Classics Books


The Moon Is DownThe Moon Is Down
Best Price: $6.81
In 1941, John Steinbeck met with officials of the Foreign Information Service in Washington D.C....
The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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Although this has the reputation of an antique, buy it immediately. Stephen King never wrote...
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Essentials)Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Essentials)
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If you haven't read it, you are to be envied. This is one of the great, rare little literary...
Sense and Sensibility (Puffin Classics)Sense and Sensibility (Puffin Classics)
Best Price: $3.33
I just finished reading this book and I have fallen in love with it. Austen is funny and...
Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $8.49
There surely can't be many tragic love stories more affecting and involving than this. Nor,...


A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin English Library)A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin English Library)
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This is an extraordinary book!But,it isn't surprising,after all it's Dickens.This book...
Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)Far from the Madding Crowd (Penguin Classics)
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This is a fantastic introduction to Hardy's work for those who have not yet plunged into his...
Jude the Obscure (English Library)Jude the Obscure (English Library)
Best Price: $5.00
"Jude the Obscure" is a rare find! Jude Fawley is a kind, decent man who...
The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the ScrewThe Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw
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Well these are my two favorite works by Henry James. In both James displays his very neatly...
Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $5.61
"Daniel Deronda" was the last novel George Eliot wrote, and it's an appropriate...


Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)Jude the Obscure (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $4.40
If there's one strange habit that's become a subtle part of my life it's that I have...
The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $5.99
I have absolutely no doubts whatsoever that Charles Dickens, if he lived today, would still...
Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics)Bel-Ami (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $5.47
Georges Duroy is working as a railway clerk, earning a miserable 1,500 francs a year and...
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.93
After Herman Melville's tales of mountainous waves, disease, apparitions, murders, suicides,...
Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
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This is a story of a man with a painful soul who hunts god/whale and the sacrifices made by fate...

Phantom of the Opera (Penguin Popular Classics)Phantom of the Opera (Penguin Popular Classics)
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Gaston Leroux, born in 1868, was a French journalist and author. Although a successful writer of...
The OdysseyThe Odyssey
Best Price: $24.95
This is an absolutely fabulous product, but if you are not used to listening to audio books, I...
Ethan Frome: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Ethan Frome: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Best Price: $5.00
Edith Wharton filled her novels with a feeling of ruin, passion and restriction. People can fall...
Animal Farm: A Fairy StoryAnimal Farm: A Fairy Story
Best Price: $18.90
This book was a good book on communism and dictatorship. It was very easy to understand. If you...
The PearlThe Pearl
Best Price: $4.15
The novella, midway in length between the novel and the short story, was a popular literary form...

Howard's EndHoward's End
Most of us connect the notion of "home" or "childhood home" with one...
Puck of Pook's Hill (Penguin Classics)Puck of Pook's Hill (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $19.99
I don't know what the previous "reviewer" was injecting but I suggest he...
ULYSSESULYSSES
Best Price: $11.00
It seems Ulysses touches on every theme experienced in human life. But it doesn't dwell on...
The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)The Grapes of Wrath (20th Century Classics)
Best Price: $7.95
"The Grapes of Wrath," written in 1939 by John Steinbeck, is a book about the...
The House of Mirth (Twentieth-Century Classics)The House of Mirth (Twentieth-Century Classics)
Best Price: $3.00
this is my favorite book. absolute favorite. it's not unusual for me to get caught up in a...

Heart of Darkness (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)Heart of Darkness (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
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'Heart of Darkness', the tale of a European seaman journeying up an African river, is a...
Ethan Frome (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)Ethan Frome (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
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If you've read other Wharton works, you suspect her denouement in a case of forbidden love,...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, by James Joyce, is about growing up Irish Catholic in...
The Red Pony (Twentieth-Century Classics)The Red Pony (Twentieth-Century Classics)
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This is Steinbeck's ninth novel or more accurately a novella. The writing is exceptional and...
Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (Rabbit Ears)Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (Rabbit Ears)
Best Price: $61.28
Of course the story is a great one, but the illustrations in this book are just beautiful. Very...

