Classics

An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader. Narrated by multiple Emmy and Tony award nominee David Morse, with a brand new afterword about the writing of THEO OF GOLDEN, narrated by the author himself...

Once upon a time, in an alleyway in the slums of the City of Lockes, a young and somewhat lonely boy named Sam Haversford turns a group of teenage douchebags into stone....

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...

The masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a sprawling epic in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence...

One of the most celebrated classics of the twentieth century, this cautionary tale of a man trapped under the gaze of an authoritarian state is more relevant now than ever before.

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...

For over sixty years, readers of all ages have been enchanted by the magical realms, the epic battles between good and evil, and the unforgettable creatures of Narnia. This box set includes all seven titles in The Chronicles of Narnia—The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe...

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...

Long-listed, Audible.com Best of the Year, 2007 Long-listed, Audible.com 100 Audible Essentials, 2007 Audie Award winner, 2008 NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh...

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts...

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...

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

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

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....

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...

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...

He was the father of the occult, the founder of astrology, the discoverer of alchemy. He was Hermes Trismegistus, and as the scribe of the gods of ancient Egypt, he possessed all divine knowledge... which he passed on to humanity, though only those who have been tutored in its wonders can fully...

A new recording of Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic Fahrenheit 451 narrated by Penn Badgley! Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable.

This carefully curated volume brings together a rich diversity of styles and genres, showcasing the evolution of storytelling across generations. Readers will encounter the dark imagination of Edgar Allan Poe, the warmth and moral insight of Louisa May Alcott, and the bold, thought-provoking narratives of Kate Chopin. Expanding into the realms of science fiction and modern literature, the anthology features the cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft, the powerful prose of Ernest Hemingway, and the visionary ideas of Ayn Rand.

The Essential Brontë Sisters Collection brings together the singular, definitive works of one of the most famous and impactful families of writers in history. Between Emily, Charlotte, and Anne, the Brontës wrote into existence some of the most memorable and long-lasting characters of English literature. Collected here are their most celebrated works - Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Jane Eyre , by Charlotte Brontë Orphaned Jane emerges from a cold, hostile upbringing at Lowood Institution to take her place as governess at Thornfield, home of Mr Rochester.

At Vassar, they were known as "the group"—eight young women of privilege, the closest of friends, an eclectic mix of vibrant personalities. In the years that follow, they will each know accomplishment and loss in equal measure, pursuing careers and marriage, experiencing the joys and traumas of sexual awakening and motherhood, all while suffering through betrayals, infidelities, and sometimes madness. Some of them will drift apart. Some will play important roles in the personal dramas of others. But it is tragedy that will ultimately unite the group once again.

The most famous opening sentence in English fiction. The most famous closing sentence in English fiction. And between them, the most concentrated, the most violent, and the most structurally daring novel Charles Dickens ever wrote. This Erato Press critical edition reads A Tale of Two Cities not as the melodrama its critics have called it, but as the tightly engineered work of revolutionary fiction it actually is. Published in 1859, serialized in Dickens's own journal All the Year Round, A Tale of Two Cities was written at the speed and emotional pressure of a man whose private life was ...

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Charlotte Brontë began writing Shirley with three siblings alive. By the time she finished it, she was the last one standing. This Erato Press critical edition reads the novel not as a footnote between Jane Eyre and Villette, but as the most ambitious and most wounded novel she ever wrote — a social novel broken by grief, whose fracture is itself the achievement. Published in 1849, Shirley was Brontë's attempt to write a novel without a first-person narrator, without a governess, without a locked attic: a panoramic social novel set during the Luddite uprisings of 1811–12, built on the...

The most important American literature of the twentieth century was written outside America. This anthology collects the definitive works of the writers who proved it. In the decade between the end of the First World War and the Wall Street Crash, a group of American writers crossed the Atlantic and produced, from the distance of exile, the books that would define modern American prose. Hemingway developed the iceberg theory in the cafés of Montparnasse. Fitzgerald anatomized the corruption of the American Dream from the Rive Gauche. Stein invented the continuous present in her salon at 27...

