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Updated May 11, 2026
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Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Persuasion, by Jane Austen, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general...
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...
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
In this classic social commentary from Dickens, Mr. Samuel Pickwick, retired business man and confirmed bachelor, is determined that after a quiet life of enterprise the time has come to go out into the world. Together with the other members of the Pickwick Club: Tracy Tupman, Augustus...
The souls of Black folk
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Paper Book
One of the most widely read and influential works in African American literature, "The Souls of Black Folk" is W.E.B. Du Bois's classic collection of essays in which he details the state of racism and black culture at the beginning of the 20th century. Often autobiographical, "The Souls of Black...
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
The only edition of the beloved classic that is authorized by Fitzgerald's family and from his lifelong publisher. This edition is the enduring original text, updated with the author's own revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and with a new introduction by National Book...
Far from the madding crowd
Hardy, Thomas
Paper Book
Complete stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Poe, Edgar Allan
Paper Book
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the earliest pioneers of the short story and perfected the tale of psychological horror. This title collects Poe's fiction and poetry, including The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, Annabel Lee, and the novel The...
The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however, lies in its uncertainties. ...
Frankenstein : the 1818 text
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
Mary Shelley's classic novel, presented in its original 1818 text, with an introduction from National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon   Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read   The...
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Paper Book
Mark Twain's brilliant 19th-century novel has long been recognized as one of the finest examples of American literature. It brings back the irrepressible and free-spirited Huck, first introduced in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and puts him center stage. Rich in...
The extraordinary journeys : Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Verne, Jules
Paper Book
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Candide
Voltaire
Paper Book
"All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds"   It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this "optimism" concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the "all for the best" approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters,...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Winner of the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to a book written by a woman, The Age of Innocence is a suspenseful, deeply moving, and brilliantly accomplished novel of the struggle between desire and destiny. In the polished works of Edith Wharton, Old New York is a...
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
VINTAGE CLASSICS X MADE.COM Dorian is a good-natured 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 apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle...

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