Classics

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a disturbing tale of a young man's uncanny ability to remain both young and beautiful while descending into a life of heartless debauchery....

Sixteenth-century Spanish gentleman Don Quixote, fed by his own delusional fantasies, takes to the road in search of chivalrous adventures....

Ponyboy can count on his brothers....

When the supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay civil....

Matilda is exceptional. But Matilda's parents think she's a nuisance, and at school she faces Miss Trunchbull, a terror of a headmistress....

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....

A lively comedy of manners, with a witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work....

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language....

With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and corruption, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld....

Here is the timeless story of Mary Poppins, the world's favorite nanny, and her magical adventures with the Banks family....

The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village....

Persuasion, Jane Austen's last novel, is a tale of love and marriage told with irony and insight....

Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door....

Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden's lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court....

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938....

>He was the father of the occult, the founder of astrology, the discoverer of alchemy. He was Hermes Trismegistus, and he possessed all divine knowledge....

Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of literature’s earliest works of science fiction. It vividly animates a fantastical subterranean world....

The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful but slowly going under....

Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel of the Cosmic Trilogy, considered to be C.S. Lewis' chief contribution to the science fiction genre....

Knowledge is power. That would be the motto of Lander University, had it not been snatched up and used to death by others long before the school was founded....