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  • The Time Machine reviews

    The Time Machine Book Reviews

    H.G. Wells

    The 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 ...

  • Little House on the Prairie reviews

    Little House on the Prairie Book Reviews

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    The 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...

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer reviews

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews

    Mark Twain

    The 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...

  • Siddhartha reviews

    Siddhartha Book Reviews

    Hermann Hesse

    Hermann 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...

  • At the Mountains of Madness reviews

    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...

  • The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 1 reviews

    The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 1 Book Reviews

    1265-1321 Dante Alighieri

    The 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...

  • An Ideal Husband reviews

    An Ideal Husband Book Reviews

    Oscar Wilde

    An 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...

  • Jude the Obscure reviews

    Jude the Obscure Book Reviews

    Thomas Hardy

    Jude 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...

  • 1984 reviews

    1984 Book Reviews

    George Orwell

    In 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...

  • Wuthering Heights reviews

    Wuthering Heights Book Reviews

    Emily Brontë

    The 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...

  • The Prophet reviews

    The Prophet Book Reviews

    Khalil Gibran

    The 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...

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer reviews

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews

    Mark Twain

    In 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...

  • The Turn of the Screw reviews

    The Turn of the Screw Book Reviews

    Henry James

    In 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...

  • Candide reviews

    Candide Book Reviews

    Voltaire

    Candide 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...

  • The Gambler reviews

    The Gambler Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    The 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&#...

  • The Scarlet Letter reviews

    The Scarlet Letter Book Reviews

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The 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...

  • Dracula reviews

    Dracula Book Reviews

    Bram Stoker

    Dracula 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 ...

  • My Brilliant Career reviews

    My Brilliant Career Book Reviews

    Miles Franklin

    An 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...

  • Wuthering Heights reviews

    Wuthering Heights Book Reviews

    Emily Bronte

    Wuthering 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...

  • The Idiot reviews

    The Idiot Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Prince 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...

  • The Getting of Wisdom reviews

    The Getting of Wisdom Book Reviews

    Henry Handel Richardson

    An 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...

  • Robbery Under Arms reviews

    Robbery Under Arms Book Reviews

    Rolf Boldrewood

    An 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...

  • Selections from Poe reviews

    Selections from Poe Book Reviews

    Edgar Allan Poe & J. Montgomery Gambrill

    In 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.”

  • A Christmas Carol reviews

    A Christmas Carol Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    Celebrate 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 ...

  • Black Beauty reviews

    Black Beauty Book Reviews

    Anna Sewell

    The 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...

  • Persuasion reviews

    Persuasion Book Reviews

    Jane Austen

    Persuasion 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, ...

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reviews

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Book Reviews

    Mark Twain

    Adventures 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...

  • Rebecca reviews

    Rebecca Book Reviews

    Daphne du Maurier

    The 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 ...

  • House of the Seven Gables reviews

    House of the Seven Gables Book Reviews

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The curse of Mathew Maule descends on seven generations of the inhabitants of an old New England house.

  • The Invisible Man reviews

    The Invisible Man Book Reviews

    H.G. Wells

    An 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 ...

  • The Iliad of Homer reviews

    The Iliad of Homer Book Reviews

    Homer

    The 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...

  • The Odyssey reviews

    The Odyssey Book Reviews

    Homer

    The 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...

  • A Tale of Two Cities reviews

    A Tale of Two Cities Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    The 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...

  • The Grapes of Wrath reviews

    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...

  • Brave New World reviews

    Brave New World Book Reviews

    Aldous Huxley

    Brave 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...

  • Such Is Life reviews

    Such Is Life Book Reviews

    Joseph Furphy

    An 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...

  • The Count of Monte Cristo reviews

    The Count of Monte Cristo Book Reviews

    Alexandre Dumas

    The 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'...

  • Notes from Underground reviews

    Notes from Underground Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Notes 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...

  • The Sun Also Rises reviews

    The Sun Also Rises Book Reviews

    Ernest Hemingway

    A 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...

  • The Old Curiosity Shop reviews

    The Old Curiosity Shop Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    The 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...

  • The Brothers Karamazov reviews

    The Brothers Karamazov Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    As 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...

  • 250 Greatest Books Collection reviews

    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 Faulkner

    Embark 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...

  • Oliver Twist reviews

    Oliver Twist Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    Charles 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...

  • The Plague reviews

    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...

  • Of Mice and Men reviews

    Of Mice and Men Book Reviews

    John Steinbeck

    Of 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 ...

  • The Dunwich Horror reviews

    The Dunwich Horror Book Reviews

    H. P. Lovecraft

    The 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...

  • The Brothers Karamazov reviews

    The Brothers Karamazov Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Dmitri 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...

  • A Study in Scarlet reviews

    A Study in Scarlet Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    A 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...

  • Dracula reviews

    Dracula Book Reviews

    Bram Stoker

    Dracula 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...

  • The Bell Jar reviews

    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...

  • Wuthering Heights reviews

    Wuthering Heights Book Reviews

    Emily Brontë

    An 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...

  • Brave New World reviews

    Brave New World Book Reviews

    Aldous Huxley

    Brave 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...

  • Discourses reviews

    Discourses Book Reviews

    Epictetus

    Raised 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...

  • Death on the Nile reviews

    Death on the Nile Book Reviews

    Agatha Christie

    Agatha 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...

  • David Copperfield reviews

    David Copperfield Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    The 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 ...

  • The Count of Monte Cristo reviews

    The Count of Monte Cristo Book Reviews

    Alexandre Dumas

    An 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...

  • Joan of Arc reviews

    Joan of Arc Book Reviews

    Lucy Foster Madison

    Joan 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...

  • Poor Folk reviews

    Poor Folk Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    This 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...

  • Great Expectations reviews

    Great Expectations Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    An 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...

  • The Wind in the Willows reviews

    The Wind in the Willows Book Reviews

    Kenneth Grahame

    This 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

  • The Time Machine reviews

    The Time Machine Book Reviews

    H.G. Wells

    The 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 ...

  • Little House on the Prairie reviews

    Little House on the Prairie Book Reviews

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    The 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...

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer reviews

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews

    Mark Twain

    The 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...

  • Siddhartha reviews

    Siddhartha Book Reviews

    Hermann Hesse

    Hermann 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...

  • At the Mountains of Madness reviews

    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...

  • The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 1 reviews

    The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Volume 1 Book Reviews

    1265-1321 Dante Alighieri

    The 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...

  • An Ideal Husband reviews

    An Ideal Husband Book Reviews

    Oscar Wilde

    An 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...

  • Jude the Obscure reviews

    Jude the Obscure Book Reviews

    Thomas Hardy

    Jude 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...

  • 1984 reviews

    1984 Book Reviews

    George Orwell

    In 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...

  • Wuthering Heights reviews

    Wuthering Heights Book Reviews

    Emily Brontë

    The 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...

  • The Prophet reviews

    The Prophet Book Reviews

    Khalil Gibran

    The 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...

  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer reviews

    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Reviews

    Mark Twain

    In 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...

  • The Turn of the Screw reviews

    The Turn of the Screw Book Reviews

    Henry James

    In 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...

  • Candide reviews

    Candide Book Reviews

    Voltaire

    Candide 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...

  • The Gambler reviews

    The Gambler Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    The 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&#...

  • The Scarlet Letter reviews

    The Scarlet Letter Book Reviews

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The 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...

  • Dracula reviews

    Dracula Book Reviews

    Bram Stoker

    Dracula 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 ...

  • My Brilliant Career reviews

    My Brilliant Career Book Reviews

    Miles Franklin

    An 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...

  • Wuthering Heights reviews

    Wuthering Heights Book Reviews

    Emily Bronte

    Wuthering 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...

  • The Idiot reviews

    The Idiot Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Prince 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...

