Complete and Unabridged Classics

“For of all creatures that breathe and move on earth none is more to be pitied than a man.” An ancient Greek poem, Homer's The Iliad is one of the ...

Treated as one of the great comedy plays of Shakespeare, this presents the main plot of obstacles that occur in the union of two lovers – Claudio a...

Moby Dick was written by Herman Melville whose writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor. This novel is a travel experience of Ishm...

Siddartha is the spiritual journey of a boy named Siddartha who lived in India during the period of Buddha.The story is based in ancient Nepal,wher...

As You Like it is a 'pastoral' comedy featuring Shakespear’s most likeable and strong female protagonist Rosalind. This is a charming comedy play i...

“There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.” Written in collaboration with Samuel Crowther, my life and work i...

“Thou hast come thyself at last, hast thou?” Henry Gilbert’s Robin Hood is a wonderful rendering of the greatest British folk hero and the numerou...

Having run up large debts, a Kentucky farmer named Arthur Shelby faces the prospect of losing everything he owns. Though he and his wife, Emily, ha...

“Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby” Considered as the most appealing of all Shaw’s plays, Pygmalion develops around the bet betw...

Arms and the Man is one of George Bernard Shaw's most glittering comedies that takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. It tells the story ...

One of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century, George Bernard Shaw was an Irish writer and political activist who won the Nobel Prize in Liter...

Hailed as the 'King of Paradox,'G.K. Chesterton was a prolific writer who made diverse contributions in different genres of literature. As for his ...

“India has never had a real sense of nationalism.” Penned by Asia's first Nobel laureate, Rabindranath Tagore’s nationalism foregrounds his view o...

“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!” The House of the Seven Gables by American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is a compelling tale of...

At the insistence of Swami Anand, Gandhi ji set upon to record his autobiography, covering his life from early childhood to 1920. The Story of My E...

Baroness Emmuska Orczy (September 23, 1865- November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was bor...

One of the great masters of the 19th century novel, Leo Tolstoy created a sweeping epic in War and Peace enfolding together huge events in history ...

Capital is a critical analysis of capitalism as political economy and how it is the precursor of the socialist mode of production. Karl Marx propos...

Poor Aunt Miranda and Aunt Jane. When they kindly agreed to take in the ten-year old daughter of a poor relation they never expected.... Rebecca. I...

In Heart of Darkness, Charles Marlow, a manager of a Belgian ivory company, narrates his voyage aboard the steamboat *Nellie* to the Congo Free Sta...

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.” The last completed novel by Jane Austen, Persuasion is perhaps the m...

Mansfield Park, considered to be Jane Austen's most ambitious novel, was first published in July 1814. The novel not only reflects Austen's superb ...

Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility is a wonderfully entertaining tale of flirtation and folly that revolves around two star...

This semi-autobiography depicts the story of a young Irish boy, Stephen Dedalus and his intellectual and religious-philosophical awakening to his s...

“With me you could have been another person” A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen holds the distinction of being the world’s most performed play. The pla...

*Madame Bovary* was the debut novel of Gustave Flaubert and depicts a beautiful young maiden, Emma Rouault who aspires to lead a wealthy, passionat...

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." 1984 revolves around the concept of omnipresent government...

Maggie,whose father owns a mill perched on the banks of the River Floss, is not the traditional archetype of feminine beauty or behavior and this c...

Published in 1847 under the pseudonym Elis Bell, Wuthering Heights is the sole novel authored by Emily Bronte.Set in the mysterious moors of Yorksh...

Based on true events of Alexander Selkirk, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe recounts the story of an Englishman who defying his father's wishes, runs...

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.” Jane Eyre was Charlotte Brontë’s first published novel, that soon earned its place amongst the gr...

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel written by Charles Dickens that beautifully depic...

Ranked among the best autobiographies, Up from Slavery documents the personal achievement of the renowned educator, Booker T. Washington in his lon...

Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, On The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was publishe...