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Published in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets shocked a world unprepared for its grim and starkly realistic exploration of a pretty young girl’s...

The first of Sinclair Lewis’s great successes, Main Street shattered the sentimental American myth of happy small-town life with its satire of narr...

In a novel filled with drama, greed, vanity, passion, and vulnerability, Jane Austen turns her unerring eye on the concerns of English society in t...

A lesser-known American classic, McTeague explores the darker side of success and the pitfalls of marriage for a turn-of-the-century couple.McTeagu...

Called away on business, Duke Vincentio leaves Vienna in the hands of his trusted minister Angelo. But as Angelo abuses his new power, he has no id...

One of the best-loved works of the nineteenth century, Middlemarch explores the complex social relationships in a town that moves and breathes wi...

Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure—a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict. At the heart of Moby-Dick...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's grand romantic comedy.Much Ado About Nothing casts the lovers Benedick and Beatrice in a witty...

Beloved American novelist Willa Cather’s nostalgic classic about life on the Midwest prairie.Emigrating from Bohemia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, with ...

From his precocious childhood to the end of what he calls his “amatory career,” an adventurous Victorian known only as “Walter” records a breathtak...

“Markham has achieved a startlingly vivid and coherent picture of Napoleon’s career, of the social and intellectual influences that molded it, and ...

Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secr...

The acclaimed million-copy bestselling novel about a woman’s struggle to find happiness in a changing India.Married as a child bride to a tenant fa...

Jane Austen's brilliant satire of the gothic novel.“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”The m...

A collection of powerful stories by one of the masters of Russian literature, illustrating Fyodor Dostoyevsky's thoughts on political philosophy, r...

"A direct, human tale of love and struggle and attainment—American in the best sense of the word."—The New York TimesOn the windy Nebraska prairie,...

From a tormented orphan with a clubfoot, Philip Carey grows into an impressionable young man with a voracious appetite for adventure and knowledge....

One of the great novelist’s most popular works, Oliver Twist is also the purest distillation of Dickens’s genius. This tale of the orphan who is re...

The first published novel from the controversial Nobel Prize winning Russian author of The Gulag Archipelago.In the madness of World War II, a duti...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's Othello, a disturbing exploration of jealousy and wrath.Tragedy takes hold as the cunning and ...

This collection of contemporary multi-cultural fiction includes stories by: Bessie Head * Charles Mungoshi * Ngugi wa Thiong'o * Wang Anyi * Ding L...

With the three works included in this volume--Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Lycidas--Milton placed himself next to Shakespeare, Dante, and H...

John Milton's classic epic poems in one pocket-sized volumeThese controversial biblical poems explore the story of Adam and Eve, Satan, and the fal...

24 stories from today's best indian authorsIndia's literary tradition has found a growing audience around the world. Many talented writers have arr...