FICTION / Classics
Featured — award winners and classics first, when available. Use “Show different books” for a new selection.
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The Good Earth
The Time Machine
Sense and Sensibility
Through the Looking-Glass
Der Proceß
The Woman in White
Pride and Prejudice
A Christmas Carol
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
To Kill a Mockingbird
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Wind in the Willows
La Peste
Inferno
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories]
The Sign of Four
Tender is the Night
Middlemarch
The Great Gatsby
Emma
Oliver Twist
Dubliners
Kate Greenaway's Original Drawings for The Snow Queen
Novels (Pride and Prejudice / Sense and Sensibility)
The History of Tom Jones
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire
The Outsiders
An American Tragedy
Giovanni's Room
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