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Updated July 5, 2026
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Persuasion
Austen, Jane
Paper Book
Of all Jane Austen's great and delightful novels, Persuasion--the story of a second chance at true love--is widely regarded as the most moving. With a new introduction by Brandon Taylor. Anne Elliot, daughter of the snobbish Sir Walter Elliot, is woman of...
Jane Eyre
Brontë, Charlotte
Paper Book
Jane Eyre is one of the most loved English Classics of all time! Mystery, hardship--and love. Jane comes from nothing but she desires everything life can offer her. And when she finds work as a governess in a mysterious mansion, it seems she has finally met her match with the...
Wuthering Heights
Brontë, Emily
Paper Book
Emily Brontë's only novel and a gothic classic--a gripping story of obsession, revenge, and tragedy--now the feature film "Wuthering Heights" from Emerald Fennell, which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie as Cathy and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff. ...
The red badge of courage : an episode of the American Civil War
Crane, Stephen
Paper Book
Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are shattered when he comes face to face with the bloodshed and horrors of war. Now he's a raw recruit, Henry experiences both fear and self-doubt. Will war make Henry a coward or a...
The souls of Black folk
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Paper Book
Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary--each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.<...
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
This story of a proud rural beauty and the three men who court her is the novel that first made Thomas Hardy famous. Despite the violent ends of several of its major characters, Far from the Madding Crowd is the sunniest and least brooding of Hardy's great novels. The strong...
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
The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
Shakespeare, William
Paper Book
In this quintessential Shakespeare tragedy, a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father unfolds in a series of highly charged confrontations that have held audiences spellbound for nearly four centuries. Those fateful exchanges, and the anguished...
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark
Paper Book
The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author ofReading Lolita in TehranandThe Republic of Imagination In recent years, neither the persistent effort to"clean...
The extraordinary journeys : Twenty thousand leagues under the sea
Verne, Jules
Paper Book
Join Captain Nemo and the Nautilus as they journey into the deep in Jules Verne's classic science fiction tale. In an age that has seen the wildest speculations of science become reality, Jules Verne is regarded as both a technological prophet and one of the most exciting...
Candide
Voltaire
Paper Book
Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth-century classic is actually a savage, satiric thrust...
The age of innocence
Wharton, Edith
Paper Book
"We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?" --Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence In a society where people "dreaded scandal more than disease," passion was a force of ruin. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence is set...
Complete writings
Wheatley, Phillis
Paper Book
The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a formerly enslaved woman turned published poet In 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a ship of enslaved people, was sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. After studying English and classical...
The picture of Dorian Gray
Wilde, Oscar
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. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray...

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