Classics

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENONEMON A Katie Couric Book Club Pick A Jen Hatmaker Book Club Pick “[A] word-of-mouth smash hit.” —The New York Times “A treasure.” —Hoda Kotb One spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He doesn't...

THE GREAT MODERN CLASSIC AND PRELUDE TO THE LORD OF THE RINGS Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face. He had a...

This brand-new unabridged audiobook of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings, is read by the BAFTA Award-winning actor, director, and author Andy Serkis. In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narrator The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last...

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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER OVER 120 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE PUBLISHED IN 89 LANGUAGES “Teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books of a Generation” A spellbinding audio presentation of the extraordinary bestseller...

The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron. The tales of The Silmarillion are set...

This brand-new unabridged audiobook of The Two Towers, the second part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings, is read by the BAFTA award-winning actor, director, and author Andy Serkis. The company of the Ring is torn asunder. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone...

This brand-new unabridged audiobook of The Return of the King, the third and final part of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings, is read by the BAFTA Award-winning actor, director, and author Andy Serkis. The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads...

The bestselling science fiction series of all time continues! Frank Herbert's second installment explores new developments on the desert planet Arrakis, with its intricate social order and its strange threatening environment. Dune Messiah picks up the story of the man known as Maud'dib, heir to...

READ BY SISSY SPACEK Harper Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its...

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture....

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett “Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline...

Inspired by The Hobbit and begun in 1937, The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy that J.R.R. Tolkien created to provide "the necessary background of history for Elvish tongues". From these academic aspirations was born one of the most popular and imaginative works in English literature. The...

A lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life....

This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is...

From number one New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement...

One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)....

From number one New York Times best-selling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A contemporary literary classic and "an accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Goldfinch. Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric...

The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The...

C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old Devil to his nephew, Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man....

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin....

The Two Towers is the second volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic saga, The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship has been forced to split up. Frodo and Sam must continue alone towards Mount Doom, where the One Ring must be destroyed. Meanwhile, at Helm’s Deep and Isengard, the first great battles of...

The novel that invented the Austen heroine — and spent two hundred years being misread by its own title. Jane Austen published Sense and Sensibility in 1811, after more than fifteen years of revision. It was her first novel to appear in print, and it sold out its first edition in twenty months. It has never gone out of print. The title announces a binary that literary criticism has accepted ever since: Elinor is sense, Marianne is sensibility. Head and heart. Restraint and feeling. The rational sister and the romantic one. Two hundred years of readers have arrived at this novel expecting ...

Translated for the first time into English, this richly textured novel by "the shining light of Catalan literature" (Colm Tóibín), follows one young woman's homecoming, as she navigates love, friendship, ambition and betrayal in a Barcelona on the brink of revolution—with an introduction by...

H.P. Lovecraft invented a new kind of fear. This edition reads twelve of his essential tales as the philosophical project they always were. The oldest and strongest kind of fear, Lovecraft wrote, is fear of the unknown. Not the monster in the dark — the monster you understand, the one with rules, the one that can be defeated. The fear that cannot be defeated: the universe's complete indifference to your existence. No gods who care. No cosmic order that includes you. Only vast, cold, ancient forces that predate consciousness and will outlast it. Lovecraft called this cosmic horror. Before ...

Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849. By October 9, he had already been invented. The obituary published two days after his death — signed "Ludwig," later revealed as Rufus Wilmot Griswold, his literary executor and personal enemy — was not biography. It was preemptive mythology. It described a man of "scant virtues" and "numerous vices," a drunk, a madman, a moral failure whose genius was incidental to his depravity. Within weeks, Griswold had gone further: forging letters, altering texts, inserting fabricated passages into documents Poe had actually written. The archive was ...

Full-cast dramatisations of six seminal sci-fi novels that have shaped the genre Thrilling and thought-provoking, shocking and satirical; science fiction has long captivated us with its surprising scenarios and subversion of the familiar. Included here are six classics from the past 250 years...

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote three of the most enduring stories in English literature. Each one invented something the genre had never seen before. He is underestimated in the way that only writers of extreme narrative skill tend to be underestimated — as if the pleasure a story gives is evidence against its seriousness. Treasure Island invented the template for the adventure novel so completely that every pirate story written since is either following it or reacting against it. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gave the English language a phrase — and a psychological concept ...

Favorites for nearly 100 years, these classic novels follow the adventures of the spirited redhead Anne Shirley, who comes to stay at Green Gables and wins the hearts of everyone she meets. Includes the following beloved eight titles: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Anne of Windy Poplars, and Anne of Ingleside.

Jane Austen's last novel — and her most radical. The one in which the heroine already knows everything the other heroines spend the book learning. Jane Austen completed Persuasion in 1816, less than a year before her death. It was published posthumously in 1818, alongside Northanger Abbey, and has been overshadowed by the louder novels ever since. It is quieter than Pride and Prejudice, less comic than Emma, less dramatic than Sense and Sensibility. It is also, by many measures, the most perfectly made thing Austen wrote. Anne Elliot is twenty-seven years old when the novel begins — old...

The inspiration for One Battle After Another "Quite simply, one of those books that will make this world - our world, our daily chemical-preservatice, plastic-wrapped bread - a little more tolerable, a little more human . . . [Pynchon's] voice - absolutely unmistakeable and absolutely inimitable...

Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile and sent off to his American publisher only days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only story in which Zweig looks at Nazism, and he does so with characteristic...

Stevenson wrote this novella in six days in 1885. It gave the English language a phrase for what it could not otherwise name: the respectable man and what he does in the dark. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is not a story about a scientist who goes wrong. It is a story about Victorian respectability — the particular violence of a society that demands one face in public and buries everything else — and what happens when the buried thing refuses to stay buried. Hyde is not Jekyll's evil twin. He is Jekyll's authentic self, made possible by a drug that removes the social ...

