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Count Dracula preys on London by night while a small band led by Professor Van Helsing races to destroy the vampire before his curse spreads.

Born in the Yukon wild, a fierce wolfdog passes through the hands of cruel and kind masters on a hard road from the wilderness toward trust and home.

A young scientist creates life from dead matter, then abandons his creature - with tragic, far-reaching consequences.

Amid the glitter and excess of Jazz Age Long Island, the mysterious Jay Gatsby chases an impossible dream of winning back Daisy Buchanan.

Professor Aronnax is swept aboard Captain Nemo's submarine Nautilus for an extraordinary - and perilous - voyage through the ocean's depths.

The lives and loves of five aristocratic families are swept up in the turmoil of Napoleon's invasion of Russia.

Alice tumbles down a rabbit hole into a nonsensical world of talking creatures, riddles, and a very cross Queen of Hearts.

Recalled to life after eighteen years in the Bastille, Doctor Manette and his daughter Lucie are drawn into the turmoil of the French Revolution, where a dissolute lawyer's love leads him to the ultimate act of sacrifice.

Sharp-tongued Elizabeth Bennet spars with the proud, wealthy Mr. Darcy, trading wounded pride and hasty judgment for something far closer to love.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to the fog-bound moors of Devon to unravel a centuries-old curse and the spectral hound said to hunt the Baskerville line.

From a cruel stepfather's household to the counting-houses of London, young David Copperfield claws his way from an unhappy childhood toward independence, friendship, and love.

As the French and Indian War rages through the New York wilderness, the scout Hawkeye and his Mohican companions race to protect two sisters from ambush and betrayal.

A tortoise outpaces a hare, a boy cries wolf once too often, and a crow learns the price of flattery in this timeless collection of animal fables and their morals.

When a shot rings out behind the locked door of Red House and a stranger turns up dead, amateur sleuth Antony Gillingham sets out to catch a killer hiding in plain sight.

Raised in the Sierra wilderness by his old prizefighter father, Pat Glendon is a heavyweight of freakish natural power and no appetite at all for the ring. Pulled down into a fight game rotten with fixed bouts and easy money, he keeps his innocence just long enough to expose the whole racket - and to win the newspaperwoman who watched him do it.

A married aristocrat and mother, Anna Karenina, falls into a passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky, setting off a chain of events that scandalizes St. Petersburg society and leads toward tragedy. Woven through her story is that of Konstantin Levin, a restless landowner searching for meaning through work, faith, and love. Tolstoy's sweeping portrait of Imperial Russia is considered one of the greatest novels ever written, a profound exploration of marriage, desire, and the search for a meaningful life.

Assembled from a dead man's papers, a sculptor's fevered dreams, and a police inspector's account of a ritual in the Louisiana swamps, this story pieces together evidence of something vast and ancient stirring beneath the Pacific. As the narrator's uncle's research draws him deeper into the mystery, he begins to understand that Cthulhu, a cosmic entity older than humanity, lies dreaming in the sunken city of R'lyeh, waiting for the stars to align. Lovecraft's most influential tale established the "cosmic horror" that bears his name, and remains the cornerstone of the Cthulhu Mythos.

A cautionary tale narrated by a French archaeologist traveling through Spain, Carmen tells the story of Don José, a soldier undone by his obsessive love for the fiery, free-spirited Romani woman Carmen. Drawn into a life of smuggling and crime for her sake, José finds that Carmen's refusal to be possessed by anyone leads them both toward a tragic reckoning. Mérimée's tightly wound novella of passion, jealousy, and fatal desire later inspired Bizet's celebrated opera.

Compiled as a schoolbook anthology by Lemuel Arthur Pittenger, this collection gathers ten classic short stories by some of the finest writers of the form: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Frank R. Stockton, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. Alongside the stories themselves, Pittenger provides a substantial introduction on the history and craft of the short story, plus notes, author biographies, and critical apparatus for each selection, making this both a literary collection and a study guide to the form.

Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished former student in St. Petersburg, convinces himself that a great man is above ordinary morality and murders a pawnbroker to test the theory. What follows is not the story of a crime solved by others, but a mind unraveling under its own guilt, as Raskolnikov is drawn toward confession, redemption, and the possibility of grace by the suffering and faith of those around him. Dostoevsky's landmark novel of conscience and psychological torment remains one of literature's most searching portraits of guilt.

Respectable London lawyer Gabriel Utterson grows uneasy over his old friend Dr. Henry Jekyll's association with the sinister Edward Hyde, a man whose mere presence seems to inspire revulsion. As a string of violent incidents draws Utterson deeper into the mystery, he begins to suspect a connection between the two men that defies reason. Stevenson's classic novella of a divided self remains one of literature's most enduring explorations of the duality of human nature, and gave the world an enduring shorthand for a person with two very different sides.

A priceless yellow diamond, looted from an Indian temple and bequeathed under mysterious circumstances to young Rachel Verinder, vanishes from her room on the night of her birthday. As a string of witnesses, servants, suitors, and a celebrated detective each offer their own account of what happened, the truth proves far stranger and more personal than anyone suspects. Related in first person by a rotating cast of narrators, Collins's ingenious puzzle is widely considered the first great detective novel in the English language.

