The Thirty-Nine Steps
Richard Hannay, bored with London, is pulled into a web of murder, espionage, and a mysterious cipher when a stranger is killed in his flat. Pursued across Scotland, he must unmask a conspiracy to steal Britain’s secrets.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson take on twelve celebrated cases, from the Red-headed League to the Speckled Band. These stories established the detective genre and its most famous partnership.
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The Diary of a Nobody
City clerk Charles Pooter records the small triumphs and endless humiliations of suburban life in his painfully earnest diary. Grossmith’s deadpan satire of Victorian respectability is a cornerstone of English comic fiction.
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Three Men in a Boat
Three friends and a dog set out on a boating holiday up the Thames, expecting idyllic leisure and finding comic misadventure. Jerome’s rambling, self-deprecating humor has made it an enduring comic classic.
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King Solomon’s Mines
Big-game hunter Allan Quatermain leads an expedition into uncharted Africa to find a missing brother and the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon. The journey descends into tribal war and a lost kingdom.
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Flatland
A Square living in a two-dimensional world of geometric beings encounters the third dimension and struggles to imagine what lies beyond his own plane. Abbott’s mathematical satire remains a brilliant allegory of perception and social hierarchy.
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Jane Eyre
Orphaned and plain, Jane Eyre endures hardship to become a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she falls for the brooding Mr. Rochester. But his house hides a secret that will test her independence and integrity.
