Category: Classic Literature

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

When a mysterious sea creature terrorizes the oceans, Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant Conseil, and the harpooner Ned Land embark

Completed in the early 11th century, The Tale of Genji is considered the supreme masterpiece of Japanese prose literature, and

Fyodor Dostoevsky masterfully blends realism and romanticism in this heartfelt tale of unrequited love and the human journey. Set in

Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executor of a former lover’s estate. The performance of her duties sets

Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel is a classic of 20th-century literature. It is the story of Hazel Motes,

Every tale of terror, every poem of unearthly beauty, every essay of dark philosophy — collected in one definitive volume.

Selected readings and full-cast dramatisations from across the literary and science fiction of Iain Banks Iain Banks, aka Iain M

The “dazzling, exhilarating” (San Francisco Chronicle) debut novel from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest, available for the first time as an

The 30th anniversary edition of the virtuosic, wickedly comic modern classic about the pursuit of happiness in America, with a

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity’s Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half