Classic Books
Classic literature in eBook format.
A stark and allegorical tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England. Nathaniel Hawthorne's exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the...
The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as...
Tommy Beresford and Prudence 'Tuppence' Cowley are young, in love... and flat broke. Just after Great War, there are few jobs available and the couple are desperately short of money. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring...
Burnett begins with a spoiled and unsympathetic heroine named Mary Lennox. When Mary, a spoiled and unsympathetic child, iis orphaned she is shipped from her home in colonial India to a drab country house in Yorkshire. As she learns to tend the...
Thea Kronborg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the world. But as her path leads her ever farther from the small town she can't forget and the man she...
A London lawyer investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal that within the same person there is both an apparently good and an evil...
This innovative debut novel by British author H.G. Wells follows an unnamed scientist as he uses a time machine to travel from turn-of-the-century England into the far future. Instead of a world of gleaming technology, the explorer finds a...
Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel, continues his audacious efforts to save French aristocrats from the guillotine. Set against the backdrop of revolutionary France, this historical fiction adventure explores themes of secret identity and...
The Valley of the Moon is a novel by American writer Jack London. The valley where it is set is located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in Sonoma County, California where Jack London was a resident; he built his ranch in Glen Ellen. The story...
Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella who has an uncanny insight into human evil. His methods, unlike those of his near contemporary Sherlock Holmes, although based on observation of...
Macabre parties in isolated castles ... Gruesome murders ... Talking ravens, hellish black pits, innocents buried alive ... Prepare to be chilled and enthralled by the haunting genius of the acknowledged master of gothic horror and suspense, Edgar...
These unjustly neglected works, among the most enjoyable of Mark Twain's novels, follow Tom, Huck, and Jim as they travel across the Atlantic in a balloon, then down the Mississippi to help solve a mysterious crime. Both with the original...