Over 100 Years Old

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Updated May 11, 2026
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Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Eight years ago, pretty Anne Eliot was persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick. Now he re-appears, rich and successful.
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
Paper Book
'Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!' Emily Brontë's novel of impossible desires,...
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
The first real expression of Dostoevsky's genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelgänger-a man who has his name and his face and who gradually and relentlessly begins to displace him...
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, published in 1874, is the book that made Hardy famous.  Bathsheba Everdene is a prosperous farmer in Hardy's fictional Wessex county whose strong-minded independence and vanity lead to disastrous consequences for her and the three very...
The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, author of Ace of Spades 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark' The King of Denmark is dead. When Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, meets the King's ghost and discovers he was murdered, he swears vengeance against the killer: his...
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman
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 adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Paper Book
"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn," Ernest Hemingway wrote, "It's the best book we've had."nbsp;nbsp;A complex masterpiece that has spawned volumes of scholarly exegesis and interpretative theories, it is at heart a compelling adventure...
The extraordinary journeys : Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Verne, Jules
Paper Book
Readers are seldom aware that the early English translations of Verne's famous novel drastically abbreviate the text. Mickel has translated the entire French text (based on the 1871 edition) accurately, reasonably literally, and very readably. He includes a thorough introduction and thoughtful notes...
Candide
Voltaire
Paper Book
In this new translation of Voltaire's Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novel's irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Ebook
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Newland Archer saw little to envy in the marriages of his friends, yet he prided himself that in May Welland he had found the companion of his needs--tender and impressionable, with equal purity of mind and...
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
Paper Book
Oscar Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliant puzzle, intended to tease convention minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative preface, challenging the reader to believe in "art for art's sake", to its...

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