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  • Finding Cinderella reviews

    Finding Cinderella Book Reviews

    Colleen Hoover

    #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends With Us writes a free novella about the search for happily ever after. A chance encounter in the dark leads ei...

  • Dracula reviews

    Dracula Book Reviews

    Bram Stoker

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Few characters have seized readers’ imaginations quite like Count Dracula of Transylvania, the hero of Bram Stoker’s classic. The 1897 novel put vam...

  • 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 ...

  • 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, inhabited by genetically modif...

  • Don Quixote reviews

    Don Quixote Book Reviews

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

    Don Quixote is a novel that doesn’t need much introduction. Not only is it widely considered the greatest Spanish literary work of all time, one of the greatest literary works in h...

  • Like a Winter Snow reviews

    Like a Winter Snow Book Reviews

    Lindsay Harrel

    Cozy up with this charming romance all about unexpected love, true friendship, and family loyalty. Set during a Christmastime wedding among the falling snow, this sweet story will ...

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reviews

    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Book Reviews

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    An Apple Books Classic edition. What would happen if you let your darkness out? Are you certain you’d be able to rein it back in? When Dr. Jekyll turned toward the dark side, he wa...

  • Winters Legend on Stone Mountain reviews

    Winters Legend on Stone Mountain Book Reviews

    Michelle Files

    Money. Power. Lies. Murder. Some families will do whatever it takes to win. Carson Winters does as he pleases, without guilt or shame. And no one can stop him. But his judgment day...

  • Wuthering Heights reviews

    Wuthering Heights Book Reviews

    Emily Brontë

    Outside the strange and bleak manor Wuthering Heights, overlooking the Yorkshire moors, the ghost of a young woman stands at the window, wanting to be let in.... Considered scandal...

  • The Old Man and the Sea reviews

    The Old Man and the Sea Book Reviews

    Ernest Hemingway

    This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and losesspecifically referred ...

  • 1984 reviews

    1984 Book Reviews

    George Orwell

    1984 is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in h...

  • Jane Eyre reviews

    Jane Eyre Book Reviews

    Charlotte Brontë

    Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness a...

  • Crime and Punishment reviews

    Crime and Punishment Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during...

  • Little Women reviews

    Little Women Book Reviews

    Louisa May Alcott

    While their father is away at war, the four March sisters try their best to maintain life in their New England home. Fifteenyearold Jo, modeled after author Louisa May Alcott, is a...

  • 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...

  • War and Peace reviews

    War and Peace Book Reviews

    Leo Tolstoy

    Perhaps literature’s greatest epic, War and Peace tells an astonishingly ambitious, profoundly personal, and vastly extensive story of Russia in the age of Napoleon. A work of hist...

  • The Honeymoon Homicide reviews

    The Honeymoon Homicide Book Reviews

    J. R. Mathis & Susan Mathis

    Enjoy this SmallTown Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple I'm Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest in a smalltown parish who never expected this . . . When I came...

  • Pomeranian Puzzle reviews

    Pomeranian Puzzle Book Reviews

    Molly Maple

    When Hannah Hart moves to the small town of Apple Blossom Bay to look after her eccentric aunt, she doesn't expect the first thing she finds to be a murder. Apple Blossom Bay ...

  • The Bell Jar reviews

    The Bell Jar Book Reviews

    Sylvia Plath

    The Bell Jar chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going undermaybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath mast...

  • A Tale of Two Cities reviews

    A Tale of Two Cities Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    One of the most famous works of fiction ever written, A Tale of Two Cities presents a portrait of Paris and London in the years before and after the French Revolution. It follows a...

  • 1984 reviews

    1984 Book Reviews

    George Orwell

    1984 is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, 1984 cen...

  • The Steel Shark reviews

    The Steel Shark Book Reviews

    Rebecca Cantrell

    His dog. His computer. The tunnels under New York City. That's all Joe Tesla's agoraphobia has left him withthe inside world, the dark worldand now the black depths of th...

  • Yes, I Love You - PassionUp Love Poems reviews

    Yes, I Love You - PassionUp Love Poems Book Reviews

    Bobette Bryan & PassionUp.com

    Passion Up you life with this book of 50 love poems optimized especially for iOS devices. Gain exclusive access to PassionUP.com's extensive library of Love Poem online eCards...

  • Little Women reviews

    Little Women Book Reviews

    Louisa May Alcott

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Meet the Marches! Louisa May Alcott’s classic introduces us to four unforgettable sisters: beautiful Meg, tomboyish Jo, delicate Beth, and Amy, the ...

  • 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...

