The Prince and the Pauper

Athos, Porthos, Aramis and d Artagnan turn one motto into a whole way of living. The friendship is the engine of every duel, every rescue and every betrayal in the book.

Alexandre Dumas

The four musketeers meet again after two decades apart, older and now on opposite sides. A rare sequel about what survives when a friendship is tested by time and politics.

Alexandre Dumas

A knight who believes too much and a squire who believes nothing ride together anyway. The friendship between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza is the reason the joke turns into something moving.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Twelve cases narrated by the one person Holmes actually trusts. Watson is not a sidekick here, he is the friend who makes the detective legible to the rest of us.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Huck and Jim head down the Mississippi on a raft and build a friendship that the world around them refuses to allow. Twain makes that bond the moral center of the whole novel.

Mark Twain