An Antarctic expedition led by Miskatonic University uncovers the frozen remains of unearthly creatures, and behind them, the ruins of an impossibly ancient city carved into the mountains. As geologist William Dyer pieces together what happened to a scouting party that went missing among the peaks, he uncovers a history of Earth that predates humanity by hundreds of millions of years, and a warning about what still sleeps within the ice. One of Lovecraft's most ambitious works, this novella expands the cosmic horror of the Cthulhu Mythos into a full scientific expedition narrative.

Invalided home from the front, Captain Arthur Hastings is invited to convalesce at Styles Court, the country estate of his friend's wealthy stepmother, Emily Inglethorp. When she is found poisoned in her locked bedroom, suspicion falls on nearly everyone in the household, and Hastings turns to a chance-met acquaintance staying in the nearby village: a retired Belgian police officer named Hercule Poirot. Agatha Christie's debut novel introduced the world to Poirot, his little grey cells, and the meticulous fair-play puzzle-plotting that would define an entire genre.

In 1909, a German-Jewish immigrant named Oscar Slater was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of an elderly woman in Glasgow, on evidence that Arthur Conan Doyle came to believe was deeply flawed. In this work of nonfiction advocacy, Doyle lays out the case against Slater point by point, exposing the errors, biases, and procedural failures that led to his conviction, and argues forcefully for his exoneration. Written with the same close, methodical reasoning Doyle gave Sherlock Holmes, this real-world investigation helped bring about Slater's eventual release after nearly two decades in prison.

Eight years after breaking off her engagement to a young naval officer on the advice of family and friends, Anne Elliot is now twenty-seven, and quietly resigned to a life of regret. When Captain Frederick Wentworth returns to her circle, now successful and still unmarried, Anne must navigate old wounds, new rivals, and her own persistent feelings, all while wondering if it is too late for a second chance. The last novel Austen completed, Persuasion is her most autumnal and emotionally mature work, a story of patience, constancy, and the courage to hope again.

The first volume of the celebrated "Raven Edition" of Poe's collected works, opening with biographical and critical essays by James Russell Lowell and Nathaniel Parker Willis before turning to eight of Poe's own tales. Ranging from the ratiocinative brilliance of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" to the wild imagination of "The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaall" and "MS. Found in a Bottle," this volume showcases the breadth of Poe's genius across detective fiction, science fiction, and the macabre.

The second volume of the "Raven Edition" gathers many of Poe's most celebrated and frequently anthologized tales: "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "William Wilson" appear alongside the detective triumph "The Purloined Letter" and other tales of horror, obsession, and the uncanny. Complete with the author's own explanatory notes, this volume represents Poe at the height of his powers as the master of American gothic fiction.

Eleven early cases for the fastidious Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, narrated by his faithful companion Captain Hastings. From a stolen diamond and a kidnapped prime minister to a missing millionaire and a will that vanishes without a trace, each story showcases Poirot's celebrated "little grey cells" at work on a fresh puzzle. Collected here in their original 1924 magazine form, these stories capture Christie's detective near the start of his long career, already brilliant, vain, and utterly unmistakable.

Restless and broke after the war, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley form a partnership offering their services to "do anything, go anywhere." Their first job pulls them into a dangerous conspiracy surrounding a missing young woman, a set of vanished government papers, and a mysterious mastermind known only as Mr. Brown. Introducing Christie's spirited detective duo Tommy and Tuppence, this fast-paced adventure blends espionage thriller with classic mystery in one of her earliest and liveliest novels.

Adventurer Anthony Cade takes on a simple courier job delivering a set of memoirs to a London publisher, only to find himself tangled in blackmail, stolen jewels, and a plot involving the fictional Balkan state of Herzoslovakia. When a house party at the country estate of Chimneys turns to murder, Superintendent Battle must untangle a web of secret identities and hidden pasts before the killer strikes again. Blending country-house mystery with international intrigue, this early Christie novel is a lighthearted, fast-moving puzzle full of disguises and double-crosses.

The book that made Sherlock Holmes a household name, this collection gathers twelve of his most celebrated early cases, narrated as always by his loyal friend Dr. Watson. From "A Scandal in Bohemia," in which Holmes meets his match in the cunning Irene Adler, to the eerie puzzle of "The Speckled Band" and the everyday mysteries of a stolen goose and a vanished bridegroom, these stories established the template for the modern detective story. Illustrated with the original artwork, this is the collection that launched the world's most famous consulting detective.

A wealthy young landowner, Eugene Irtenev, marries happily and settles into respectable country life, but finds himself unable to break free of an obsessive entanglement with a peasant woman from his past. As his guilt and desire pull him toward ruin, Tolstoy examines with unflinching honesty the destructive power of sexual obsession. Written around 1889 but withheld from publication during Tolstoy's lifetime out of concern for how it might be received, The Devil appears here with both endings the author considered, translated into English for the first time by Aylmer Maude.

159 years after humanity sealed itself inside massive dome cities, the wastelands beyond are ruled by abandoned machines and forgotten experiments. Among them are the Endura - biomechanical hybrids erased from history and condemned as monsters. P-9-6-7, a feared Endura enforcer, begins experiencing the collapse of his silicon mind as buried human consciousness resurfaces inside him. Guided by an unexplained signal drawing him toward the dome city of Preeminence. Inside the dome, Detective Kamoy investigates a violent incident that points to an impossible truth: something has crossed the supposedly impenetrable barrier from the outside. As political conspiracies, buried histories, and hidden passageways converge beneath the city, both hunter and detective are pulled toward a revelation capable of destroying everything humanity believes about the world beyond the domes.