Best Classics Books
Best Free Classics Books of 2024
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The Time Machine Book Reviews
H.G. WellsThe Time Machine cemented author H.G. Wells as the father of modern science fiction. In it, the Time Traveller embarks on a staggering journey 800,000 years into the future, where ...
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Little House on the Prairie Book Reviews
Laura Ingalls WilderThe third of the Little House books series. The novel is about the months the Ingalls spent on the Kansas prairie around the town of Independence. Laura describes how her father bu...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews
Mark TwainThe irrepressible Tom Sawyer drives his Aunt Polly to distraction; she can’t decide whether to cry or laugh at his antics. He fights, falls in love, and finds adventure with two of...
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Siddhartha Book Reviews
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha during a period in his life in which he suffered what he described as a “sickness with life.” He claimed to be unable to complete the book because he...
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At the Mountains of Madness Book Reviews
H. P. Lovecraft<b>"A chilling tale of classic horror by H. P. Lovecraft..."</b> An expedition to the Antarctic meets with a gruesome fate, and survivor...
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The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 1 Book Reviews
1265-1321 Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, h...
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An Ideal Husband Book Reviews
Oscar WildeAn Apple Books Classic edition. Rumor has it that upon passing through customs, Oscar Wilde once proclaimed, “I have nothing to declare but my genius.” Wilde’s play An Ideal Husban...
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Jude the Obscure Book Reviews
Thomas HardyJude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his on...
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1984 Book Reviews
George OrwellIn George Orwell's iconic and prophetic masterpiece, "1984," a haunting vision of a dystopian future unfolds. Set in a world dominated by the allseeing eye of Big Br...
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Wuthering Heights Book Reviews
Emily BrontëThe Novel Wuthering Heights tears off, roughly enough, the tinsel from passion. We have Heathcliff, harsh, pitiless, wolfish, without a spark of kindness for the woman whose passio...
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The Prophet Book Reviews
Khalil GibranThe Prophet is LebaneseAmerican writer Khalil Gibran’s best known work. In the book, the prophet Almustafa is returning home after 12 years in the fictional city of Orphalese. Befo...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews
Mark TwainIn this classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain, pseudonym of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, young Tom Sawyer and his friend Huck Finn find adventure in the town of St. Petersb...
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The Turn of the Screw Book Reviews
Henry JamesIn this bloodcurdling story, that imagination weaves the lives of two children, a governess in love with her employer, and a sprawling country house into a flawless story, still un...
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Candide Book Reviews
VoltaireCandide is the picaresque tale of the titular character’s fantastical journey from an insular, idealized life in a picturesque castle through the difficulties and evils of the real...
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The Gambler Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky...
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The Scarlet Letter Book Reviews
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter is generally considered to be Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece. Set in 17th century Boston, it follows the plight of Hester Prynne, a young woman who bears a ch...
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Dracula Book Reviews
Bram StokerDracula is one of the most famous publicdomain horror novels in existence, responsible not just for introducing the eponymous Count Dracula, but for introducing many of the common ...
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My Brilliant Career Book Reviews
Miles FranklinAn Apple Books Classic edition. This Australian classic explores what happens when a young woman’s professional ambitionsto build a “brilliant career” as a writercollide with cultu...
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Wuthering Heights Book Reviews
Emily BronteWuthering Heights is a moody 19thcentury triumph, lauded for its dark imagery, austere setting, and depiction of fraught romance. Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte’s account of the...
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The Idiot Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoyevskyPrince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly rea...
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The Getting of Wisdom Book Reviews
Henry Handel RichardsonAn Apple Books Classic edition. Writing as Henry Handel Richardson, Ethel Richardson drew on her personal experience to tell the story of her fictional heroine, Laura Rambotham. At...
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Robbery Under Arms Book Reviews
Rolf BoldrewoodAn Apple Books Classic edition. Before there were Westerns, there was Robbery Under Arms , a novel that captures the legends of bushrangersAustralia’s outback outlaws. From the ver...
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Selections from Poe Book Reviews
Edgar Allan Poe & J. Montgomery GambrillIn 1907, editor J. Montgomery Gambrill published this collection of poems and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, including “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
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A Christmas Carol Book Reviews
Charles DickensCelebrate the spirit of the season with this complimentary edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol –the perfect companion for a cozy night by the fire. Includes an exclusive ...
