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Classic English Novels
From Elizabeth Bennet's wit to Heathcliff's obsession, these classic English novels shaped how the world tells stories. You will find Regency, Victorian, Gothic and modernist classics from the British Isles, including Irish giants like Joyce, Wilde and Stoker.
Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy spend an entire novel misjudging each other, and the reader enjoys every misstep. Our own Project Aldus edition of Austen's sharpest comedy of manners, newly typeset with an illustrated cover.
An orphaned governess falls for her employer at Thornfield, where something is locked away on the third floor. Our own Project Aldus edition of Brontë's novel about loving someone without losing yourself.
Heathcliff and Catherine's love turns into a revenge that poisons two families and two generations on the Yorkshire moors. Emily Brontë's only novel, in a clean modern edition with a painted cover.
Pip, a poor orphan, receives a fortune from an unknown benefactor and learns too late what it costs him. Dickens at his most personal, with Miss Havisham, the convict Magwitch and the cold Estella.
A young scientist gives life to a creature he cannot bear to look at, and pays for it with everything he loves. Our own Project Aldus edition of the novel that founded science fiction.
Letters, diaries and telegrams slowly assemble the figure of a Transylvanian count who has come to London to feed. Our own Project Aldus edition of the novel where the modern vampire was born.
Dorian stays young and beautiful while his portrait absorbs every cruelty he commits. Our own Project Aldus edition of Wilde's only novel, on vanity, influence and the face you eventually have to see.
Winston Smith works rewriting history for the Party and starts a forbidden diary in a world where Big Brother is always watching. The dystopia that gave us thoughtcrime, doublethink and Room 101.
The animals of Manor Farm overthrow their farmer and build a society of equals, until the pigs decide some are more equal than others. Our own Project Aldus edition of Orwell's fable about how revolutions betray themselves.
Dorothea Brooke marries for ideals and discovers a husband buried in dead scholarship, while a whole provincial town tangles its ambitions around her. Often called the greatest novel in the English language.
London and Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, and a man who finds redemption in the shadow of the guillotine. Dickens' historical novel, from its famous first line to its unforgettable last one.
Emma Woodhouse is rich, clever and convinced she knows what is best for everyone's heart except her own. Austen's comedy of a matchmaker who learns, slowly and hilariously, to see clearly.
A poor country girl is sent to claim kinship with a wealthy family, and the encounter shapes the rest of her life. Hardy's tragedy of Wessex, a fierce indictment of Victorian double standards.
A shipwrecked sailor spends 28 years on a desert island, building a life from nothing until he finds a footprint in the sand. One of the first English novels and the original survival story.
A respected London doctor finds a way to release the part of himself he has spent a lifetime caging. Our own Project Aldus edition of Stevenson's short, chilling study of the divided self.
Young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map and sails off with a crew that includes the charming, dangerous Long John Silver. The pirate adventure that invented the pirate story as we know it.
One ordinary day in Dublin, 16 June 1904, follows Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus and Molly Bloom through the streets and inside their heads. The complete text of the novel that changed what fiction could do.
Clarissa Dalloway spends a June day preparing a party, while a war veteran across London moves toward his own crisis. Woolf's stream of consciousness masterpiece, in a clean edition with a painted cover.
A family summer house on the Isle of Skye, a promised trip to the lighthouse, and ten years that change everything. Woolf's most personal novel about time, memory and loss.
Marlow travels up the Congo River in search of Kurtz, an ivory trader who has gone beyond all limits. Conrad's short, haunting novel about colonialism and the darkness inside civilized men.
Anne Elliot was persuaded to refuse the man she loved, and eight years later he walks back into her life. Austen's last completed novel, her most mature and tender love story.
Ebenezer Scrooge receives three ghosts on Christmas Eve and one last chance to change. The short novel that shaped how the world celebrates Christmas, perfect for a single evening.
Alice follows a White Rabbit down a hole into a world of mad tea parties, grinning cats and a queen who shouts for heads. Carroll's nonsense classic, in an illustrated edition.
Mole, Rat, Badger and the reckless Mr. Toad share adventures along an English riverbank. A gentle classic about friendship and home, loved by children and adults alike.
Martian cylinders land in the English countryside and unleash tripod war machines that humanity cannot stop. Wells' 1898 invasion novel, the blueprint for every alien attack story since.
A tyrant, a cursed prophecy and a young bride fleeing through underground passages: the 1764 novel that invented Gothic fiction. Our own Project Aldus edition, short enough for a single sitting.
Captain Ahab, Huck Finn and Jay Gatsby all chase something they can never quite reach. These classic novels from the United States and Canada follow that restless spirit from the whaling era to the Jazz Age.
Captain Ahab hunts the white whale that took his leg, and drags his whole crew into his obsession. Melville's epic of the sea, now in a clean, fully searchable edition instead of a scanned copy.
Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties every weekend for a woman who never comes, while Nick Carraway watches from next door. Our own Project Aldus edition of the novel that defined the Jazz Age.
Huck runs away from his drunken father and floats down the Mississippi on a raft with Jim, an enslaved man escaping to freedom. The novel Hemingway said all modern American literature comes from.
In Puritan Boston, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet A for adultery and refuses to name her lover. Hawthorne's dark masterpiece on sin, shame and hypocrisy.
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March grow up during the Civil War, each chasing a different dream. Alcott's warm novel about sisterhood, ambition and growing up, led by the unforgettable Jo.
Tom Sawyer whitewashes fences, attends his own funeral and witnesses a murder in a Mississippi river town. Twain's playful classic of boyhood mischief and the companion to Huckleberry Finn.
