English Class Classics

He has built a fortune. Now he wants entry into a world that money alone cannot buy. Stanisław Wokulski has lived many lives: student, political exile, merchant, and self-made man. After returning to Warsaw with newfound wealth, he possesses the means to transform his future—and perhaps his place in society. Then he becomes captivated by Izabela Łęcka. Beautiful, aristocratic, and raised in a world far removed from his own, Izabela belongs to a class whose fortunes may be fading but whose social barriers remain formidable. As Wokulski is drawn deeper into her world, his pursuit becomes...

Constance Chatterley lives inside a marriage emptied by war, class, and emotional distance. Her relationship with Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on her husbands estate, becomes both an awakening and a challenge to the social order surrounding them. First published privately in 1928 and suppressed for decades, Lady Chatterleys Lover is more than a notorious banned book: it is Lawrences fierce examination of closeness, industrial society, class division, and the estrangement of modern life. This annotated edition presents the complete, unexpurgated 1928 text with original editorial material ...

The Forsyte Saga chronicles the ebbing social power of the upper-middle-class Forsyte family through three generations, beginning in Victorian London during the 1880s and ending in the early 1920s. The saga begins with Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor who buys land at Robin Hill on which...

Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody are jealous when Bonnie brings home a pet hamster. But when the hamster gets loose, Buzz and Woody realize they need to get the fuzzy creature back in its cage before Bonnie gets home!

This edition of Kafka's terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product of an international team of experts who used Kafka's original text and notes to render this story as close to the author's vision as possible. Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man's relentless struggle with...

Paris, 1840. A young man from the provinces boards a riverboat heading home, and in a single moment, his life changes — though not in any way he could predict, or that anyone around him would notice. Frédéric Moreau is nineteen, ambitious, and full of feeling that has nowhere to go. In the years that follow, he will pursue a career in law, then abandon it. He will move in the glittering circles of Parisian society — artists, journalists, financiers, revolutionaries — and fail to become any of them. He will fall in love, repeatedly and inconclusively. And he will carry, through all ...

This annotated edition of Sons and Lovers includes: • A 15,000-word critical study, "The Glow on the Horizon" • On the Oedipus complex — and the Freud that Lawrence refused • A full life of D.H. Lawrence, from colliery town to exile • A Note on the Texts: the 1913 first edition, and what it left out • On the mining-village world that made him The title promises love. The novel is about why one of its sons can never manage it. Paul Morel grows up in a Nottinghamshire mining village, between a coarse, drinking collier father he despises and a refined, disappointed mother who has ...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is an enduring classic that perfectly balances sparkling comedy with deep emotional truth. Enter the world of the Bennet family, a household of five unmarried daughters facing an uncertain future in a society where marriage is the only path to security.

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been...

Carlos Bulosan’s idealism and ambition would seem to position him for certain success in America, even given how young he is when he first makes the journey from the Philippines. However, after arriving in Seattle, employers are far more concerned with his Filipino background than they are with his character. Low-paying jobs - and an uncertain future - remain his daily reality. 

This Pulitzer Prize–winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the...

Mompracem, 1849. A hurricane rages over the small fortress island that is home to the most feared pirate fleet in the South China Sea — and to Sandokan, the indomitable "Tiger of Malaysia," who has spent ten years waging war against the Dutch and British empires that destroyed his kingdom and murdered his family. He is fearless. He is undefeated. And he is about to make the most reckless decision of his life. When Sandokan learns of Marianna Guillonk — the "Pearl of Labuan," a young Englishwoman of extraordinary beauty living under British protection — he resolves, against the urgent ...

Are you trying to provide a classical education without having received one yourself? You might know the subject you’re teaching well, but so much of classical education transcends the textbook. What should the classroom, culture, and spirit of the classroom be like? And how can you know you’re doing it well? In this new audiobook from Mandi Gerth, you will find the guidance you need to create a truly classical classroom.

It used to be pretty easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture. The bourgeois worked for corporations, wore gray, and went to church. The bohemians were artists and intellectuals. Bohemians championed the values of the liberated 1960s; the...

One boy’s invented word becomes a phenomenon beyond his control in bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements’s hilarious classic children’s story about creative thought and the power of language. Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at...

Brought to you by Penguin. Read the seminal bestselling novel that changed the face of British fiction and inspired Danny Boyle's film. 'The best book ever written by man or woman... Deserves to sell more copies than the Bible' Rebel Inc Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose...

Pride and Prejudice has delighted generations of readers with its unforgettable cast of characters, carefully choreographed plot, and a hugely entertaining view of the world and its absurdities. With the arrival of eligible young men in their neighbourhood, the lives of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters are turned inside out and upside down.

The Other Bennet Sister presents Mary Bennet in a whole new light as she becomes Austen's newest leading lady. Now a major BBC One TV series, starring Richard E. Grant, Ruth Jones and Ella Bruccoleri. Read by the amazing Kristen Atherton. One by one, the Bennet sisters have found their place...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover the original Japanese Cat classic, now in a vibrant new translation by Nick Bradley, author of The Cat and the City. 'I am a Cat. But I still don't have a name...' Once a stray kitten, I Am a Cat’s narrator finds himself adopted by a local scholar and thrown...

A fiery lady must tame her brooding employer in this enchanting retelling of Beauty and the Beast from the New York Times bestselling author of the Maiden Lane series. THERE COMES A TIME IN A LADY'S LIFE The Earl of Swartingham is in a quandary. Having frightened off two secretaries, Edward de...