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Mystery anthology

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

A dozen mysteries launched from 221B Baker Street — disguises, deductions, and danger at every turn.

Speculative adventure

The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

A scientist hurtles 800,000 years into the future, only to find humanity split into two species — one fragile, the other predatory.

Sea voyage classic

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

Young Jim Hawkins sets sail for buried gold, but the ship's cook has plans of his own.

Romance and sharp wit

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy clash over pride, class, and first impressions in Austen's sharpest comedy of manners.

Gothic science fiction

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Victor Frankenstein gives life to a creature and then abandons it — setting off a chain of grief, revenge, and ruin.

Fantastical nonsense

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

A girl tumbles down a rabbit hole into a world of mad tea parties, a grinning cat, and one very furious queen.

Revolutionary drama

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

London and Paris, love and sacrifice, during the French Revolution — ending with one of literature's most famous last acts.

Psychological thriller

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

A respected doctor and a violent stranger share more than a London address in Stevenson's chilling study of dual nature.

Alien invasion epic

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

Martian cylinders crash into the English countryside, and towering tripods begin to exterminate everything in their path.

Decadent gothic

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

A young man stays eternally beautiful while his portrait absorbs every sin — Wilde's gothic fable of vanity and corruption.

Oceanic obsession

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Captain Ahab drags his crew across the ocean in a monomaniacal hunt for the white whale that took his leg.

Ancient epic

The Odyssey

Homer

Odysseus defies monsters, gods, and the sea itself on a ten-year voyage home from the Trojan War.

Coming-of-age classic

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

An orphan's mysterious fortune pulls him from the marshes to London — but his true benefactor is not who he thinks.

Gothic romance

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

A fiercely independent governess falls for her brooding employer — unaware of the secret locked in his attic.

Supernatural mystery

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

A spectral hound haunts the Baskerville family on the foggy Devon moors — Holmes's most atmospheric case.