Beginner-Friendly Classics to Read at the McPherson Library (HerCampus UVic)

Updated November 20, 2024
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Animal farm
Orwell, George
Paper Book
Featuring a new preface, this classic satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government is once again brought to life for a new generation of readers.
Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four
Calder, Jenni.
Paper Book
This edition features George Orwell's best known novels - 1984 and Animal Farm - with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind.  Winston Smith...
The catcher in the rye
Salinger, J. D.
Paper Book
The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you...
The catcher in the rye
Salinger, J. D.
Paper Book
The "brilliant, funny, meaningful novel" (The New Yorker) that established J. D. Salinger as a leading voice in American literature--and that has instilled in millions of readers around the world a lifelong love of books. "If you...
L'e?tranger
Camus, Albert
Paper Book
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger--Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the...
L'etranger
Camus, Albert
Paper Book
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger--Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the...
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby
Bloom, Harold.
Paper Book
- Presents the most important 20th century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature - The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism - Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index -...
Gatsby le magnifique de
Fitzgerald, Francis Scott
Paper Book
A beautiful, collectible hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby, one of the great American novels - and one of America's most popular - featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko. Part of the Penguin Vitae series, a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin...
Great Gatsby
Paper Book
A beautiful, collectible hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby, one of the great American novels - and one of America's most popular - featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko. Part of the Penguin Vitae series, a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin...
Great Gatsby
Paper Book
A beautiful, collectible hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby, one of the great American novels - and one of America's most popular - featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko. Part of the Penguin Vitae series, a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin...
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
A beautiful, collectible hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby, one of the great American novels - and one of America's most popular - featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko. Part of the Penguin Vitae series, a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin...
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
A beautiful, collectible hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby, one of the great American novels - and one of America's most popular - featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko. Part of the Penguin Vitae series, a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin...
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
A beautiful, collectible hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby, one of the great American novels - and one of America's most popular - featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko. Part of the Penguin Vitae series, a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin...
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
A beautiful, collectible hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby, one of the great American novels - and one of America's most popular - featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko. Part of the Penguin Vitae series, a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin...
The great Gatsby : a variorum edition
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
A beautiful, collectible hardcover edition of The Great Gatsby, one of the great American novels - and one of America's most popular - featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko. Part of the Penguin Vitae series, a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin...
I know why the caged bird sings
Angelou, Maya.
Paper Book
Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself....
The outsider
Camus, Albert
Paper Book
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger--Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the...
The outsider
Camus, Albert
Paper Book
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger--Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paper Book
Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets-The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted...
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets-The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted...
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets-The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted...
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets-The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted...
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets-The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted...
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
Oscar Wilde's enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets-The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author. Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted...
The stranger
Camus, Albert
Paper Book
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger--Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the...
To the lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia
Paper Book
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In...
To the lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia
Paper Book
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In...
To the lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia
Paper Book
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In...
To the lighthouse
Woolf, Virginia
Paper Book
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In...
To the lighthouse : the original holograph draft
Woolf, Virginia
Paper Book
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In...
Wuthering Heights
Bronte?, Emily
Paper Book
'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' 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...
Wuthering heights
Bronte?, Emily
Paper Book
'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' 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...
Wuthering Heights
Bronte?, Emily
Paper Book
'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then' 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...

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