Classic fiction (pre c 1945) books

Sons and Lovers, a story of working-class England, is D. H. Lawrence's third novel. It went through various drafts,...  Read More >>

South! tells one of the most thrilling tales of exploration and survival against the odds which has ever been written....  Read More >>

In a small Mormon community in southern Utah, Jane Withersteen, a young, unmarried Mormon woman faces growing pressure...  Read More >>

Scaramouche tells the tale of André-Louis Moreau, a young lawyer in Brittany. When his friend is killed by an unremorseful...  Read More >>

Sartor Resartus was a strange and new book when it was first published in 1833, and in many ways it remains a strange...  Read More >>

Shirley, published in 1849, was Charlotte Brontë's second novel after Jane Eyre. Published under her pseudonym of...  Read More >>

Born enslaved and lamed by his master, Epictetus studied Stoic philosophy while in bondage. Once freed, he survived...  Read More >>

In the Dauphiné area of France, soldiers have come to arrest some local aristos as part of the French Revolution's...  Read More >>

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral was the first book of poetry ever published by an African-American...  Read More >>

Surprisingly timeless and under the guise of ""Christian Mysticism,"" Underhill describes in 1914 what could rightly...  Read More >>

Resurrection, the last full-length novel written by Leo Tolstoy, was published in 1899 after ten years in the making....  Read More >>

Riceyman Steps, first published in 1923, is set in ""dingy and sordid"" Clerkenwell, in central London, where ""existence...  Read More >>

The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz's Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series'...  Read More >>

The sons of the Roland family, Pierre and Jean, return home in the lull between the completion of their studies...  Read More >>

Although known for her later experiments with style and structure, Virginia Woolf set out in her early novels to...  Read More >>

Published in 1818, Peacock's novella Nightmare Abbey is a gentle satire of the then-popular gothic movement in literature....  Read More >>

In the process of writing his memoirs, Arsène Lupin takes us back to his early twenties and his first love: Clarice...  Read More >>

Moonfleet is a small village near the sea in the south of England, where village legend tells of the notorious Colonel...  Read More >>

Published in 1919, Mr. Standfast is a thriller set in the latter half of the First World War, and the third of John...  Read More >>

Peter Kropotkin initially published the chapters of Mutual Aid as individual essays in the intellectual periodical...  Read More >>

My Brilliant Career is a classic Australian work published in 1901 by Stella Miles Franklin, with an introduction...  Read More >>

In 1919, at the height of the anti-leftist Palmer Raids conducted by the Wilson administration, the anarchist activist...  Read More >>

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was written in 1845, seven years after Douglass escaped slavery,...  Read More >>

In the midst of the French Revolution, Pierre, a young firebrand, convinces a group of rabble to rise up against...  Read More >>

Following the death of her father, Ann Whitefield becomes the ward of Jack Tanner and Roebuck Ramsden; Jack is a...  Read More >>