The Painted VeilThe Painted Veil
Best Price: $3.00
advises one of the handful of colorful characters (the Mother Superior) in this story of a...
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
Best Price: $8.95
my language arts teacher had my class choose a book to read. I had no idea what I wanted,...
War and RemembranceWar and Remembrance
Best Price: $19.80
I just finished this novel and I have felt a bit lost the last couple days. How can I possibly...
The Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy ClassicThe Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic
Best Price: $6.50
"The Hobbit" is a great classic fantasy. Charles Dixon and Sean Deming risked the...
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1)
Best Price: $1.91
The ring has once again found a new owner after spending many years in the hands of Bilbo it was...

The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3)The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, Part 3)
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One Ring to find them One Ring to bring them all And in the darkness bind them Each generation...
Fahrenheit 451Fahrenheit 451
Best Price: $5.02
Sometime in the not-so-distant future, the world will change severely. Soon people's homes...
tom JOnestom JOnes
Best Price: $3.13
Tom Jones is an excellent book, and although it is very long, it continues to entertain the...
Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
Best Price: $13.90
In this 1910 story of Edwardian England, Forster illustrates the conflicts between the superior...
Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics)Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics)
Whether one believes or not: Satan disguises as a foreign magician, and along with his...

Little Women (Penguin Classics)Little Women (Penguin Classics)
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Louisa May Alcott wrote many books, but "Little Women" retains a special place in the...
MiddlemarchMiddlemarch
Best Price: $17.99
I am very unhappy with this product. Although it is described as 'unabridged' that was...
The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Best Price: $7.36
I wish it were possible to read certain books for the first time without knowing how they will...
Tess of the d'UrbervillesTess of the d'Urbervilles
My favorite book of classic literature, Tess had me crying and begging for more. Hardy unfolds...
Emma (Oxford World's Classics)Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
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Emma is basically a darling snob. She has a kind, loving heart, and really wants to do good, but...

Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)Oliver Twist (Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
Best Price: $19.95
Right off the bat, I've never been a fan of Dickens. To me, there's always been...
Dracula (World's Classics)Dracula (World's Classics)
Best Price: $3.76
This classic is by far one of the most thrilling of the many books that I have read. From the...
The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics)The Mayor of Casterbridge (Oxford World's Classics)
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The Mayor of Casterbridge focuses mainly on Michael Henchard, but it's the little characters...
The Comedies (Oxford World's Classics)The Comedies (Oxford World's Classics)
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Terence was the outstanding comedic playwright of his generation and one of the founding fathers...
Le Morte D'Arthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics)Le Morte D'Arthur: The Winchester Manuscript (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $82.78
The Oxford World's Classics edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur is a superb...

The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)The Old Curiosity Shop (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $4.95
(I should note I read this novel without the benefit of the Penguin or World's Classics...
The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)The Odd Women (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $7.20
This is a lesser-known classic that deserves more recognition that it gets. It is a novel about...
The Three Musketeers (The World's Classics)The Three Musketeers (The World's Classics)
Best Price: $4.99
This is by far one of the best (if not the best) books ever written. The First in a Series of...
Tess of the D'UrbervillesTess of the D'Urbervilles
My review is based on the Oxford Classics Edition. Thomas Hardy seems to have been interested...
Sense & Sensibility (Everyman's Library)Sense & Sensibility (Everyman's Library)
Best Price: $2.72
Jane Austin is one of my favorite authors. I think that "Persuasion" is her best...

Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)
Best Price: $47.10
I've noticed that the negative reviews of the novel are focused on the sexual content...
Flappers and Philosophers (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)Flappers and Philosophers (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Fitzgerald's stories manage to unite his otherworldly grasp of the fluctuations in the human...
King Henry V (Cambridge School Shakespeare)King Henry V (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
Best Price: $0.99
Henry V remains today as the most heroic of English Kings. The battle of Agincourt in English...
Fahrenheit 451 (Spanish) (Spanish Edition)Fahrenheit 451 (Spanish) (Spanish Edition)
This tale is as important today as it was when I first read this book 17 years ago. Back then I...
ImmortalityImmortality
Best Price: $7.52
Kundera is surprisingly easy to read, provided that you don't try to understand the whole...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
Best Price: $27.99
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a...
Nostromo (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)Nostromo (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
Best Price: $18.85
Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, this work is an illustration of the...
White FangWhite Fang
Jack London's classic companion novel to Call of the Wild is now available through Buki...
Nemesis (Agatha Christie Collection S.)Nemesis (Agatha Christie Collection S.)
Best Price: $105.44
Even the unflappable Miss Marple is astounded as she reads the letter addressed to her on...
The Crying of Lot 49The Crying of Lot 49
Best Price: $5.95
The Crying of Lot 49 is an amazingly rich and complex work, especially when you consider its...

