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Updated May 11, 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
Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS'sThe Great American Read Wuthering Heights,first published in 1847, the year before the author's death at the age of thirty, endures today as perhaps the most powerful and intensely original novel in the...
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
In honor of the 150th anniversary of W.E. B. Du Bois's birth in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the University of Massachusetts Library has prepared a new edition of Du Bois's classic, The Souls of Black Folk. Originally published in 1903, Souls introduced a number of now...
The great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Paper Book
For the centennial of its publication, a new edition of one of the most iconic of American novels, featuring an introduction by Min Jin Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Pachinko, and, special to this edition, four of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories about wealth and...
Far from the madding crowd
Hardy, Thomas
Ebook
Thomas Hardy's classic tale of a woman brave enough to defy convention: Now a major motion picture starring Carey Mulligan Spirited, impulsive, and beautiful, Bathsheba Everdene arrives in Wessex to live with her aunt. She strikes up a friendship with a neighbor, Gabriel Oak, and...
Simon the coldheart
Heyer, Georgette
Ebook
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...
The last days of Socrates
Plato.
Paper Book
'Consider just this, and give your minds to this alone: whether or not what I say is just' Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BC) is a significant moment in Classical literature and the life of Classical Athens. In these four dialogues, Plato develops 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 sonnets ; and, A lover's complaint
Shakespeare, William
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. When this volume of Shakespeare's poems...
The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
The authoritative edition of Hamlet from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in...
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 small house at Allington
Trollope, Anthony
Ebook
The classic tale of romance and betrayal from a distinguished master of English satire. The fifth novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire epitomizes the wit, attention to detail, and thoughtful analysis of class and gender issues that made Anthony...
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Paper Book
Mark Twain's beloved masterpiece of boyhood-with an afterword by Alfred Kazin "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It's the best book we've had."-Ernest Hemingway "You don't know about me without...
The extraordinary journeys : Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Verne, Jules
Ebook
Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster. With help from the world's greatest harpooner, the men discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine with a mysterious leader, Captain Nemo. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for enhanced Common...
Candide
Voltaire
Paper Book
A flamboyant and controversial personality of enormous wit and intelligence, Voltaire remains one of the most influential figures of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment.Candide,his masterpiece, is a brilliant satire of the theory that our world is “the best of all possible worlds.” The...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Ebook
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of desire and duty in Gilded Age New York A respected lawyer and scion of one of Manhattan's most important families, Newland Archer knows what people expect of him and is eager to comply. The first step on the path to happiness is to wed May...
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...

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