Over 100 Years Old

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Updated May 7, 2026
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Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Of all Jane Austen's great and delightful novels, Persuasion is widely regarded as the most moving--the entrancing story of a second chance at love. Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish, spendthrift Sir Walter Elliot, is a woman of quiet charm and deep feelings. When she...
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
Paper Book
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before- of the intense passion between the foundling...
Great expectations
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
Perhaps Dickens's best-loved work, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, a young man with few prospects for advancement until a mysterious benefactor allows him to escape the Kent marshes for a more promising life in London. Despite his good fortune, Pip is haunted by figures from his past--the...
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
Charles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief....
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann's film. 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the...
Complete stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe, Edgar Allan
Paper Book
This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Paper Book
Join Huck and Jim as they journey down the Mississippi in this beloved companion to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and a standalone classic in its own right, with a fresh new cover and interior illustrations. "You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name...
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
Dorian Gray pays a hefty price for years of sin and vice in this completely unabridged edition, designed with a smaller format for easy portability.

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