Everyman's library

Captain Ahab's determination to find and kill the great white whale becomes an obsession driving him to disaster.

The story of Emma Bovary, the bored wife of a provincial doctor whose desires and illusions are shattered when reality catches up with her.

Traces the life of Jean Valjean, a peasant who steals a loaf of bread to feed his starving children and thereby becomes a convict.

When a penniless governess falls in love with the brooding master of Thornfield, she is unaware of the tragic events that will follow.

Prince Myshkin finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow.

An epic poem in which the poet describes his spiritual journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise--guided first by the poet Virgil and then by his beloved Beatrice--which results in a purification of his religious faith.

Charles Dickens's classic story of orphan David Copperfield growing up in nineteenth-century England.

Presents the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas about Edmond Dantes, a young sailor who is falsely imprisoned, escapes, and assumes a new identity on the island of Monte Cristo.

A collection of sixty-eight tales of mystery and horror by the nineteenth-century American author, including such stories as "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Purloined Letter." Also features a brief biography and a chronology of significant events in the writer's life.

A translation of nineteenth-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel in which the four sons of Fyodor Karamazov, a man of immoral character, must contend with a criminal investigation and with their own inner questions about justice and the existence of God after they are involved in their father's murder.