The Wind in the Willows
Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger share gentle adventures along the riverbank and in the Wild Wood. When the irrepressible Toad’s motorcar obsession lands him in trouble, his friends must rescue both his home and his good name.
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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.