Fanny Price is the least popular heroine in English literature. She is also, possibly, the most important. This is the novel Jane Austen wrote to test whether her readers could tell the difference between charm and goodness. When ten-year-old Fanny Price is sent from her impoverished family in Portsmouth to live with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park, she enters a world that will never let her forget she does not belong in it. Her aunt, Mrs. Norris — one of the most devastatingly observed portraits of cruelty in English fiction — ensures that Fanny knows, at every moment, that she...

The first novel Jane Austen tried to publish — and the last to reach print. This Erato Press critical edition restores Northanger Abbey to its rightful place: not as a minor Austen comedy, but as the most formally daring and self-aware novel she ever wrote. Composed around 1798–1803, sold to a publisher for ten pounds, inexplicably shelved for thirteen years, and finally published posthumously in 1817, Northanger Abbey is a novel that arrived late to its own party — and found, on arrival, that it had anticipated everything. Its heroine reads Gothic fiction and expects the world to ...

Perhaps the most beloved of John Fowles's internationally bestselling works, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a feat of seductive storytelling that effectively invents anew the Victorian novel. "Filled with enchanting mysteries and magically erotic possibilities" (New York Times), the novel...

Three masterworks from the most revolutionary decade in American prose — with In Our Time, The Torrents of Spring, and over 100 pages of original critical essays on the iceberg theory, the Lost Generation, and the man behind the mask. Between 1925 and 1929, Ernest Hemingway published the body of work that would permanently alter the course of American literature. Writing from the cafés of the Left Bank and the fiestas of Pamplona, he forged a prose style so radical in what it chose not to say that every serious American writer who followed would have to reckon with it. This Erato Press ...

A woman stands on a scaffold, an infant in her arms and a scarlet letter stitched to her breast. The crowd stares. The magistrates demand a name. She refuses to speak. With that single act of silence, Hester Prynne enters the mythology of American literature — not as a sinner, but as the first character in the American novel to choose disgrace over surrender. The Scarlet Letter is the founding novel of American literary fiction. Published in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's dark masterpiece transformed the Puritan past into a psychological landscape where guilt, desire, and hypocrisy become ...

In Thus Spoke Zarathustra , the philosopher-prophet Zarathustra descends from his mountain solitude to challenge everything humanity thinks it knows about truth, morality, religion, and purpose. Through poetic speeches, parables, and sharp philosophical provocations, he introduces radical ideas that shake modern thought. Part philosophical manifesto, part mystical epic, and part psychological exploration, this revolutionary work pushes listeners to confront a question that still feels urgent today: If old beliefs no longer guide us, what should we become?

He was dead. The public refused to accept it. Conan Doyle, who had killed his most famous creation with surgical precision at the Reichenbach Falls, was compelled by subscription losses, public mourning, and financial necessity to do the impossible: bring him back. This Erato Press critical edition reads The Return of Sherlock Holmes as the most morally complex and structurally daring collection in the canon — the work of a writer who resented his creation and, in his resentment, made it better. "The Adventure of the Empty House" opens in 1894 with Watson, still grieving, visiting the ...

A children's book that adults have not been able to stop reading for a hundred and forty years — because it was never really a children's book. This Erato Press critical edition reads Treasure Island as the serious, strange, and morally unsettling novel it actually is. In the summer of 1881, on a rainy morning in the Scottish Highlands, Robert Louis Stevenson drew a map to amuse his thirteen-year-old stepson. The map showed an island with bays and hills and a swamp, with names invented as he went: Skeleton Island, Spy-glass Hill, the Hispaniola. Stevenson stared at the finished map and ...

