Classics

The Masque of the Red Death

Edgar Allan Poe

       This gripping story by the unforgettable writer Edgar Allan Poe tells of Prince Prospero escaping death in the monastery and hiding inside. The reason for hiding is a deadly plague known as the Red Death. He is hiding in...

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Readers of all ages, young and old, have admired Louisa May Alcott's most popular novel, Little Women (March Sister). This novel deals with events between tomboy and author Jo, Meg and Beth. This story, set in New England during Civil War, deals with...

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

For about a century, the first form of Upton Sinclair's exemplary novel has remained on the whole obscure. At the point when it was distributed in sequential structure in 1905, it was a full third longer than the blue-penciled, business version distr...

Anthem

Ayn Rand

Anthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic books, and a clear forerunner to her afterward magnum opuses, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. In Anthem, Rand analyzes a startling future in which people have no title, no freedom, and no...

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

"For sheer narrating delight and unadulterated experience, Treasure Island has never been outperformed. From the second youthful Jim Hawkins first experiences the vile Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic fight for treasure on a tr...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer spins around the young experiences of the novel's student hero, Thomas Sawyer, whose notoriety goes before him for causing wickedness and struggle. Tom lives with his Aunt Polly, relative Sid, and cousin Mary in the curio...

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

The story of Oliver Twist - stranded, and set upon by fiendish and difficulty from his to begin with breath - stunned perusers when it was distributed. After running absent from the workhouse and self important beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself...

The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, is a novel. It was first published in serial format beginning in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in full in 1911. It is now one of the most popular novels by Burnett, and is considered a mast...

The Time Machine

Herbert George Wells

So starts the Time Traveller’s surprising firsthand account of his adventure 800,000 years past his very own era—and the tale that released H.G. Wells’s a success profession and earned him his recognition as the daddy of technology...

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

It is the story of a youthful man who, changed overnight into a monster beetle-like creepy crawly, gets to be an question of disfavor to his family, an pariah in his claim domestic, a quintessentially estranged man. A harrowing—though foolishly...