  • The Getting of Wisdom reviews

    The Getting of Wisdom Book Reviews

    Henry Handel Richardson

    An 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...

  • Robbery Under Arms reviews

    Robbery Under Arms Book Reviews

    Rolf Boldrewood

    An 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...

  • Selections from Poe reviews

    Selections from Poe Book Reviews

    Edgar Allan Poe & J. Montgomery Gambrill

    In 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.”

  • A Christmas Carol reviews

    A Christmas Carol Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    Celebrate 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 ...

  • Black Beauty reviews

    Black Beauty Book Reviews

    Anna Sewell

    The 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...

  • Persuasion reviews

    Persuasion Book Reviews

    Jane Austen

    Persuasion 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, ...

  • Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reviews

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Book Reviews

    Mark Twain

    Adventures 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...

  • Rebecca reviews

    Rebecca Book Reviews

    Daphne du Maurier

    The 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 ...

  • House of the Seven Gables reviews

    House of the Seven Gables Book Reviews

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The curse of Mathew Maule descends on seven generations of the inhabitants of an old New England house.

  • The Invisible Man reviews

    The Invisible Man Book Reviews

    H.G. Wells

    An 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 ...

  • The Iliad of Homer reviews

    The Iliad of Homer Book Reviews

    Homer

    The 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...

  • The Odyssey reviews

    The Odyssey Book Reviews

    Homer

    The 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...

  • A Tale of Two Cities reviews

    A Tale of Two Cities Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    The 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...

  • The Grapes of Wrath reviews

    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...

  • Brave New World reviews

    Brave New World Book Reviews

    Aldous Huxley

    Brave 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...

  • Such Is Life reviews

    Such Is Life Book Reviews

    Joseph Furphy

    An 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...

  • The Count of Monte Cristo reviews

    The Count of Monte Cristo Book Reviews

    Alexandre Dumas

    The 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'...

  • Notes from Underground reviews

    Notes from Underground Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Notes 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...

  • The Sun Also Rises reviews

    The Sun Also Rises Book Reviews

    Ernest Hemingway

    A 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...

  • The Old Curiosity Shop reviews

    The Old Curiosity Shop Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    The 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...

  • The Brothers Karamazov reviews

    The Brothers Karamazov Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    As 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...

  • 250 Greatest Books Collection reviews

    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 Faulkner

    Embark 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...

  • Oliver Twist reviews

    Oliver Twist Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    Charles 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...

  • The Plague reviews

    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...

  • Of Mice and Men reviews

    Of Mice and Men Book Reviews

    John Steinbeck

    Of 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 ...

  • The Dunwich Horror reviews

    The Dunwich Horror Book Reviews

    H. P. Lovecraft

    The 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...

  • The Brothers Karamazov reviews

    The Brothers Karamazov Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Dmitri 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...

  • A Study in Scarlet reviews

    A Study in Scarlet Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    A 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...

  • Dracula reviews

    Dracula Book Reviews

    Bram Stoker

    Dracula 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...

  • The Bell Jar reviews

    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...

  • Wuthering Heights reviews

    Wuthering Heights Book Reviews

    Emily Brontë

    An 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...

  • Brave New World reviews

    Brave New World Book Reviews

    Aldous Huxley

    Brave 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...

  • Discourses reviews

    Discourses Book Reviews

    Epictetus

    Raised 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...

  • Death on the Nile reviews

    Death on the Nile Book Reviews

    Agatha Christie

    Agatha 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...

  • David Copperfield reviews

    David Copperfield Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    The 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 ...

  • The Count of Monte Cristo reviews

    The Count of Monte Cristo Book Reviews

    Alexandre Dumas

    An 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...

  • Joan of Arc reviews

    Joan of Arc Book Reviews

    Lucy Foster Madison

    Joan 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...

  • Poor Folk reviews

    Poor Folk Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    This 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...

  • Great Expectations reviews

    Great Expectations Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    An 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...

  • The Wind in the Willows reviews

    The Wind in the Willows Book Reviews

    Kenneth Grahame

    This 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...