Read to Learn! Classics for Teens and Adults

Learn something new by studying the classics and participating in our September SweetBean Challenge on Beanstack!

Updated August 27, 2024
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David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles
CD
This much loved novel was Dicken's own favourite. It is easy to see why. Music: various.
Frankenstein or The modern Prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss, black sprayed edges, black-stained pages, and black endpapers. Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro.
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.
The hobbit, or, There and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paper Book
The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure. A timeless classic. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the...
Kidnapped
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paper Book
Original oil paintings by N. C. Wyeth capture the vitality of Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of fortune, camaraderie, betrayal, and independence in this stunning picture book edition of Kidnapped. David Balfour has never had an adventure. He has never spent a night...
Pride and prejudice
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS'sThe Great American Read "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." So beginsPride and Prejudice,Jane Austen's witty comedy of manners...
Hamlet
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
Here are the books that help teach Shakespeare plays without the teacher constantly needing to explain and define Elizabethan terms, slang, and other ways of expression that are different from our own. Each play is presented with Shakespeare's original lines on each left-hand page, and a modern,...

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