Joseph Conrad's 1904 adventure novel, set amid the mist-covered mountains of a fictional South American republic, spins a colorful tale of capitalist exploitation and rebellion. The story begins halfway through the revolution, employing flashbacks and glimpses of the future to depict the lure of silver and its effects on men — corrupting and destroying some, revealing the strengths of others. Conrad's deep moral consciousness and masterful narrative technique are at their best in Nostromo,...

"The tragedy of tragedies." —Wang Guowei"['The Dream of the Red Chamber'] is to the Chinese very much what 'The Brothers Karamazov' is to Russian and 'In Search of Lost Time' is to French literature… It is beyond question one of the great novels of all literature." —Anthony West“'The Dream of the Red Chamber' and 'The Tale of Genji' are the two greatest works of prose fiction in all the history of literature." —Kenneth Rexroth"A masterpiece." —Frederic Wakeman"...

"The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country." —Henry James"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." —Malcolm Cowley"There could be no more perfect work of the American imagination than 'The Scarlet Letter'”. —D. H. Lawrence"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective — wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the ...

This book contains the complete Edgar Allan Poe’s tales in the chronological order of their original publication.Here you can also find the two unfinished tales "The Journal of Julius Rodman" and "The Light-House".

Here you can find our list of the 100 greatest novels of all time.

"One of humanity’s most impressive achievements — perhaps even its supreme achievement — in the art of prose fiction." —Ronald Hingley"Dostoyevsky’s most confused and violent novel, and his most satisfyingly 'tragic' work." —Joyce Carol Oates"Out of Shakespeare there is no more exciting reading." —Virginia Woolf“Demons” is the third of Dostoyevsky’s five major novels. It is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray whic...

«The Divine Comedy» is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature.

Dark allegory describes the narrator’s journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region. Masterly blend of adventure, character development, psychological penetration. Considered by many Conrad’s finest, most enigmatic story.

"One of the comic gems of the English language." —Robert McCrum"[Jerome saw] that one of the funniest things a human being has is his conscience." —V. S. PritchettMartyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a ‘T’. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks — not to mention the de...

"I do not say there is no character as well-drawn in Shakespeare [as D’Artagnan]. I do say there is none that I love so wholly." —Robert Louis Stevenson"A masterpiece which remains as fresh and living as if it were written yesterday." —Jean Lucas-Dubreton"Dumas had genius of a certain kind — the genius that comes of vigour and a sense of the dramatic." —André MauroisOne of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tell the ...

"One of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world." —Upton Sinclair"The greatest of all novels." —Leo Tolstoy"Hugo is unquestionably the most powerful talent that has appeared in France in the nineteenth century." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky"I sobbed and wailed and thought [books] were the greatest things." —Susan Sontag«Les Misérables» is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in ...

"The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." —E. M. Forster"[Lawrence] was a language, a setting, a world entirely of his own… He was, like all true poetry, against tepid living and tepid loves… [giving] full expression to the gestures of passion." —Anaïs Nin"Lawrence is the most Dostoevskian of English novelists, in whose best work conflicting ideological positions are brought into play and set up against each other in dialogue that is never simply or finally resol...