Novellas
A Christmas Carol
Life: it will hurt you sooner or later. You can respond one way or the other: with faith in compassi..
$9.99
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet is the first of four full-length novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the b..
$9.99
A Tedious Story (From An Old Man's Journal)
Influenced by the death of his brother Nicolay from tuberculosis, Chekhov’s novel..
$9.99
An Anonymous Story
An Anonymous Story is a novella published in 1893 that has also been translated as The Story of a No..
$9.99
Anthem
Anthem is set in a dystopian future Dark Age in which totalitarianism has extinguished individuality..
$9.99
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street
In an October 1939 radio broadcast Winston Churchill described his difficulty in understanding the a..
$7.99
Billy Budd, Sailor
In 1886, after writing poetry exclusively for 30 years, Herman Melville began work on a story about ..
$9.99
Candide, or the Optimism
Is this the best of all possible worlds? The title character in Voltaire’s classic novel, Candide, d..
$9.99
Heart of Darkness
Aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames, Marlow, the narrator of Heart of Darkness, tells a story..
$9.99
In the Penal Colony
“In the Penal Colony” centers on the use of an unusual instrument of punishment invented ..
$7.99
My Life: The Story of a Provincial
“My Life: The Story of a Provincial” (1896) is a novella that tells the story of Misail Poloznev, a ..
$9.99
Siddhartha
Siddhartha, published in 1922, tells the story of a young man who undertakes a journey of self-disco..
$9.99
The Awakening
The Awakening is one of the first American novels that focused on women’s issues and is now seen as ..
$9.99
The Call of the Wild
The hero of The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a large St. Bernard-Scotch Collie named Buck, who..
$9.99
The Dead
“The Dead” is a long short story by James Joyce that appears as the last item in Dubliners. T..
$7.99
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
The Death of Ivan Ilyitch is a novella by Leo Tolstoy written not long after his religious awakening..
$9.99
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
In “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” a young man from the south, John T. Unger, is sent north to a bo..
$9.99
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man was the fifth novel by H. G. Wells and the third of his remarkable series of five ..
$9.99
The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis tells the tale of a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, who one day wakes up t..
$9.99
The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four is the second of four full-length novels featuring the brilliant Sherlock Holme..
$9.99
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
It’s rare that a book’s title becomes a staple of popular usage in the way that the phrase “Jekyll a..
$9.99
The Thirty-Nine Steps
The Thirty-Nine Steps is a classic political thriller and one of the earliest examples of the “man-o..
$9.99
The Time Machine
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is a science fiction novel published in 1895 that postulated the noti..
$9.99
The Torrents of Spring
"The Torrents of Spring," a novella published in 1926, is a hilarious satire on the romantic and lit..
$9.99
Featured
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which articulated the rights of citizens..
$9.99
The Awakening
The Awakening is one of the first American novels that focused on women’s issues and is now seen as ..
$9.99
The Business of Being a Woman
From the author's introduction..."The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain..
$9.99
The Subjection of Women
In his essay “On the Subjection of Women” John Stuart Mill wrote at length about the moral, legal an..
$9.99
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is a groundbreaking feminist trea..
$11.99
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Published in 1845, Woman in the Nineteenth Century is considered the first major feminist work in th..
$11.99