Complete and Unabridged Classics

“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...

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...

“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...

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...

“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...

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (September 23, 1865- November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was bor...

One of the great masters of the 19th century novel, Leo Tolstoy created a sweeping epic in War and Peace enfolding together huge events in history ...

Capital is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy and how it is the precursor of the socialist mode of production. Karl Marx propos...

Poor Aunt Miranda and Aunt Jane. When they kindly agreed to take in the ten-year old daughter of a poor relation they never expected.... Rebecca. I...

In Heart of Darkness, Charles Marlow, a manager of a Belgian ivory company, narrates his voyage aboard the steamboat *Nellie* to the Congo Free Sta...

Mansfield Park, considered to be Jane Austen's most ambitious novel, was first published in July 1814. The novel not only reflects Austen's superb ...

Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two star...

This semi-autobiography depicts the story of a young Irish boy, Stephen Dedalus and his intellectual and religious-philosophical awakening to his s...

*Madame Bovary* was the debut novel of Gustave Flaubert and depicts a beautiful young maiden, Emma Rouault who aspires to lead a wealthy, passionat...

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." 1984 revolves around the concept of omnipresent government...

Maggie,whose father owns a mill perched on the banks of the River Floss, is not the traditional archetype of feminine beauty or behavior and this c...

Published in 1847 under the pseudonym Elis Bell, Wuthering Heights is the sole novel authored by Emily Bronte.Set in the mysterious moors of Yorksh...

Based on true events of Alexander Selkirk, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe recounts the story of an Englishman who defying his father's wishes, runs...

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.” Jane Eyre was Charlotte Brontë’s first published novel, that soon earned its place amongst the gr...

Ranked among the best autobiographies, Up from Slavery documents the personal achievement of the renowned educator, Booker T. Washington in his lon...

Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, On The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was publishe...