Complete and Unabridged Classics

Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish writer known for his genius wit and ostentatious style. His most famous play, The Importance of Being Earnest still ...

An Englishman who came to America in 1774, Thomas Paine was a political philosopher who promoted change through revolution rather than reform. He i...

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown” The narrative that started in the first part of Henry the Fourth continues in the second part and witnes...

“What’s done cannot be undone” Regarded as Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, Macbeth revolves around the aggressive ambition of a Scottish general Ma...

One of the early comedies of Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream can be suitably called as a 'wedding play', as it presents an atmosphere of wed...

Virginia Woolf’s *To the Lighthouse *questions life and its reality. On one hand when it examines the position of women in marriage and society, it...

Mrs. Dalloway is an exemplary piece of ‘modernist literature’ in which she wonderfully incorporates her well- known narrative technique of ‘stream ...

Antigone is a Greek Tragedy written by Sophocles in 441 BC.The protagonist, Antigone is a brave and proud young woman. At the beginning of the play...

Oscar Wilde brings his enormous gifts for astute social observation and sparking prose to The Picture of Dorian Gray, his dreamlike story of a youn...

“When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?” Frankenstein or “The Modern Prometheus” is the first ...

"We like speakers to talk with us." Dale Carnegie’s book The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking, ingrained with modern speech techniques for...

This classic tale of love and passion is considered as a 'true story' and indeed a masterpiece of the great Russian novelist . Set in the glamorous...

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living is a self-help book by Dale Carnegie. Carnegie says in the preface to How to Stop Worrying and Start Living t...

“For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.” You love your job, but there are days, when no matter...

A masterpiece by J.M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World is set up in an Irish background during the late nineteenth century and led to riots ...

Maxim Gorky was a Russian writer who pioneered the socialist realism literary style of writing. He was a political activist and was highly inspired...

Jane Austen's posthumously published novel, *Northanger Abbey*, is a delightful satire of the period's Gothic novels, poking fun at romantic follie...

“Let my country die for me.” A modern retelling of Homer’s Odyssey, James Joyce’s Ulysses is touted as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth...

First Published in 1914, Dubliners is a beautiful collection of vignettes describing Irish middle class life in and around Dublin at the end of the...

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.” The second-longest play in the Shakespearean canon, Richard III is one of Shakespeare's finest ...

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” Julius Caesar, written in 1599 by William Shakespeare, is based on true historical...

“For of all creatures that breathe and move on earth none is more to be pitied than a man.” An ancient Greek poem, Homer's The Iliad is one of the ...

Treated as one of the great comedy plays of Shakespeare, this presents the main plot of obstacles that occur in the union of two lovers – Claudio a...

Moby Dick was written by Herman Melville whose writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor. This novel is a travel experience of Ishm...

Siddartha is the spiritual journey of a boy named Siddartha who lived in India during the period of Buddha.The story is based in ancient Nepal,wher...

As You Like it is a 'pastoral' comedy featuring Shakespear’s most likeable and strong female protagonist Rosalind. This is a charming comedy play i...

“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.” Written in collaboration with Samuel Crowther, my life and work i...

“Thou hast come thyself at last, hast thou?” Henry Gilbert’s Robin Hood is a wonderful rendering of the greatest British folk hero and the numerou...

Considered as the most powerful and moving of Shakespeare’s great tragedies, Othello traces the fall of a proud, dignified, but irresolute and vind...

Having run up large debts, a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby faces the prospect of losing everything he owns. Though he and his wife, Emily, ha...

“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby” Considered as the most appealing of all Shaw’s plays, Pygmalion develops around the bet betw...

Arms and the Man is one of George Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies that takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. It tells the story ...

One of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century, George Bernard Shaw was an Irish writer and political activist who won the Nobel Prize in Liter...

Hailed as the 'King of Paradox,'G.K. Chesterton was a prolific writer who made diverse contributions in different genres of literature. As for his ...

“India has never had a real sense of nationalism.” Penned by Asia's first Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore’s nationalism foregrounds his view o...

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!” The House of the Seven Gables by American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is a compelling tale of...