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An orphan boy escapes a London workhouse and falls among thieves. Dickens's powerful indictment of Victorian poverty and the crimi...

Set during the French Revolution, this sweeping historical novel follows lives torn apart by violence and transformed by sacrifice...

Stephen Dedalus grows from Catholic childhood to artistic awakening in Ireland. Joyce's revolutionary autobiographical novel that ...

A young Union soldier discovers the reality of war in the American Civil War. The first great modern war novel, written with stunn...

A doomed love triangle in rural New England, constrained by poverty, duty, and the crushing weight of small-town life. Wharton's m...

A New York society man falls in love with a fascinating outsider but is bound by convention and duty to another. Wharton's Pulitze...

Edna Pontellier discovers her own desires and refuses to suppress them. A groundbreaking feminist novel, shocking in its time and ...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes — twelve more electrifying cases including the final showdown with Moriarty at the Reichenbach Fall...

The novel that helped start a war. Stowe's portrait of slavery's cruelty moved millions and changed history. Abraham Lincoln repor...

Nietzsche's critique of past philosophers and conventional morality. A provocative, aphoristic masterwork that challenges every co...

A sweeping portrait of provincial English life following several interconnected characters. Virginia Woolf called it one of the fe...

Maggie Tulliver grows up caught between her passionate nature and the rigid expectations of her provincial society. Eliot's most a...

On the wild Egdon Heath, passionate characters clash with fate and social convention. Hardy's brooding masterpiece of doomed love ...

A miserly weaver, falsely accused and exiled, finds redemption through an abandoned child. Eliot's shortest and most perfectly con...

Jude Fawley dreams of university but is trapped by class and marriage. Hardy's final and most devastating novel — so shocking it c...

Julien Sorel, a carpenter's son of burning ambition, rises through French society by intelligence and seduction. The first great p...

A young man descends into the brutal world of French coal mining and joins the workers' struggle for dignity. Zola's most powerful...

A poor girl becomes the most celebrated courtesan in Paris, destroying the men who adore her. Zola's devastating portrait of Secon...

Arkady brings his nihilist friend Bazarov home, and the collision between generations reshapes everyone. Turgenev's masterpiece of...

The mysterious Chichikov travels rural Russia buying the names of dead serfs. Gogol's darkly comic masterpiece is a devastating sa...

A poor copying clerk sacrifices everything for a new overcoat — then has it stolen. Gogol's most celebrated story launched a tradi...

Elena, a passionate Russian girl, falls in love with a Bulgarian revolutionary rather than her conventional suitors. Turgenev's ly...

Young Candide travels through a world of disaster and absurdity, clinging to his tutor's optimism. Voltaire's devastating satirica...

A pious hypocrite insinuates himself into a wealthy family and nearly destroys them. Moliere's greatest comedy — so controversial ...

Alceste refuses to flatter or dissemble in a society built on social performance. Moliere's most ambiguous comedy asks: is uncompr...

Mill's foundational argument for individual freedom against the tyranny of society and the state. The essential text of liberal po...

Mill's concise defence of utilitarianism — the greatest good for the greatest number. The most readable introduction to the moral ...

The most influential political pamphlet ever written. Marx and Engels analyse capitalism, class struggle, and the historical force...

Thoreau spends two years in a cabin in the woods and writes the definitive account of deliberate, simple living. The founding text...

Thoreau argues that individuals must refuse to cooperate with unjust laws. The essay that inspired Gandhi and Martin Luther King J...