Complete and Unabridged Classics

The return of the native is widely recognized to be one of Thomas Hardy's most representative works. In this tale doomed love, passion, estrangemen...

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...

Ivanhoe – a historical romance marked the beginning of Sir Walter Scott's change of focus from Scotland to England. The writer, born in Scotland, h...

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...

This work is intended to furnish the student and practitioner with an accurate view of the anatomy of the human body, and more especially the appli...

Lord Jim was written by the polish novelist and short-story writer Joseph Conrad, a great revolutionary who was involved in many movements in his t...

“The father of modern science fiction”, Well’s The Time Machine was hailed as a masterpiece when it was published. The novel’s appeal lies in its a...

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...

Edger Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston where his mother had been employed as an actress. Elizabeth Arnold Poe died in Richmond on Dece...

“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...

“Love sought is good, but give unsought is better.” A comical tale of unrequited love and the pain of separation, twelfth night is centred around...

“Every trail has its end... every calamity brings its lesson!” Considered the first major American novelist, James Fenimore Cooper is renowned for ...

“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...

“O, what a rogue and pleasant slave am I!”*Hamlet *is acclaimed as one of the most important and influential works of world literature. Drenched in...

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...

“Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows.” Published in 1886, The Mayor of Casterbridge is one of Thomas Hardy’s famou...

This novel, universally acclaimed as a 'portrait of war', is known for its unique amalgamation of elements of naturalism, impressionism and symboli...

“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...