First published in 1878, Tolstoy's masterpiece tells the story of a woman who seems to have everything: beauty, wealth, popularity and son she adores. Then she meets the impetuous officer Count Vronsky and their affair scandalises society and family.

In 1899, Kate Chopin stunned the world with The Awakening, her tale of a woman who seeks personal fulfillment in a relationship outside her tradition-bound marriage. Chopin's pioneering novel served as a touchstone for many modernist works and is con...

For more than a century, the Sherlock Holmes adventures have thrilled readers. This volume collects seven of his most challenging cases, including "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed League", "The Speckled Band, The Five Orange Pips", "The Blue C...

This volume features all the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels, Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carrolls novels, Sylvi...

First collected nearly a millennium ago, these folktales are presented as stories that the beautiful Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over 1001 consecutive nights. They include some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling: The...

Aesop's ancient Greek fables, short tales with simple morals, often featuring talking animals, are deeply embedded in Western culture. This 1916 translation by V. S. Vernon Jones was furnished with beautiful illustrations by Arthur Rackham – reproduc...

Published in 1876, this book has delighted generations of readers.

Desperate to escape his abusive father and the constraints of the civilized life, young Huck Finn fakes his death and, with the help of his slave friend Jim, embarks on a vagabond life rafting down the Mississippi River. Yet life is anything but care...

Carroll's most beloved fantasies appear here in full, unabridged form, accompanied by 85 vintage illustrations by John Tenniel from the original 1865 and 1872 editions. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland chronicles the events that follow after Alice ch...

Lewis Carroll's novels "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and "Through the Looking Glass" (first published in 1865 and 1871, respectively) have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, cleve...