  • 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 Iliad reviews

    The Iliad Book Reviews

    Homer

    The Iliad 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 the ...

  • The Mystery of the Blue Train reviews

    The Mystery of the Blue Train Book Reviews

    Agatha Christie

    When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again for a heavy blow has killed her, disf...

  • The Lost World reviews

    The Lost World Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Both Pompeii and Petra were excavated in the 1800s, and as explorers were searching for (and finding) more mysterious ancient cities, authors were f...

  • Journey to the Center of the Earth reviews

    Journey to the Center of the Earth Book Reviews

    Jules Verne

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Many credit Jules Verne with inventing the genre of science fiction. In this novel, the author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Call of the Wild reviews

    The Call of the Wild Book Reviews

    Jack London

    Living the lazy and luxurious life of a pet, Buck could not know that gold was discovered in Alaska, nor that this discovery would forever change his life. Stolen from his master a...

  • Moby Dick reviews

    Moby Dick Book Reviews

    Herman Melville

    MobyDick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels. The story tells the adventures of wandering...

  • Horrors Next Door reviews

    Horrors Next Door Book Reviews

    Tom Coleman

    Do you dare to enter... Horrors Next Door is a collection of short Mystery, Psychological, Suspense, and Horror stories that will arouse your senses and puzzle your mind. Some of t...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • Pride and Prejudice reviews

    Pride and Prejudice Book Reviews

    Jane Austen

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Jane Austen’s beloved classic opens with this witty and very memorable line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possessio...

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray reviews

    The Picture of Dorian Gray Book Reviews

    Oscar Wilde

    Dorian is a goodnatured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he app...

  • Casino Royale reviews

    Casino Royale Book Reviews

    Ian Fleming

    British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to play in a highstakes baccarat game in an effort to take down Le Chiffre, a financier for the villainous SMERSH. Thin...

  • 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...

  • The Raven reviews

    The Raven Book Reviews

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Poet tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamen...

  • The Odyssey reviews

    The Odyssey Book Reviews

    Homer

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Homer’s eighthcentury epic poem is a companion to The Iliad . It tells the story of Odysseus, who journeys by ship for 10 years after the Trojan War...

  • 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 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 by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). Completed in 1844, it is one of the author's most po...

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray reviews

    The Picture of Dorian Gray Book Reviews

    Oscar Wilde

    The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 i...

  • 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 ...

  • Mansfield Park reviews

    Mansfield Park Book Reviews

    Jane Austen

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Jane Austen’s novels are known for providing a witty and satirical glimpse into the interior lives of Victorianera women. Mansfield Park , one of he...

  • 1984 reviews

    1984 Book Reviews

    George Orwell

    1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell written in 1948, which follows the life of Winston Smith, a low ranking member of ‘the Party’, who is frustrated by the omnipresent eyes ...

  • A Mother for Christmas reviews

    A Mother for Christmas Book Reviews

    Jackie Weger

    Decker Davenport is on a deadline. He has thirty days Christmas Eve, to be exact to remodel a St. Augustine Victorian house or the owner will put it back on the market. Not a goo...

  • 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...

  • The Scarlet Letter reviews

    The Scarlet Letter Book Reviews

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Hester Prynne lives in infamy. After committing adultery and bearing a child with a man whose name she refuses to divulge, the heroine of Nathaniel ...

  • 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...

  • Moby Dick reviews

    Moby Dick Book Reviews

    Herman Melville

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Herman Melville’s classic begins with one of the most famous opening lines in world literature: “Call me Ishmael.” Moby Dick was a commercial failur...

  • 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...

  • The Great Gatsby reviews

    The Great Gatsby Book Reviews

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

    An Apple Books Classics edition. The Roaring Twenties are in full effect in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s riveting classic. Manabouttown Jay Gatsby seems to have it all, including loads of...

  • A New York Secret reviews

    A New York Secret Book Reviews

    Ella Carey

    She looked at the telegram in horror, the words blurring in front of her eyes. She dropped to her knees, feeling that her entire world was ending. The paper slipped from her hands ...

  • The Old Man and the Sea reviews

    The Old Man and the Sea Book Reviews

    Ernest Hemingway

    The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953, and the year after, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ernest Hemingway in 1954. It was the la...

  • Guardians of Medieval Wales reviews

    Guardians of Medieval Wales Book Reviews

    Sarah Woodbury

    Time travel, mystery, magic, legend ... journey to a world of kings and castles with four couples in this collection of series starters set in medieval Wales! Daughter of Time: Som...

