Collection 'World Classic books'

Written for publication as a serial, The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of loosely-related ...

It tells the story of Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who makes a bet with his friend ...

On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione ...

This book is a humorous account of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The ...

Paradise Lost is an epic poem by English poet John Milton. The poem concerns the Biblical story of ...

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606 ...

The Tragedy of Macbeth is among the most popular of William Shakespeare's plays, as well as his ...

This book's hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two ...

The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil ...

Dramatic life story of a young woman born in a poor peasant family. After experiencing many ...

Many elements of the novel follow events in Dickens' own life, and it is probably the most ...

The action of the story takes place from Christmas Eve, 1812, when the protagonist is about seven ...

This book is one of Charles Dickens's major novels. The novel has many characters and several ...

In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a ...

The third published novel of D. H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece, tells ...

Crime and Punishment is a novel written by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. First published in a ...

The Gambler is a novel about a youngish tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian civil ...

The Scarlet Letter was one of the first mass-produced books in the United States. It was popular ...