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Black Beauty Book Reviews
Anna SewellThe bestselling novel Black Beauty by Anna Sewell was published in 1877. The story is a first person narrative told from the perspective of the horse Black Beauty. This unique narr...
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Persuasion Book Reviews
Jane AustenPersuasion was published in 1817, six months after Jane Austen’s death, and is the last novel she completed in full. The novel tells the story of Anne Elliot, now in her late 20s, ...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Book Reviews
Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic, a book that has inspired troves of writers in its wake, and that has sparked generations of discussion and debate. It is a no...
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Rebecca Book Reviews
Daphne du MaurierThe classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer. Last ...
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House of the Seven Gables Book Reviews
Nathaniel HawthorneThe curse of Mathew Maule descends on seven generations of the inhabitants of an old New England house.
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The Invisible Man Book Reviews
H.G. WellsAn Apple Books Classic edition. “Aloneit is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.” What would you do if you were became ...
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The Iliad of Homer Book Reviews
HomerThe Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Troja...
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The Odyssey Book Reviews
HomerThe Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes th...
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A Tale of Two Cities Book Reviews
Charles DickensThe novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by th...
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The Grapes of Wrath Book Reviews
John Steinbeck"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck is a powerful and evocative novel that captures the struggles of the Joad family, displaced by the Dust Bowl and economic hardship...
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Brave New World Book Reviews
Aldous HuxleyBrave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environment...
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Such Is Life Book Reviews
Joseph FurphyAn Apple Books Classic edition. Set in the Australian outback in the 19th century, Such Is Life is the fictional diary of Tom Collins, a bull driver with a penchant for philosophic...
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The Count of Monte Cristo Book Reviews
Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de MonteCristo ) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas ( père ) completed in 1844. It is one of the author'...
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Notes from Underground Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from Underground is a fictional collection of memoirs written by a civil servant living alone in St. Petersburg. The man is never named and is generally referred to as the Un...
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The Sun Also Rises Book Reviews
Ernest HemingwayA poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the postWorld War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Bret...
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The Old Curiosity Shop Book Reviews
Charles DickensThe sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to fo...
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The Brothers Karamazov Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoyevskyAs Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will o...
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250 Greatest Books Collection Book Reviews
Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Brontë, William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Emily Bronte, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, A. A. Milne, Alexandre Dumas, Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anna Sewell, Hermann Hesse, Miguel de Cervantes, Herman Melville, Bram Stoker, Sylvia Plath, Lyman Frank Baum, Jack London, Dante Alighieri, Joseph Conrad, Jonathan Swift, Niccolò Machiavelli, H.G. Wells, Franz Kafka, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Jules Verne, J.M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Theodore Dreiser, Nikolai Gogol, Émile Zola, Wilkie Collins, W. Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Daniel Defoe, E. M. Forster, Edith Wharton, Henry Fielding, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Homer, Voltaire, Johanna Spyri, Ivan Turgenev, Samuel Richardson, Honoré de Balzac & William FaulknerEmbark on a literary journey through the ages with the 250 Greatest Books Collection a meticulously curated anthology that brings together an exquisite blend of timeless classics a...
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Oliver Twist Book Reviews
Charles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's bestknown fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest nove...
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The Plague Book Reviews
Albert Camus"The Plague" by Albert Camus is a thoughtprovoking novel that unfolds in the fictional town of Oran, Algeria, gripped by an inexplicable epidemic. As the citizens grapple...
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Of Mice and Men Book Reviews
John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men is a classic novella written by John Steinbeck. First published in 1937, it narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch ...
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The Dunwich Horror Book Reviews
H. P. LovecraftThe village of Dunwich holds a terrible secret. Rumors of black magic and devil worship hover over the town like a sinister shroud. Whispered legends recall unholy bonfires and bla...
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The Brothers Karamazov Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoevskyDmitri Karamazov and his father Fyodor are at war over both Dmitri’s inheritance and the affections of the beautiful Grushenka. Into this feud arrive the middle brother Ivan, recen...
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A Study in Scarlet Book Reviews
Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet was the careerstarting, first Sherlock Holmes story published by Arthur Conan Doyle. Set in 19thcentury London, it follows Dr. John Watson, a war veteran, and th...
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Dracula Book Reviews
Bram StokerDracula is a Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, considered to be one of the most enduring and skillful examples of the modern vampire genre. It tells the story of Count Dracula, a...
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The Bell Jar Book Reviews
Sylvia Plath"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America, the novel follows Esther Greenwood, a talented an...
