Over 100 Years Old

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Updated May 11, 2026
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Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Featuring one of her most likeable characters, this sparkling love story set in a seaside resort is Jane Austen's final finished work. "There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison." Since Anne Elliot eight years...
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
Paper Book
The title of the novel comes from the Yorkshire manor on the moors of the story. The narrative centres on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them. ...
The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club
Dickens, Charles
Paper Book
Charles Dickens's satirical masterpiece, The Pickwick Papers, catapulted the young writer into literary fame when it was first serialized in 1836-37. It recounts the rollicking adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club as they travel about England getting into all sorts of mischief....
The souls of Black folk
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Paper Book
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in "The Souls Of Black Folk," one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published in 1903, Du Bois dares as no one has before...
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...
Simon the coldheart
Heyer, Georgette
Ebook
A valiant orphan rises to knighthood--and finds love with an enemy--in this historical romance of chivalry and adventure during the Hundred Years' War. At the dawn of the fifteenth century, England is locked in a bitter war with France. Simon, the illegitimate son of Geoffrey of...
The last days of Socrates
Plato.
Ebook
The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's incomparable tragic play. "To be, or not to be- that is the question" There is arguably no work of fiction quoted as often as William Shakespeare's Hamlet. This haunting tragedy of a troubled Danish...
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Paper Book
Originally intended as a sequel to his immensely popular Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn stands on its own as one of America's most important and beloved literary classics. For generations, young and old alike have delighted in the unforgettable...
The extraordinary journeys : Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Verne, Jules
Paper Book
Candide
Voltaire
Audiobook
Caustic and hilarious, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide, disciple of Dr. Pangloss.In the course of his travels in Europe and South America, Candide sees and suffers such misfortune that it...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal in the sumptuous Golden Age of New York, when society people "dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional...

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