In the grand halls of the British aristocracy, a quiet crisis is brewing. Widowed Lord Theign, burdened by his daughter Kitty's mounting gambling debts, prepares to do the unthinkable: sell his prized Sir Joshua Reynolds masterpiece, 'The Duchess of Waterbridge' – to the formidable American billionaire Breckenridge Bender. At the heart of the conflict are art critic Hugh Crimble, who believes that a nation's masterpieces are its soul, and Theign's other daughter, the spirited Lady Grace, torn between her conscience and her loyalty to her father.

The second Sherlock Holmes novel opens with a cocaine injection and ends with a marriage proposal — and between those two acts of self-destruction, as Holmes himself might observe, lies one of the most structurally ambitious detective stories of the nineteenth century. This Erato Press critical edition reads The Sign of the Four as the darker, stranger, and more interesting novel it actually is. Commissioned at a London dinner in 1889 — the same dinner at which Oscar Wilde was commissioned to write The Picture of Dorian Gray — The Sign of the Four begins with the most famous opening ...

When a young boy named Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map and narrowly escapes pirates searching for it, he brings it to Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney, who immediately outfit a schooner named The Hispaniola and bring Jim along as cabin boy to retrieve the buried treasure. However, as they near the secret island, Jim discovers that 19 out of the 25 members of the crew are plotting a mutiny, lead by the ship’s cook, Long John Silver.

Quasimodo, the isolated and disfigured bell-ringer of the great cathedral, lives hidden from the world—feared by the crowds below and bound in loyalty to the powerful archdeacon who raised him. But everything changes when he encounters Esmeralda, a free-spirited dancer whose kindness awakens a longing he has never known. As desire, jealousy, and power collide in the shadow of the cathedral, the lives of Quasimodo, Esmeralda, and those around them spiral toward a tragic reckoning. In a city ruled by appearances and authority, compassion may be the rarest—and most dangerous—virtue of all.

The year is 1984. The British government has become impersonal and apathetic, not run by a particular party or corresponding ideology, but by the random selection of a new figurehead each year. When the eccentric Auberon Quin is chosen to lead the country, the nation begins to take a whimsical turn. In an attempt to liven up London, Auberon transforms the city into a mock-medieval town, complete with crests, flags and costumes. Everything is a joke–that is until Adam Wayne, a young man claiming to be the Napoleon of Notting Hill, begins to take it seriously.

Squire Vane, a noble man from Cornwall, has three 'peacock trees' in his local village, imported by his ancestors. However, a sinister legend hovers around these trees: it is said that they are destined to spread disease and bring severe misfortune to those who cross them. A rationalist to his core and allergic to any form of superstition, Squire dismisses these rumours as nothing but foolish whispers. But when some local village people raise the topic with Squire, he can take no more – angered, he insists on spending the night sleeping beneath the trees to prove their harmlessness.

Meet Basil Grant — former judge, occasional philosopher, and full-time eccentric — as he stumbles into a secret society unlike any other. In this exclusive club, the only rule of entry is that each member must invent a brand-new profession. The more bizarre, the better. When Basil's skeptical brother and a skeptical ex-detective friend get caught in a series of baffling encounters — including duels in flower gardens, poetry-as-business, and suspiciously polite assassins — they soon uncover a world where the line between genius and madness is dangerously thin.

'Madmen do not rebel against logic – they merely use it where it is not applicable.' A brilliantly unique collection of short stories, The Poet and the Lunatics was originally published in Nash's Magazine in 1921. Today, it remains a masterpiece of detective fiction. Gabriel Gale, an eccentric poet, often finds himself acting as detective when he becomes entangled in a series of bizarre and psychologically challenging events.

Part spy novel and part allegory, The Man Who Was Thursday centres on Gabriel Symes, a poet who was recruited by Scotland Yard to secretly infiltrate an anarchist group. During his first meeting with the anarchists, Symes is unexpectedly elected as a new delegate to the central council. Each member is named after a day of the week, and so Syme becomes ‘Thursday’. As he begins to unmask the other council members, he discovers that all is not what it seems: one by one these supposed anarchists are unveiled to be working undercover too. That is until Syme gets to man called ‘Sunday’…