Oscar Wilde wrote the only novel that could have destroyed him — and then revised it to conceal what it said. Both versions are here. The Picture of Dorian Gray appeared first in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 and was immediately denounced as immoral, unclean, and fit only for outlawed classes. The critics were not wrong about what they were reading. A beautiful young man who trades his soul to preserve his youth. A painter who loves him with a devotion that dares not speak its name. A lord who corrupts him with pure aestheticism. Beneath the surface of a gothic fable about vanity ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne spent his entire career writing about one thing: the weight of what his ancestors had done, and what America refused to remember about itself. His great-great-grandfather was a judge at the Salem witch trials. Hawthorne added the "w" to his name in part to distance himself from that inheritance. It didn't work. The past — Puritan severity, inherited guilt, the violence concealed beneath respectability — runs through every page he wrote. He is the American novelist of conscience, the writer who understood before anyone else that the national mythology of innocence and...

The first sentence is a joke. Everything that follows is serious. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." Jane Austen wrote that in 1813 and it has never stopped being funny — or stopped being true in the specific way that cuts. The sentence is ironic. The society it describes was not. Pride and Prejudice is a novel about intelligence operating inside a system designed to prevent its exercise. Elizabeth Bennet is the most perceptive person in every room she enters — and the room, being England in 1813, has ...

Four full-cast stories of suspense from the creator of Dr Gideon Fell The master of the ‘impossible crime’ novel, American author John Dickson Carr was renowned for his Golden Age detective stories featuring the eccentric genius Dr Gideon Fell. This collection brings together four of his...

Russia’s literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman—a professor of black magic—arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving...

Three novels about children who were forgotten, and what happened when they decided not to be. Frances Hodgson Burnett wrote for children. She also wrote about the most serious things adults spend their lives avoiding: what neglect does to a person, whether damage can be undone, and whether there is something in the human will — or in a garden, or in a friend, or in a locked room discovered at midnight — that can reverse what seemed irreversible. The Secret Garden (1911) begins with a cholera epidemic in colonial India and a child no one wanted — and becomes, slowly and precisely, one...

Every obsessive, destructive, unforgettable love interest in dark romance traces its DNA to Heathcliff. This is the edition that finally makes the source text fully readable. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) invented the dark romance hero before the category had a name. Heathcliff is not redeemable. He does not want to be. He returns from wherever he went transformed into something barely human, and spends the rest of his life methodically destroying everyone connected to the woman he loved — including her daughter, her memory, and himself. Modern dark romance has spent two ...

When the American Otis family buys the English mansion Canterville Chase, they ignore warnings that it is haunted. Far from being frightened by the ghost of Sir Simon, a centuries-old spirit, the Otises baffle him by offering stain remover for his bloodstains and lubricant for his noisy chains. While the family's mischievous twins terrorize the specter, he falls into despair. Only the compassion of young Virginia can help the tormented ghost find redemption and eternal rest in this clever satire about cultural clashes.

Descend into cosmic dread with Three of the Scariest H. P. Lovecraft Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft. This chilling collection features Medusa’s Coil, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and Herbert West–Reanimator—three unforgettable tales of forbidden knowledge, grotesque transformation, and ancient horrors lurking just beyond human understanding. From decaying seaside towns to unholy scientific experiments and sinister family legacies, Lovecraft’s masterful blend of psychological terror and cosmic horror continues to unsettle and captivate readers and listeners more than a century later.

This is not the translation you already know. This is the one Dumas deserved. In 1844, Alexandre Dumas serialized The Three Musketeers in a Paris newspaper at a pace that left readers sleepless and booksellers helpless. He was writing, he said, not about what happened — but about what could have happened. That distinction explains everything. His seventeenth century is not the historian's; it is the novelist's: a century of rapiers and intrigue and absolute loyalty among men who have no reason to trust anyone, and trust each other completely. The Three Musketeers — D'Artagnan rides out ...

A young man finishes a letter to a friend living in Russia, puts it in his pocket, and crosses the hall to his father's room to mention his engagement. The conversation begins as nothing and ends as a judgment. Kafka wrote this story in a single night in September 1912, at twenty-nine, and later called it the first thing he'd written that was truly his own. The English translation follows Kafka's sentence structure closely. An afterword on Kafka's life gives context for first-time readers and for those returning after years.

LongBefore H.P. Lovecraft defined cosmic horror, a generation of pioneering writers was already exploring the unknown. Of the Unknown: Before Lovecraft collects 11 influential tales of early science fiction, weird fiction, and speculative horror that shaped the genre’s foundations. Featuring...

"The Seven Dials Mystery" by Agatha Christie is a light-hearted detective novel featuring Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent. The story begins with the mysterious death of Bundle's would-be fiance Gerry Wade, who is found dead after a prank involving alarm clocks. When another death follows, Bundle becomes entangled in a web of intrigue involving a secret society called the Seven Dials. With the help of her friends, including Superintendent Battle, she investigates a plot tied to espionage and stolen government secrets.

Una habitación. Una mujer. Y un papel pintado que parece moverse. En esta tercera entrega de Cámara Sellada, El Gabinete Negro recupera uno de los relatos más inquietantes de la historia: El papel amarillo, una obra pionera del terror psicológico que desciende a los límites de la mente humana. Acompañan a este clásico los relatos Despedida, Cuando yo era una bruja, Si yo fuera un hombre y El gigante Wistaria, completando una edición que explora la obsesión, el encierro y la fragilidad de la identidad, en un estilo que anticipa el horror psicológico moderno. Edición comentada ...