Over 100 Years Old

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Updated May 11, 2026
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Persuasion
Austen, Jane.
Paper Book
Jane Austen's beloved and subtly subversive final novel of romantic tension and second chances. Now a motion picture from Netflix starring Dakota Johnson and Henry Golding, and a TikTok Book Club Pick. At twenty-­seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic...
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
Paper Book
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. In a house haunted by memories, the...
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
Four members of a nineteenth-century London social club journey to places outside the city and become involved in romantic adventures and a few legal scrapes.
The double ; and, The gambler
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Paper Book
Two award-winning translators present the definitive English versions of Fyodor Dostoevsky's strikingly original short novels The Double and The Gambler "Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era."-The New Yorker<...
The souls of Black folk
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Paper Book
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk struck like a thunderclap, quickly establishing itself as a work that wholly redefined the history of the 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
Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy’s passionate tale of the beautiful, headstrong farmer Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors, firmly established the thirty-four-year-old writer as a popular novelist. According to Virginia Woolf, “The subject was right; the method was right;...
Simon the coldheart
Heyer, Georgette
Paper Book
In the early 15th century, during the middle of the Hundred Years' War, England and France were fighting for sovereignty over France. It was a time of hand-to-hand combat, the invention of the longbow, and real knights in armor. Simon Beauvallet was born in 1386, the...
In the shadow of Edgar Allan Poe : classic tales of horror, 1816-1914
Klinger, Leslie S.
Paper Book
A masterful collection of horror fiction by widely acclaimed authors whose contributions to the genre have been lost in the shadow of Poe, by one of America's foremost anthologists. Edgar Allan Poe did not invent the tale of terror. There were American, English, and Continental...
Basho : the complete haiku
Matsuo, Bash¿
Paper Book
Basho stands today as Japans most renowned writer, and one of the most revered. Wherever Japanese literature, poetry or Zen are studied, his oeuvre carries weight. Every new student of haiku quickly learns that Basho was the greatest of the Old Japanese Masters. Yet despite his stature, Bashos...
The last days of Socrates : Euthypho, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Plato.
Paper Book
The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of Classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues, Plato also developed his own philosophy, based on Socrates' manifesto for a life guided by self...
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.
Shakespeare's sonnets ; and, A lover's complaint
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
The most famous collection of love poems in the English language, Shakespeare's Sonnets have spoken to generations of readers who have turned to them again and again when searching for supreme examples of expressions of love. Covering the whole range of emotions from joy to anguish, these sonnets...
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...
Tristram Shandy
Sterne, Laurence
Paper Book
This bawdy, high-spirited novel--whose author, Laurence Sterne, was described by Diderot as "the Rabelais of the English"--provoked a literary scandal when its first two volumes were published in 1759. A masterpiece of narrative absurdity, ribald humor, and philosophical playfulness, Tristram...
The small house at Allington
Trollope, Anthony
Paper Book
This book is intended for general; all Trollope fans, students of Victorian literature.
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Paper Book
'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.'- Ernest Hemingway Of all the contenders for the title of The Great American Novel, none has a better claim than The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intended at first...
20,000 leagues under the sea
Verne, Jules
Paper Book
Originally published in 1870, Verne's amazing undersea adventure is one of the earliest science fiction novels ever written. Since that time, generations of readers have plunged below the ocean's waves with Captain Nemo and his first-ever submarine, The Nautilus. It's a...
Candide, or, Optimism
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
Set in old New York, this novel details the thwarted romance between Newland Archer, a young dandy, and the beautiful, unconventional divorceee Countess Ellen Olenska. The cast of characters includes Newland's docile - and calculating - fiancee, May Welland and the lordly Mrs Manson Mingott.
Complete writings
Wheatley, Phillis
Paper Book
The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a formerly enslaved woman turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a ship of enslaved people, was sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. After studying English and classical...
The singing creek where the willows grow : the rediscovered diary of Opal Whiteley
Whiteley, Opal Stanley.
Paper Book
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears...

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