The Scarlet Pimpernel

Four soldiers, one queen's secret, and a cardinal who wants them dead. Dumas turned court intrigue into pure momentum, and this complete unabridged edition keeps every duel and every betrayal intact.

Alexandre Dumas

A sailor is framed, buried alive in a sea fortress, and comes back rich, unrecognizable and patient. The greatest revenge story ever written, complete and unabridged.

Alexandre Dumas

An old man reads too many chivalry books and rides out to fix a world that stopped needing fixing. Both parts complete, with the windmills, the inns and the long argument with Sancho.

Miguel de Cervantes

Four voyages to places that do not exist, each one a mirror held up to the reader's own country. Swift wrote a travel book that turns into a demolition of politics, science and human vanity.

Jonathan Swift

Tournaments, a besieged castle, Robin Hood in the background and a knight back from the Crusades to a country that has moved on without him. The novel that invented historical fiction as we know it.

Walter Scott