Classics

Learn Spanish! A Christmas Carol: Dual Language Reader (English/Spanish)

von Charles Dickens, Luis Barthe Don & Bradley Jason

As opposed to memorizing Spanish phrases or forcing yourself to get through another dry Spanish grammar or verb manual, this Dual Language Reader ("DLR") will keep you excited to get to the next page! This compilation...

Great Expectations

von Charles Dickens

Introduction by George Bernard Shaw

Pip, a poor orphan being raised by a cruel sister, does not have much in the way of great expectations—until he is inexplicably elevated to wealth by an anonymous benefactor....

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

von Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is Robert Louis Stevenson's thriller allegory of a medical experiment gone wrong and dual personalities, one the essence of good, the other the essence of evil, fighting...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

von Linda Brent

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is the immensely powerful autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, who wrote under a pen name. A feminist work, she uses her experiences to state and restate her belief that though...

Black Beauty

von Anna Sewell

Black Beauty (1877) is the classic children's book by English author Anna Sewell. A cripple for most of her life, Sewell developed an early love of horses, and the story intended to teach her readers about treating...

Sense and Sensibility

von Jane Austen

When Mr. Dashwood dies, he leaves his second wife and her three daughters at the mercy of his son and heir, John. John's wife convinces him to turn his step-mother and half-sisters out, and they move to a country...

Pride and Prejudice

von Jane Austen

Mr and Mrs Bennet have five unmarried daughters. When the amiable Mr Bingly moves into the neighbourhood, Mrs Bennet therefore feels entirely sure that he is meant for one of her girls. Her eldest Miss Bennet...

The Call of the Wild and White Fang

von Jack London & John Seelye

Two classic stories-one indispensable volume.

Timeless tales of wolves, dogs, men, and the wild, The Call of the Wild and White Fang are two of the world's greatest adventure stories.

Romeo and Juliet

von William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

"The permanent popularity, now of mythic intensity, of Romeo and Juliet is more than justified," writes eminent scholar Harold Bloom, "since the play is the largest and most persuasive celebration of romantic...

Treasure Island

von Robert Louis Stevenson

Perhaps the greatest of all adventure stories for boys and girls, Treasure Island began, a brave boy who finds himself among pirates, and of the sinister pirate-cook Long John Silver holds children as entranced...

Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories

von Herman Melville

If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in...

Journey to the Center of the Earth

von Jules Verne & Kim Stanley Robinson

The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet’s...

The Outlaws of the Marsh

von Luo Guanzhong & Sidney Shapiro

The legendary account of 108 "Stars from Heaven" who, faced with a corrupt bureaucracy, flee to Liangshan Marsh, from a fortress there thwarting minions of the evil regime while continuing to serve the emperor....

The Bostonians

von Henry James

First published in 1886, The Bostonians is one of James' wittiest social satires. It begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, in search of a career. The book turns on the relationship between Ransom,...

Anna Karenina

von Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," writes Tolstoy in his literary masterpiece Anna Karenina. Commonly regarded as one of the greatest realist novels ever written,...

Lady Chatterley's Lover

von D. H. Lawrence

When her unemotional husband returns from war impotent and paralysed, Lady Chatterley finds herself in an unsatisfying marriage and starts a passionate affair with her husband's gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. Initially...

Romeo and Juliet

von William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare's early tragedies. The two young title characters fall madly in love, but are the children of feuding houses whose hatred for each other works to a devastating end. The...

Oliver Twist

von Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse. Eventually he ends up in the London street gang run by Fagin, who attempts to blacken the boy's pure soul in his service. Through...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

von L. Frank Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz chronicles the adventure of Dorothea in the land of Oz. A cyclone picks her up from her Kansas home, where she lives with her aunt and uncle, and deposits her in the fantastical land....

Othello

von William Shakespeare

Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant...