The Classic Literature Collection is a curated shelf of the world’s most enduring books — the works of fiction, philosophy, and poetry that have spoken to readers across cultures and centuries. It spans ancient and modern masters alike, from Homer and Marcus Aurelius to Tolstoy, Dumas, and Goethe.
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- Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen
- Moby Dick; Or, The WhaleHerman Melville
- Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoyevsky
- The OdysseyHomer
- The Mysteries of UdolphoAnn Ward Radcliffe
- Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
- Sense and SensibilityJane Austen
- Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll
- DraculaBram Stoker
- The Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 1Unknown
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeRobert Louis Stevenson
- The Complete Works of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare
- Jane Eyre: An AutobiographyCharlotte Bronte
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round TableThomas Malory
- Little WomenLouisa May Alcott
- MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot
- Roméo et JulietteWilliam Shakespeare
- The Mystery of Edwin DroodCharles Dickens
- Frankenstein; or, the Modern PrometheusMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- The Monk: A RomanceM. G. Lewis
- EloisaJean-Jacques Rousseau
- Four Arthurian RomancesChretien de Troyes
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius
- The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle
- A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway
- Manon Lescautabbe Prevost
- The Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaPhilip Sidney
- A Journey to the Centre of the EarthJules Verne
- Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Tome IAlexandre Dumas
- The Confessions of St. AugustineAugustine
- El crimen y el castigoFyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas
- Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare
- The Lives and Opinions of Eminent PhilosophersDiogenes Laertius
- The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald
- Around the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne
- Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte
- The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
- A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare
- Le cas étrange du docteur JekyllRobert Louis Stevenson
- The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoyevsky
- History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry Fielding
- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic PoemUnknown
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, CompleteMark Twain
- The Expedition of Humphry ClinkerT. Smollett
- Oedipus King of ThebesSophocles
- The IliadHomer
- The EnchiridionEpictetus
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VIIOvid
- Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain
- Voyage au Centre de la TerreJules Verne
- A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
- The Secret GardenFrances Hodgson Burnett
- The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde
- Plutarch's MoralsPlutarch
- The Birth of TragedyFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Don JuanGeorge Gordon Byron
- MetamorphosisFranz Kafka
- War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy
- The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle
- David CopperfieldCharles Dickens
- Peter PanJ. M. Barrie
- SymposiumPlato
- ApologyPlato
- UlyssesJames Joyce
- Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1Thomas Malory
- The Prince and the PauperMark Twain
- Les Trois MousquetairesAlexandre Dumas
- Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf
- Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s CourtMark Twain
- PhaedrusPlato
- Uncle Tom’s CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe
- Northanger AbbeyJane Austen
- The Call of the WildJack London
- The History of Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- PhaedoPlato
- Vanity FairWilliam Makepeace Thackeray
- Childe Harold's PilgrimageGeorge Gordon Byron
- Gulliver’s Travels into Remote NationsJonathan Swift
- The Castle of OtrantoHorace Walpole
- The SatyriconPetronius
- The Life and Adventures of Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe
- L’île mystérieuseJules Verne
- The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas
- Anne of Green GablesL. M. Montgomery
- A Doll's House: a playHenrik Ibsen
- Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens
- Thus Spake ZarathustraFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasJules Verne
- A Modest ProposalJonathan Swift
- Les MisérablesVictor Hugo
- Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy
- Bleak HouseCharles Dickens
- A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens
- The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
- Oliver TwistCharles Dickens
- Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad
- CarmillaJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce
- Tess of the d’UrbervillesThomas Hardy
- The Odysseys of HomerGeorge Chapman (translator)
- The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway
- The ArgonauticaApollonius Rhodius
- Daisy Miller Henry James
- The Complete Poetical Works of LongfellowHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Lord JimJoseph Conrad
- The Little Clay CartSudraka
- The House of the Seven GablesNathaniel Hawthorne
- The Agamemnon of AeschylusAeschylus
- Lyrical Ballads (1798)Wordsworth & Coleridge
- The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner
- The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy
- The MabinogionLady Charlotte Guest (translator)
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XVOvid
- Dombey and SonCharles Dickens
- The Story of the VolsungsEiríkr Magnússon & William Morris (translators)
- The Return of the NativeThomas Hardy
- The Iliads of HomerGeorge Chapman (translator)
- New AtlantisFrancis Bacon
- The Rime of the Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge
- An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh EpicMorris Jastrow & Albert T. Clay
- The NibelungenliedAnonymous
- The Waste LandT. S. Eliot
- PhantastesGeorge MacDonald
- Ars Amatoria; or, The Art of LoveOvid
- The Forsyte Saga John Galsworthy
- KimRudyard Kipling
- Lazarillo de Tormes Anonymous
- EvangelineHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Father GoriotHonoré de Balzac
- Alice’s Adventures Under GroundLewis Carroll
- The Rape of the Lock, and Other PoemsAlexander Pope
- Troilus and CriseydeGeoffrey Chaucer
- Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
- Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens
- Sophocles: The Seven PlaysSophocles
- The Europeans Henry James
- The Aspern Papers Henry James
- The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon Sei Shōnagon
- The Holy War John Bunyan
- What Maisie Knew Henry James
- The Characters of Theophrastus Theophrastus
- The Mother Grazia Deledda
- The Satyricon Petronius