Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts the education of an...

Windsor Castle is set amid Henry VIII’s dangerous pursuit of Anne Boleyn, where court intrigue, ambition, and forbidden love collide. As the king moves to cast aside Catherine...

A Haunting LegacyJohn and Branwen face challenges as a couple—his violent past and her unwanted pregnancy. Just when life threatens to overwhelm them, Branwen receives an...

Comfort Pease, a spirited girl in a small New England village, treasures a gold ring from her aunt. As she navigates school life, teasing, and her mother’s rules, the ring goes...

Westerfelt follows Sally Dawson, whose love for John Westerfelt is threatened by gossip, jealousy, and competing suitors in a tight-knit Southern community. As rumors spread and...

Amid the tense politics of pre–World War I Europe, an American man becomes unwittingly bound to a mysterious woman whose fate is tied to a coveted secret known as the Dark Star....

Moth and Rust: Together with Geoffrey's Wife and The Pitfall by Mary Cholmondeley is a collection of early 20th-century stories exploring love, social class, and moral complexity....

When a well-educated young socialite in 1930s England is left orphaned and unable to support herself at age twenty-two, she moves in with her eccentric relatives on their farm.

The Acharnians, one of Aristophanes’ earliest surviving comedies, is a sharp and entertaining critique of war and politics in ancient Athens. Written during the Peloponnesian...

Barry Lyndon follows the cunning rise and tragic fall of an Irish rogue who schemes his way into wealth, nobility, and high society through deception, duels, and marriage....