Classics (Antiquity)
The Garden Party
The Garden Party is a captivating collection of short stories by Katherine Mansfield, one of New Zealand's most esteemed literary figures. T…
Prometheus Bound
"Prometheus Bound" is the only complete tragedy of the Prometheia trilogy, traditionally assumed to be the work of Aeschylus. Jupi…
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to ca…
A Tale of Two Cities
A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. - Summary by Brad Filippone
Electra
Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hu…
Lysis
Lysis is a philosophical dialogue by Plato that delves into the nature of friendship and love, exploring the complex relationships between i…
Flappers and Philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers marks F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut collection of short stories, capturing the spirit of the Roaring Twenties. This …
The Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …
Little Women
Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion con…
De Anima
On the Soul (Greek Περὶ Ψυχῆς (Perì Psūchês), Latin De Anima) is a major treatise by Aristotle on the nature of living things. …
The Pickwick Papers
A sportsman who doesn't hunt; a poet who doesn't write; a lover with no one to love; all three are devoted to their cheerful and benevolent …
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery's classic children's novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can…
The Idiot
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Ru…
Eryxias
Eryxias is a philosophical dialogue that delves into the nature of wealth and its true value. Set against the backdrop of ancient philosophi…
Salome
The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the B…
Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis, also known as The Golden Ass, is one of the very few novels of the Ancient World that survived to our days; one of the tw…
Antigone
This is the final installment in Sophocles' Theban Plays, following Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus's daughter Antigone deliber…
Last Days of Pompeii
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culmi…
Sherlock Holmes
Join the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal companion Dr. Watson as they solve some of the most intriguing mysteries. This cl…