  • When God Whispers Loudly reviews

    When God Whispers Loudly Book Reviews

    Chris M. Hibbard

    When God whispers, the wise listen. In this short story, a busy husband and father fails to heed the quiet voice of the Lord. In doing so, he experiences the loving admonition of G...

Best Seller Paid Fiction Literature Books of 2023

  • Finding Cinderella reviews

    Finding Cinderella Book Reviews

    Colleen Hoover

    #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Starts with Us and It Ends With Us writes a free novella about the search for happily ever after. A chance encounter in the dark leads ei...

  • Dracula reviews

    Dracula Book Reviews

    Bram Stoker

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Few characters have seized readers’ imaginations quite like Count Dracula of Transylvania, the hero of Bram Stoker’s classic. The 1897 novel put vam...

  • 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 ...

  • 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, inhabited by genetically modif...

  • Don Quixote reviews

    Don Quixote Book Reviews

    Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

    Don Quixote is a novel that doesn’t need much introduction. Not only is it widely considered the greatest Spanish literary work of all time, one of the greatest literary works in h...

  • Like a Winter Snow reviews

    Like a Winter Snow Book Reviews

    Lindsay Harrel

    Cozy up with this charming romance all about unexpected love, true friendship, and family loyalty. Set during a Christmastime wedding among the falling snow, this sweet story will ...

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reviews

    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Book Reviews

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    An Apple Books Classic edition. What would happen if you let your darkness out? Are you certain you’d be able to rein it back in? When Dr. Jekyll turned toward the dark side, he wa...

  • Winters Legend on Stone Mountain reviews

    Winters Legend on Stone Mountain Book Reviews

    Michelle Files

    Money. Power. Lies. Murder. Some families will do whatever it takes to win. Carson Winters does as he pleases, without guilt or shame. And no one can stop him. But his judgment day...

  • Wuthering Heights reviews

    Wuthering Heights Book Reviews

    Emily Brontë

    Outside the strange and bleak manor Wuthering Heights, overlooking the Yorkshire moors, the ghost of a young woman stands at the window, wanting to be let in.... Considered scandal...

  • The Old Man and the Sea reviews

    The Old Man and the Sea Book Reviews

    Ernest Hemingway

    This short novel, already a modern classic, is the superbly told, tragic story of a Cuban fisherman in the Gulf Stream and the giant Marlin he kills and losesspecifically referred ...

  • 1984 reviews

    1984 Book Reviews

    George Orwell

    1984 is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in h...

  • Jane Eyre reviews

    Jane Eyre Book Reviews

    Charlotte Brontë

    Charlotte Brontë’s most beloved novel describes the passionate love between the courageous orphan Jane Eyre and the brilliant, brooding, and domineering Rochester. The loneliness a...

  • Crime and Punishment reviews

    Crime and Punishment Book Reviews

    Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during...

  • Little Women reviews

    Little Women Book Reviews

    Louisa May Alcott

    While their father is away at war, the four March sisters try their best to maintain life in their New England home. Fifteenyearold Jo, modeled after author Louisa May Alcott, is a...

  • 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...

  • War and Peace reviews

    War and Peace Book Reviews

    Leo Tolstoy

    Perhaps literature’s greatest epic, War and Peace tells an astonishingly ambitious, profoundly personal, and vastly extensive story of Russia in the age of Napoleon. A work of hist...

  • The Honeymoon Homicide reviews

    The Honeymoon Homicide Book Reviews

    J. R. Mathis & Susan Mathis

    Enjoy this SmallTown Murder Mystery Featuring A Unique Sleuthing Couple I'm Father Tom Greer, a Catholic Priest in a smalltown parish who never expected this . . . When I came...

  • Pomeranian Puzzle reviews

    Pomeranian Puzzle Book Reviews

    Molly Maple

    When Hannah Hart moves to the small town of Apple Blossom Bay to look after her eccentric aunt, she doesn't expect the first thing she finds to be a murder. Apple Blossom Bay ...

  • The Bell Jar reviews

    The Bell Jar Book Reviews

    Sylvia Plath

    The Bell Jar chronicles the crackup of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going undermaybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath mast...

  • A Tale of Two Cities reviews

    A Tale of Two Cities Book Reviews

    Charles Dickens

    One of the most famous works of fiction ever written, A Tale of Two Cities presents a portrait of Paris and London in the years before and after the French Revolution. It follows a...

  • 1984 reviews

    1984 Book Reviews

    George Orwell

    1984 is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, 1984 cen...

