover the secrets of life. He constructs a man out of old body...  Read More >>

Wuthering Heights is Emily Bront 's only novel. When the novel was first released, it was considered controversial...  Read More >>

A sailor called Ishmael narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby...  Read More >>

In the 17th century Hugo Baskerville is killed by a vicious hellhound. Generations later, Sir Henry Baskerville...  Read More >>

Crime and Punishment follows Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student who formulates and executes a plan to...  Read More >>

Jane Eyre follows the emotions of its heroine and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of fictitious Thornfield...  Read More >>

A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris during the French Revolution. The novel depicts the plight of the...  Read More >>

The Complete Works of Jane Austen (in two volumes) includes all six novels, and Austen's shorter works; Lady Susan,...  Read More >>

On the day of his wedding, Edmond Dant s is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial....  Read More >>

Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass includes all 84 original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. This...  Read More >>

The Shipwreck Collection includes four novels: Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Treasure Island, and The Island...  Read More >>

Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary...  Read More >>

The story follows the adventures of Don Quixote, who decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring...  Read More >>

The Charles Dickens Collection includes three novels; A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and A Christmas...  Read More >>

The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles,...  Read More >>

The H. G. Wells Collection includes five novels; The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man,...  Read More >>

'The Family Shakspeare: in which nothing is added to the original text, but those words and expressions are omitted...  Read More >>

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some...  Read More >>

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a...  Read More >>

At the dawn of the 20th century, Jack London was considered one of the first literary writing pioneers in the rapidly...  Read More >>

Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious...  Read More >>

First published as a novel in 1911, J. M. Barrie's immortal story follows the adventures of the Darling children...  Read More >>