Newland Archer is engaged to the perfect May Welland when her unconventional cousin, Countess Olenska, returns to New York. The Pulitzer winning novel about desire trapped inside high society's rules.
Lily Bart is beautiful, clever and running out of time to marry well in Gilded Age New York. Wharton's sharp, heartbreaking portrait of a woman crushed by the society that made her.
Young Henry Fleming enlists dreaming of glory and runs from his first battle in the American Civil War. Crane's short, vivid novel about fear and courage seen from inside one soldier's head.
Buck, a pampered house dog, is stolen and sold as a sled dog in the Klondike Gold Rush, where the wild slowly reclaims him. London's short, gripping tale of survival.
A wolf dog born in the frozen Yukon learns the law of club and fang before finding a human he can trust. London's mirror image of The Call of the Wild, from wild to tame.
A young governess takes charge of two children in an isolated country house and begins to see figures that may or may not be there. Our own Project Aldus edition of the most ambiguous ghost story ever written.
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert ask for an orphan boy to help on the farm and get Anne, a red haired girl who never stops talking. The beloved Canadian classic set on Prince Edward Island.
Raskolnikov's guilt and Anna Karenina's choices still feel uncomfortably close. These classic Russian novels come from the Golden Age of Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, all in English translation.
Raskolnikov, a poor former student in St. Petersburg, kills a pawnbroker to prove he is above morality, and his conscience starts hunting him. Dostoevsky's psychological thriller in Constance Garnett's classic translation.
Anna leaves a cold marriage for the dashing Count Vronsky and Russian society never forgives her. Tolstoy's great novel of love, family and faith, in Constance Garnett's translation.
Five aristocratic families live through Napoleon's invasion of Russia, from glittering ballrooms to the burning of Moscow. Tolstoy's epic, the novel against which all others are measured.
Three brothers, a debauched father and a murder that forces each of them to face what he believes about God and freedom. Dostoevsky's final masterpiece, in Constance Garnett's translation.
Prince Myshkin, a man of absolute goodness, returns to St. Petersburg and is torn between two women in a society that sees him as a fool. Dostoevsky's attempt to portray a truly good man.
A lonely dreamer meets a young woman over four summer nights in St. Petersburg and lets himself hope. Our own Project Aldus edition of Dostoevsky's tender, bittersweet short novel.
Chichikov travels the Russian provinces buying up dead serfs who still count on paper, a scheme as absurd as the landowners he meets. Gogol's comic masterpiece and a sharp satire of Russian society.
Bazarov, a young nihilist who believes in nothing, comes home with his friend and clashes with the older generation. Turgenev's novel that put the word nihilism into circulation.
Revenge in Monte Cristo, a restless wife in Madame Bovary, justice and mercy in Les Misérables. These classic French novels turned adventure and realism into an art form, all in English translation.
Edmond Dantès is betrayed on his wedding day and buried alive in an island fortress for fourteen years. Dumas' ultimate revenge story, as he escapes, finds a treasure and returns under a new name.
Jean Valjean, an ex convict who stole a loaf of bread, is pursued for decades by the relentless Inspector Javert. Victor Hugo's complete epic of justice and mercy, in Isabel Hapgood's translation.
Young d'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's Musketeers and becomes inseparable from Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Dumas' swashbuckling adventure of honor, intrigue and friendship, in William Robson's translation.
Emma Bovary, married to a dull country doctor, chases the passion she read about in novels and pays for it dearly. Flaubert's realist masterpiece, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling's translation.
Quasimodo, the deaf bell ringer of Notre-Dame, loves the dancer Esmeralda in a medieval Paris that condemns them both. Victor Hugo's gothic novel, in Isabel Hapgood's translation.
Étienne Lantier arrives at a coal mining town in northern France and leads the miners into a desperate strike. Zola's powerful novel of hunger and revolt, in Havelock Ellis' translation.
A masked genius haunts the cellars of the Paris Opera and falls for a young soprano. Our own Project Aldus edition of Leroux's gothic romance, told as a journalistic investigation.
A pilot stranded in the Sahara meets a little prince who has traveled from a tiny asteroid. A short, poetic fable about friendship, love and what grown-ups forget.
Don Quixote arguably invented the modern novel, and Kafka reinvented it three centuries later. This section gathers great classics from Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland and Central Europe.
An aging gentleman reads so many chivalry books that he becomes a knight errant and sets out with his squire Sancho Panza. The novel that arguably started the modern novel, complete in a clean modern edition.
Gregor Samsa wakes one morning transformed into a giant insect, and his family's first worry is his job. Our own Project Aldus edition of Kafka's most famous story about alienation.
Werther, a sensitive young artist, falls hopelessly in love with Lotte, who is engaged to another man. Goethe's novel in letters, the book that made Romanticism a European obsession.
Siddhartha leaves his Brahmin family in search of enlightenment and tries every path, from asceticism to wealth and love. Hesse's short, luminous novel of a spiritual journey in ancient India.
Renzo and Lucia, two young villagers, are kept apart by a local tyrant amid war, famine and plague in 17th century Lombardy. The great Italian novel, in English translation.
A Roman patrician falls in love with a young Christian woman in the days of Nero, as the city burns and persecution begins. The Nobel winning Polish classic, in Jeremiah Curtin's translation.
Classic novels last because their characters still feel real, from Charles Dickens's orphans to Victor Hugo's outcasts. Start with one book and see where it takes you.
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