  • The Steel Shark reviews

    The Steel Shark Book Reviews

    Rebecca Cantrell

    His dog. His computer. The tunnels under New York City. That's all Joe Tesla's agoraphobia has left him withthe inside world, the dark worldand now the black depths of th...

  • Yes, I Love You - PassionUp Love Poems reviews

    Yes, I Love You - PassionUp Love Poems Book Reviews

    Bobette Bryan & PassionUp.com

    Passion Up you life with this book of 50 love poems optimized especially for iOS devices. Gain exclusive access to PassionUP.com's extensive library of Love Poem online eCards...

  • Little Women reviews

    Little Women Book Reviews

    Louisa May Alcott

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Meet the Marches! Louisa May Alcott’s classic introduces us to four unforgettable sisters: beautiful Meg, tomboyish Jo, delicate Beth, and Amy, the ...

  • 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...

  • 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 Iliad reviews

    The Iliad Book Reviews

    Homer

    The Iliad 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 the ...

  • The Mystery of the Blue Train reviews

    The Mystery of the Blue Train Book Reviews

    Agatha Christie

    When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again for a heavy blow has killed her, disf...

  • The Lost World reviews

    The Lost World Book Reviews

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Both Pompeii and Petra were excavated in the 1800s, and as explorers were searching for (and finding) more mysterious ancient cities, authors were f...

  • Journey to the Center of the Earth reviews

    Journey to the Center of the Earth Book Reviews

    Jules Verne

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Many credit Jules Verne with inventing the genre of science fiction. In this novel, the author of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Call of the Wild reviews

    The Call of the Wild Book Reviews

    Jack London

    Living the lazy and luxurious life of a pet, Buck could not know that gold was discovered in Alaska, nor that this discovery would forever change his life. Stolen from his master a...

  • Moby Dick reviews

    Moby Dick Book Reviews

    Herman Melville

    MobyDick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels. The story tells the adventures of wandering...

  • Horrors Next Door reviews

    Horrors Next Door Book Reviews

    Tom Coleman

    Do you dare to enter... Horrors Next Door is a collection of short Mystery, Psychological, Suspense, and Horror stories that will arouse your senses and puzzle your mind. Some of t...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • Pride and Prejudice reviews

    Pride and Prejudice Book Reviews

    Jane Austen

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Jane Austen’s beloved classic opens with this witty and very memorable line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possessio...

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray reviews

    The Picture of Dorian Gray Book Reviews

    Oscar Wilde

    Dorian is a goodnatured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamorous world of selfish luxury, he app...

  • Casino Royale reviews

    Casino Royale Book Reviews

    Ian Fleming

    British Secret Service agent James Bond, a.k.a. 007, is sent to play in a highstakes baccarat game in an effort to take down Le Chiffre, a financier for the villainous SMERSH. Thin...

  • 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...

  • The Raven reviews

    The Raven Book Reviews

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Poet tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamen...

  • The Odyssey reviews

    The Odyssey Book Reviews

    Homer

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Homer’s eighthcentury epic poem is a companion to The Iliad . It tells the story of Odysseus, who journeys by ship for 10 years after the Trojan War...

  • 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 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 by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). Completed in 1844, it is one of the author's most po...

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray reviews

    The Picture of Dorian Gray Book Reviews

    Oscar Wilde

    The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 i...

  • 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 ...

  • Mansfield Park reviews

    Mansfield Park Book Reviews

    Jane Austen

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Jane Austen’s novels are known for providing a witty and satirical glimpse into the interior lives of Victorianera women. Mansfield Park , one of he...

  • 1984 reviews

    1984 Book Reviews

    George Orwell

    1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell written in 1948, which follows the life of Winston Smith, a low ranking member of ‘the Party’, who is frustrated by the omnipresent eyes ...

  • A Mother for Christmas reviews

    A Mother for Christmas Book Reviews

    Jackie Weger

    Decker Davenport is on a deadline. He has thirty days Christmas Eve, to be exact to remodel a St. Augustine Victorian house or the owner will put it back on the market. Not a goo...

  • 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...

  • The Scarlet Letter reviews

    The Scarlet Letter Book Reviews

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Hester Prynne lives in infamy. After committing adultery and bearing a child with a man whose name she refuses to divulge, the heroine of Nathaniel ...

  • 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...

  • Moby Dick reviews

    Moby Dick Book Reviews

    Herman Melville

    An Apple Books Classic edition. Herman Melville’s classic begins with one of the most famous opening lines in world literature: “Call me Ishmael.” Moby Dick was a commercial failur...

  • 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...

  • The Great Gatsby reviews

    The Great Gatsby Book Reviews

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

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