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Wuthering Heights Book Reviews
Emily BrontëAn Apple Books Classic edition. If you’ve only ever seen Wuthering Heights on screen, you may have an image of Catherine and Heathcliff as the ultimate starcrossed lovers. But that...
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Brave New World Book Reviews
Aldous HuxleyBrave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, first written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically...
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Discourses Book Reviews
EpictetusRaised a slave in Nero’s court, Epictetus would become one of the most influential philosophers in the Stoic tradition. While exiled in Greece by an emperor who considered philosop...
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Death on the Nile Book Reviews
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie's most daring travel mystery. The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the he...
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David Copperfield Book Reviews
Charles DickensThe novel traces the life of David Copperfield from the time of his birth to his mature manhood, when he is married and familiar with the vicissitudes of life. His early years are ...
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The Count of Monte Cristo Book Reviews
Alexandre DumasAn Apple Books Classic edition. Alexandre Dumas’ classic paints a portrait of Edmond Dantès, a dark and calculating man who is willing to wait years to exact his perfect plan for r...
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Joan of Arc Book Reviews
Lucy Foster MadisonJoan of Arc for young adults is a classic retelling of the Maid of Orleans heroism during the Fifteenth Century. Illustrated by the worldrenown Frank Schoonover, the essential char...
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Poor Folk Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoyevskyThis novel brought its 24yearold author critical and public acclaim nearly overnight. Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg's sl...
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Great Expectations Book Reviews
Charles DickensAn Apple Books Classic edition. Charles Dickens’ classic explores potent themes like good versus evil, crime, repentance, love and betrayal. At the center of the story is Pip, an i...
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The Wind in the Willows Book Reviews
Kenneth GrahameThis amazing novel focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camarader...
Best Paid Classics Books of 2024
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The Time Machine Book Reviews
H.G. WellsThe Time Machine cemented author H.G. Wells as the father of modern science fiction. In it, the Time Traveller embarks on a staggering journey 800,000 years into the future, where ...
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Little House on the Prairie Book Reviews
Laura Ingalls WilderThe third of the Little House books series. The novel is about the months the Ingalls spent on the Kansas prairie around the town of Independence. Laura describes how her father bu...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews
Mark TwainThe irrepressible Tom Sawyer drives his Aunt Polly to distraction; she can’t decide whether to cry or laugh at his antics. He fights, falls in love, and finds adventure with two of...
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Siddhartha Book Reviews
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha during a period in his life in which he suffered what he described as a “sickness with life.” He claimed to be unable to complete the book because he...
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At the Mountains of Madness Book Reviews
H. P. Lovecraft<b>"A chilling tale of classic horror by H. P. Lovecraft..."</b> An expedition to the Antarctic meets with a gruesome fate, and survivor...
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The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 1 Book Reviews
1265-1321 Dante AlighieriThe Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, h...
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An Ideal Husband Book Reviews
Oscar WildeAn Apple Books Classic edition. Rumor has it that upon passing through customs, Oscar Wilde once proclaimed, “I have nothing to declare but my genius.” Wilde’s play An Ideal Husban...
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Jude the Obscure Book Reviews
Thomas HardyJude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his on...
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1984 Book Reviews
George OrwellIn George Orwell's iconic and prophetic masterpiece, "1984," a haunting vision of a dystopian future unfolds. Set in a world dominated by the allseeing eye of Big Br...
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Wuthering Heights Book Reviews
Emily BrontëThe Novel Wuthering Heights tears off, roughly enough, the tinsel from passion. We have Heathcliff, harsh, pitiless, wolfish, without a spark of kindness for the woman whose passio...
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The Prophet Book Reviews
Khalil GibranThe Prophet is LebaneseAmerican writer Khalil Gibran’s best known work. In the book, the prophet Almustafa is returning home after 12 years in the fictional city of Orphalese. Befo...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews
Mark TwainIn this classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain, pseudonym of American writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, young Tom Sawyer and his friend Huck Finn find adventure in the town of St. Petersb...
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The Turn of the Screw Book Reviews
Henry JamesIn this bloodcurdling story, that imagination weaves the lives of two children, a governess in love with her employer, and a sprawling country house into a flawless story, still un...
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Candide Book Reviews
VoltaireCandide is the picaresque tale of the titular character’s fantastical journey from an insular, idealized life in a picturesque castle through the difficulties and evils of the real...
