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Sir Robert Chiltern has a glittering political career, a fortune, and the adoration of his idealistic wife, Gertrude. But when the enigmatic Mrs. Cheveley arrives in London, she brings with her a letter that could destroy everything. Years ago, a young and ambitious...
First published in 1855 as a slim volume of twelve untitled poems, Leaves of grass was unlike anything readers had ever seen—poetry written in free verse that broke every rule, celebrating the beauty of the human body, the spirit of democracy, and the connection between...
There's a certain joy in bending the rules—and Tom Sawyer is a master of the art. Whether he's convincing the neighborhood boys to whitewash a fence for him, skipping school to go swimming, or chasing adventure with his friend Huck Finn, Tom turns the sleepy town of St....
Eugene Irtenev is a young landowner with a promising future—a sensible marriage, a thriving estate, a life of respectable order. Before his wedding, he ended a brief affair with Stepanida, a beautiful peasant woman. It meant nothing. It was over. Then Stepanida returns...
In a world where the gap between the haves and have-nots has become a chasm, where the homeless freeze in the shadows of luxury towers, and where policymakers speak of the poor in tidy statistics and abstract fiscal projections, Jonathan Swift's masterpiece of ironic...
Beware. His thirst is eternal. When young English lawyer Jonathan Harker travels to the remote Carpathian Mountains to finalize a property transaction with the mysterious Count Dracula, he soon realizes he has become a prisoner in a castle of horrors. Narrowly escaping...
He trusted no one.He betrayed everyone.He never surrendered. The year is 1851. In the rugged mountains of the Caucasus, a legendary warrior flees from both sides. Hadji Murad—feared by the Russians, hunted by his own commander—walks into the enemy camp with a desperate...
Before War and Peace, there was the war itself. In the frozen forests of the Caucasus, a young artillery officer waits for dawn. Tomorrow, his platoon will cut timber under the shadow of enemy rifles. Tonight, he watches his men—the meek, the reckless, the quietly...
Henry David Thoreau's revolutionary essay, written in protest against slavery and the Mexican-American War, gives us a message that transcends any single era: when government becomes the agent of injustice, what is the duty of the conscientious citizen? Thoreau's answer...
When the brilliant but hubristic Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret to animating life, he assembles a creature from stolen body parts and brings it to life. Horrified by his grotesque creation, he abandons it, unleashing a chain of tragic events that will haunt...
Seventeen-year-old Masha has lost her mother and her hope—until Sergei Mikhailych, a family friend twice her age, walks back into her life. His quiet presence awakens something in her: first friendship, then love, then the dizzying belief that marriage will be an...
In 1845, Henry David Thoreau walked away from the clutter of civilization and built a cabin on the shores of Walden Pond. For two years, he cultivated beans, watched the seasons turn, and kept an account of his experiment in simple living. The result is not a memoir but...
Ivan Ilych has it all: a respectable position, a proper marriage, a comfortable home. He has navigated life with impeccable taste, never straying from the path laid out for him by society. He is, by every measure, a successful man. Then he falls from a ladder while...
Hermia is in love with Lysander, but her father demands she marry Demetrius. When the two young lovers flee into the woods, they are followed by the spurned Helena, who dotes on Demetrius, and a troupe of bumbling workmen rehearsing a play. But they are not alone....
Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, has been betrayed. Twelve years ago, his treacherous brother Antonio, aided by the King of Naples, usurped his throne and set him adrift at sea with his infant daughter, Miranda. They were cast upon a lonely island, a place of...
Shakespeare’s longest and most psychologically probing play, Hamlet stands as a landmark of Western literature. The tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, driven to avenge his father’s murder, is at once a thrilling drama of political intrigue and a profound meditation on...
They are the world's most famous lovers. Their names are synonymous with romance. But their story is one of heartbreak. In a city torn apart by a generations-old feud, two young people from enemy families meet by chance and fall in love at first sight. In the space of...
For over four centuries, Shakespeare's Sonnets have stood as the most celebrated and enigmatic collection of poems in the English language. Published in 1609, without the author's apparent consent, these poems form an intimate and complex meditation on the nature of...
He is the Moor of Venice: a celebrated general, a foreigner, a man of dignity and power who has won the heart of the gentle Desdemona. Their marriage defies her father, scandalizes society, and promises a future of perfect love. But in the shadows lurks Iago. Passed...
Blood. Power. Prophecy. Macbeth is Shakespeare's darkest and most blood-soaked tragedy. Driven by an obsessive love and a shared lust for power, Lord and Lady Macbeth commit the ultimate crime: the murder of their king. But the act that was meant to bring them glory...
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