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Darker, weirder and shorter than its flashy younger brother Apocalypse Now, this modernist classic follows a riverboat captain and a reluctant assassin up the Congo River.

Frederick Douglass’s memoir depicts his life as a slave, from his birth into southern slavery to his inspiring fight to learn how to read, escape as a free man and become a leader of the abolitioni

In the sequel to Little Men, we visit the Plumefield students 10 years later, watching them encounter all the pitfalls of young adulthood.

This epic saga of Russian life in the days of the Napoleonic wars centers on the loves and losses of five aristocratic families.

A man condemns love and marriage and then gets married with predictably unfortunate results in what Tolstoy intended to be a persuasive argument for abstinence.

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison pulled off the incredible feat of outlining an entire democratic government with rhetorical and syntactical flair in this collection of 85 articles an

A group of adventurers led by English fortune hunter Allan Quartermain follow a mysterious map on a quest to uncover the legendary mines of the biblical King Solomon.

Beloved children's classics such as “The Ugly Duckling,” “Thumbelina,”  "The Little Match Girl," and “The Princess and the Pea.” By turns heartbreaking and joyous, these are the stor

Described by Nobel laureate Elias Canetti as, "one of the few great and perfect works of the poetic imagination," this short fable about a man who wakes up one morning transformed into a

Spoiler alert: there are no songs, and the slippers are silver. Luckily, there’s still a Yellow Brick Road and flying monkeys.

Huck Finn fakes his own death to escape a cushy life with a kind widow because he is sick of wearing shoes. Back on the river where he belongs, he teams up with an escaped slave named Jim.

Utterson and Enfield are worried about their friend, Dr. Jekyll, who has been spending his time on a mysterious research project.

A sobering reminder of America’s abhorrent past of slavery, the legacy of which has reverberated its legacy well into the present day, Solomon Northup’s memoir is a fully engrossing chronicle of a

Prince Myshkin, the last of his royal bloodline, suffers from epilepsy and a trusting nature. His saintlike purity of soul makes him suspect in the eyes of sinful St.

When Professor Lidenbrock comes across an ancient manuscript coded with a mysterious message, he experiences it as a personal calling.