A Room With A View LPA Room With A View LP
Best Price: $12.75
A Room with a View is a prominent novel about a man and a woman, class, and societal...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A NovelThe Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
Best Price: $89.94
... and the vertigo that might accompany it. The fear of falling. Tereza saw "book...
The Bell JarThe Bell Jar
Best Price: $8.99
Sylvia Plath has in many circles been something of the poster child for modern nihilism, almost...
Transparent ThingsTransparent Things
Best Price: $165.02
If it’s true that the main reason Nabokov wrote ...“Lolita” was so...
Emma (Penguin Classics)Emma (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $6.98
No one reads a book like Fiona Shaw. No matter what she narrates, her voice weaves a golden...

Bleak House (Penguin Audiobooks)Bleak House (Penguin Audiobooks)
Best Price: $45.60
Ananchronistic terminology, a foreign society & culture, and intervening years conspire...
Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $3.00
This book was a major disapointment. I had never read a Jane Austen novel before I read this...
Sense and Sensibility - Audio BookSense and Sensibility - Audio Book
Best Price: $4.94
I read (heard--on audiocassette) this book after seeing the film. I loved them both. Jane...
Clea (Alexandria Quartet)Clea (Alexandria Quartet)
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Durrell further explores not only another love for Darley, but what art is and what it ought to...
Sense & Sensibility (Everyman's Library)Sense & Sensibility (Everyman's Library)
Best Price: $2.72
Jane Austin is one of my favorite authors. I think that "Persuasion" is her best...

Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence)
Best Price: $47.10
I've noticed that the negative reviews of the novel are focused on the sexual content...
Flappers and Philosophers (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)Flappers and Philosophers (The Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Fitzgerald's stories manage to unite his otherworldly grasp of the fluctuations in the human...
King Henry V (Cambridge School Shakespeare)King Henry V (Cambridge School Shakespeare)
Best Price: $0.99
Henry V remains today as the most heroic of English Kings. The battle of Agincourt in English...
Fahrenheit 451 (Spanish) (Spanish Edition)Fahrenheit 451 (Spanish) (Spanish Edition)
This tale is as important today as it was when I first read this book 17 years ago. Back then I...
ImmortalityImmortality
Best Price: $7.52
Kundera is surprisingly easy to read, provided that you don't try to understand the whole...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
Best Price: $27.99
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is Mark Twain's most popular book, and its hero is a...
Nostromo (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)Nostromo (HarperCollinsAudioBooks)
Best Price: $18.85
Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, this work is an illustration of the...
White FangWhite Fang
Jack London's classic companion novel to Call of the Wild is now available through Buki...
Nemesis (Agatha Christie Collection S.)Nemesis (Agatha Christie Collection S.)
Best Price: $105.44
Even the unflappable Miss Marple is astounded as she reads the letter addressed to her on...
Romola (Oxford World's Classics)Romola (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $13.91
When one starts reading a Victorian novelist, one prepares before hand to face a certain amount...

Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)Twenty Years After (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $6.79
It is twenty years after the first Musketeers saga and Athos, Aramis, Porthos and d'Artagnan...
The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)The Black Tulip (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $14.98
While The Black Tulip lacks the swashbuckling, derring-do adventures of the other Dumas novels I...
Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)Michael O'Halloran (Library of Indiana Classics)
Best Price: $12.44
I loved this story! I read it first when I was 17 or so and had already read many of the...
The Castle (Oxford World's Classics)The Castle (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $7.80
This version, like the original manuscript, ends mid-sentence. Kafka was dying of tuberculosis....
Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics)Persuasion (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $3.14
In Jane Austen's time, young women were taught that it was practically their duty to...

Cranford (Oxford World's Classics)Cranford (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $6.00
A lovely book about a lovely village of lovely people. The inspiration for BBC/Masterpiece...
The House of the Seven Gables (Oxford World's Classics)The House of the Seven Gables (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $6.69
I have never read anything quite like this book. The authors style is very different and...
This Side of Paradise (Oxford World's Classics)This Side of Paradise (Oxford World's Classics)
Best Price: $7.24
There was a time when if I used the name of the 20th century American writer Ernest Hemingway it...
  
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