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The Gambler Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoyevskyThe Gambler is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky about a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian general. The novella reflects Dostoyevsky...
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The Scarlet Letter Book Reviews
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter is generally considered to be Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece. Set in 17th century Boston, it follows the plight of Hester Prynne, a young woman who bears a ch...
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Dracula Book Reviews
Bram StokerDracula is one of the most famous publicdomain horror novels in existence, responsible not just for introducing the eponymous Count Dracula, but for introducing many of the common ...
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My Brilliant Career Book Reviews
Miles FranklinAn Apple Books Classic edition. This Australian classic explores what happens when a young woman’s professional ambitionsto build a “brilliant career” as a writercollide with cultu...
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Wuthering Heights Book Reviews
Emily BronteWuthering Heights is a moody 19thcentury triumph, lauded for its dark imagery, austere setting, and depiction of fraught romance. Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte’s account of the...
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The Idiot Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoyevskyPrince Myshkin returns to Russia from an asylum in Switzerland. As he becomes embroiled in the frantic amatory and financial intrigues which centre around a cast of brilliantly rea...
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The Getting of Wisdom Book Reviews
Henry Handel RichardsonAn Apple Books Classic edition. Writing as Henry Handel Richardson, Ethel Richardson drew on her personal experience to tell the story of her fictional heroine, Laura Rambotham. At...
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Robbery Under Arms Book Reviews
Rolf BoldrewoodAn Apple Books Classic edition. Before there were Westerns, there was Robbery Under Arms , a novel that captures the legends of bushrangersAustralia’s outback outlaws. From the ver...
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Selections from Poe Book Reviews
Edgar Allan Poe & J. Montgomery GambrillIn 1907, editor J. Montgomery Gambrill published this collection of poems and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, including “The Raven” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
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A Christmas Carol Book Reviews
Charles DickensCelebrate the spirit of the season with this complimentary edition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol –the perfect companion for a cozy night by the fire. Includes an exclusive ...
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Black Beauty Book Reviews
Anna SewellThe bestselling novel Black Beauty by Anna Sewell was published in 1877. The story is a first person narrative told from the perspective of the horse Black Beauty. This unique narr...
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Persuasion Book Reviews
Jane AustenPersuasion was published in 1817, six months after Jane Austen’s death, and is the last novel she completed in full. The novel tells the story of Anne Elliot, now in her late 20s, ...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Book Reviews
Mark TwainAdventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic, a book that has inspired troves of writers in its wake, and that has sparked generations of discussion and debate. It is a no...
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Rebecca Book Reviews
Daphne du MaurierThe classic Gothic suspense novel by Daphne du Maurier winner of the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century is now a Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer. Last ...
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House of the Seven Gables Book Reviews
Nathaniel HawthorneThe curse of Mathew Maule descends on seven generations of the inhabitants of an old New England house.
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The Invisible Man Book Reviews
H.G. WellsAn Apple Books Classic edition. “Aloneit is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.” What would you do if you were became ...
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The Iliad of Homer Book Reviews
HomerThe Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Troja...
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The Odyssey Book Reviews
HomerThe Odyssey is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer’s epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes th...
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A Tale of Two Cities Book Reviews
Charles DickensThe novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by th...
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The Grapes of Wrath Book Reviews
John Steinbeck"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck is a powerful and evocative novel that captures the struggles of the Joad family, displaced by the Dust Bowl and economic hardship...
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Brave New World Book Reviews
Aldous HuxleyBrave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environment...
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Such Is Life Book Reviews
Joseph FurphyAn Apple Books Classic edition. Set in the Australian outback in the 19th century, Such Is Life is the fictional diary of Tom Collins, a bull driver with a penchant for philosophic...
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The Count of Monte Cristo Book Reviews
Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de MonteCristo ) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas ( père ) completed in 1844. It is one of the author'...
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Notes from Underground Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoevskyNotes from Underground is a fictional collection of memoirs written by a civil servant living alone in St. Petersburg. The man is never named and is generally referred to as the Un...
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The Sun Also Rises Book Reviews
Ernest HemingwayA poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the postWorld War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway’s most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Bret...
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The Old Curiosity Shop Book Reviews
Charles DickensThe sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to fo...
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The Brothers Karamazov Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoyevskyAs Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will o...
