经典名著 Classic Masterpieces

Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers
Strong Poison - Dorothy L. Sayers
经典名著 · Dorothy L. Sayers
A gentleman detective works to exonerate a woman accused of poisoning her ex-lover.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin
经典名著 · Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin, first published in 1852, was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and a powerful catalyst for the abolitionist movement. Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel foll
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
经典名著 · Victor Hugo
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, published in 1831, is Victor Hugo's monumental historical novel set in medieval Paris. The story centers on Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer of Notr
Candide
Candide
经典名著 · Voltaire
Candide, published in 1759, is Voltaire's most famous work and a masterpiece of philosophical satire. The story follows the naive and optimistic Candide, who is taught by his tutor
Don Quixote
Don Quixote
经典名著 · Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, is Miguel de Cervantes' masterpiece and one of the most influential works in world literature. It tells the story of Alonso Qu
A Bride of a Summer’s Day - Catherine Louisa Pirkis
A Bride of a Summer’s Day - Catherine Louisa Pirkis
经典名著 · Catherine Louisa Pirkis
After her wedding, a bride asks to visit her mother’s grave, and then disappears.
A Doll's House a play - Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House a play - Henrik Ibsen
经典名著 · Henrik Ibsen
Translation of Doll's house, English translation of Norwegian original by William Archer.
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
经典名著 · Richard Hughes
"After a terrible hurricane levels their Jamaican estate, the Bas-Thorntons decide to send their children back to the safety and comfort of England. On the way their ship is set up
A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev
A House of Gentlefolk - Ivan Turgenev
经典名著 · Ivan Turgenev
After his marriage fails, a Russian nobleman returns to his family estate and falls in love with the devout daughter of his cousin, who encourages him to reconcile with his wife.
A pair of blue eyes - Thomas Hardy
A pair of blue eyes - Thomas Hardy
经典名著 · Thomas Hardy
Elfride Swancourt is the daughter of the Rector of Endelstow, a remote sea-swept parish in Corwall based on St Juliot, where Hardy began A Pair of Blue Eyes during the beginning of
A Pluralistic Universe - William James
A Pluralistic Universe - William James
经典名著 · William James
Lectures on the advantages of using radical empiricism (pluralism) when trying to relate entities in the absolute to the absolute.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce
经典名著 · James Joyce
Stephen Dedalus grows up in Dublin, feeling different from the other boys. His childhood and adolescence are shaped by bullying, his father's weaknesses and the growing realization
A Room with a View - E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
A Room with a View - E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
经典名著 · E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. He
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
经典名著 · Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's country
Adam’s Breed - Radclyffe Hall
Adam’s Breed - Radclyffe Hall
经典名著 · Radclyffe Hall
The child of Italian immigrants struggles to find meaning in Edwardian-era London.
Ajax - Sophocles
Ajax - Sophocles
经典名著 · Sophocles
Brought boldly to life by Herbert Golder and Richard Pevear's translation and contextualized by Herbert Golder's eloquent introduction, this early Sophoclean tragedy tells the stor
Allan Quatermain Stories - H. Rider Haggard
Allan Quatermain Stories - H. Rider Haggard
经典名著 · H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon’s Mines was published in September 1885, becoming an immediate best seller by tapping into people’s excitement for the unknown: in this case, the unexplored regions of
Almayer’s Folly - Joseph Conrad
Almayer’s Folly - Joseph Conrad
经典名著 · Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's
An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad
An Outcast of the Islands - Joseph Conrad
经典名著 · Joseph Conrad
Conrad’s Second novel (An Outcast of the Islands) is about the colonial enterprise and their faults while they take a region. The characters are complex and deep. It makes for a gr
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
经典名著 · Leo Tolstoy
Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellio