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A public-domain classic on comic storytelling, adventure, verbal wit, nested tales, and elegant fantasy.

A public-domain classic on Norse gods, heroes, sagas, Valhalla, Ragnarok, folklore, and mythology.

A public-domain classic on archaeology, prehistory, stone tools, human origins, and early material culture.

A public-domain classic on witchcraft, superstition, demonology, magic, law, folklore, and skepticism.

A public-domain classic on lost worlds, strange metallic intelligence, scientific romance, adventure, and cosmic mystery.

A public-domain classic on South American travel, romance, political unrest, landscape, and freedom.

A public-domain classic on love, secrecy, social pressure, memory, and psychological realism.

A public-domain classic on individualism, art, poverty, freedom, charity, and social criticism.

A Hardy novel of inheritance, architecture, modern technology, divided faith, romance, and uncertainty.

A satirical country-house novel of eccentric talkers, reform schemes, politics, learning, and comic argument.

Aphra Behn’s influential novella of slavery, colonial violence, honor, love, betrayal, and royal identity.

The first A. J. Raffles stories: gentleman burglary, friendship, sport, risk, disguise, and moral ambiguity.

A bold seventeenth-century utopian romance mixing science, empire, satire, gender, and speculative imagination.

A sensation novel of marriage, legal injustice, investigation, female agency, secrets, and courtroom memory.

A Barsetshire novel of courtship, loyalty, ambition, family pressure, social position, and moral patience.

A brilliant Restoration comedy of wit, marriage bargaining, inheritance, manners, desire, and social performance.

An early space romance of planetary travel, scientific adventure, satire, empire, and cosmic imagination.

An early Hardy novel of love, hesitation, class mobility, rural Cornwall, and romantic misrecognition.

Stevenson’s sequel to Kidnapped, mixing Scottish history, legal peril, romance, exile, and adventure.

An early Alcott novel about marriage, temperament, self-knowledge, duty, desire, and emotional education.

A comic American childhood classic about mischief, imagination, family, school, status, and small-town life.

A tropical castaway romance about childhood, survival, innocence, nature, isolation, and awakening desire.

A children’s historical adventure of the English Civil War, survival, disguise, loyalty, and woodland life.

An Elizabethan prose romance of pastoral disguise, political counsel, love, virtue, rhetoric, and adventure.