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250 Greatest Books Collection Book Reviews
Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Brontë, William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Emily Bronte, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Dickens, L.M. Montgomery, A. A. Milne, Alexandre Dumas, Leo Tolstoy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anna Sewell, Hermann Hesse, Miguel de Cervantes, Herman Melville, Bram Stoker, Sylvia Plath, Lyman Frank Baum, Jack London, Dante Alighieri, Joseph Conrad, Jonathan Swift, Niccolò Machiavelli, H.G. Wells, Franz Kafka, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Jules Verne, J.M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Gustave Flaubert, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Theodore Dreiser, Nikolai Gogol, Émile Zola, Wilkie Collins, W. Somerset Maugham, Rudyard Kipling, Daniel Defoe, E. M. Forster, Edith Wharton, Henry Fielding, Robert Louis Stevenson, D. H. Lawrence, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Homer, Voltaire, Johanna Spyri, Ivan Turgenev, Samuel Richardson, Honoré de Balzac & William FaulknerEmbark on a literary journey through the ages with the 250 Greatest Books Collection a meticulously curated anthology that brings together an exquisite blend of timeless classics a...
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Oliver Twist Book Reviews
Charles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's bestknown fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest nove...
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The Plague Book Reviews
Albert Camus"The Plague" by Albert Camus is a thoughtprovoking novel that unfolds in the fictional town of Oran, Algeria, gripped by an inexplicable epidemic. As the citizens grapple...
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Of Mice and Men Book Reviews
John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men is a classic novella written by John Steinbeck. First published in 1937, it narrates the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch ...
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The Dunwich Horror Book Reviews
H. P. LovecraftThe village of Dunwich holds a terrible secret. Rumors of black magic and devil worship hover over the town like a sinister shroud. Whispered legends recall unholy bonfires and bla...
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The Brothers Karamazov Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoevskyDmitri Karamazov and his father Fyodor are at war over both Dmitri’s inheritance and the affections of the beautiful Grushenka. Into this feud arrive the middle brother Ivan, recen...
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A Study in Scarlet Book Reviews
Arthur Conan DoyleA Study in Scarlet was the careerstarting, first Sherlock Holmes story published by Arthur Conan Doyle. Set in 19thcentury London, it follows Dr. John Watson, a war veteran, and th...
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Dracula Book Reviews
Bram StokerDracula is a Gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, considered to be one of the most enduring and skillful examples of the modern vampire genre. It tells the story of Count Dracula, a...
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The Bell Jar Book Reviews
Sylvia Plath"The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is a haunting exploration of the human psyche. Set against the backdrop of 1950s America, the novel follows Esther Greenwood, a talented an...
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Wuthering Heights Book Reviews
Emily BrontëAn Apple Books Classic edition. If you’ve only ever seen Wuthering Heights on screen, you may have an image of Catherine and Heathcliff as the ultimate starcrossed lovers. But that...
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Brave New World Book Reviews
Aldous HuxleyBrave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, first written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically...
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Discourses Book Reviews
EpictetusRaised a slave in Nero’s court, Epictetus would become one of the most influential philosophers in the Stoic tradition. While exiled in Greece by an emperor who considered philosop...
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Death on the Nile Book Reviews
Agatha ChristieAgatha Christie's most daring travel mystery. The tranquility of a lovely cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the he...
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David Copperfield Book Reviews
Charles DickensThe novel traces the life of David Copperfield from the time of his birth to his mature manhood, when he is married and familiar with the vicissitudes of life. His early years are ...
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The Count of Monte Cristo Book Reviews
Alexandre DumasAn Apple Books Classic edition. Alexandre Dumas’ classic paints a portrait of Edmond Dantès, a dark and calculating man who is willing to wait years to exact his perfect plan for r...
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Joan of Arc Book Reviews
Lucy Foster MadisonJoan of Arc for young adults is a classic retelling of the Maid of Orleans heroism during the Fifteenth Century. Illustrated by the worldrenown Frank Schoonover, the essential char...
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Poor Folk Book Reviews
Fyodor DostoyevskyThis novel brought its 24yearold author critical and public acclaim nearly overnight. Written in the form of letters, it recounts a blossoming romance amid St. Petersburg's sl...
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Great Expectations Book Reviews
Charles DickensAn Apple Books Classic edition. Charles Dickens’ classic explores potent themes like good versus evil, crime, repentance, love and betrayal. At the center of the story is Pip, an i...
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The Wind in the Willows Book Reviews
Kenneth GrahameThis amazing novel focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camarader...